11/18/2023 0 Comments Atl braves score![]() Along with the fact the Braves scored nine runs to win Friday, they also got great pitching – again. Yes, we’re sort of burying the lead here. Let’s not, however, forget the Braves’ pitching. Opposing pitchers must have nightmares about facing this team. And there is an inevitability that at some point a home run is coming, just like it happened Friday night. When Ronald Acuna gets on first base with a walk, as he did Friday night, or a hit, you might as well put him on second base, as he did Friday night. The team leads the National League in runs scored, runs scored per game, hits, batting average and on base percentage. Atlanta leads the Majors in home runs, slugging percentage and OPS. The offensive show every night is impressive. It’s the best stretch in franchise history, dating back to 1901. It’s not only the best baseball the team has played since moving to Atlanta in 1966. Going back to June 1 of last season, the Braves are playing. And Kopech would not make it out of the first inning. There was zero chance for the White Sox to come back in a game against baseball’s best team. ![]() More from Bill Shanks: Eddie Rosario and Marcell Ozuna help make the Braves the most feared lineup in MLB Olson hit a long grand slam to right field to give the Braves a 4-0 lead after the first four hitters of the first inning. Sure enough, on Kopech’s second pitch to the fourth batter, National League home run leader Matt Olson, that stretch was extended. There was no way Kopech felt confident of getting out of that inning alive, not against a team that had hit a home run in a franchise-record 26 consecutive games. ![]() It was against the Atlanta Braves, a team that had the best offense in baseball, averaging 5.6 runs per game. He walked two and hit one of the three hitters he faced in the first inning to start the second part of the season. You could have almost felt sorry for Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Michael Kopech Friday night. ![]()
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