Thursday was a long day for the Atlanta Braves. First, they had a day game the day after playing a late weather-delay game which they lost.
The starter, Kevin Gausman, allowed all seven runs in five innings on Wednesday night. Then, for the Thursday day game, they were blown out in a 6-1 lost with Mike Foltynewicz allowing two homers.
To add to that, talk started to build that the Braves were in talks with free agent LHP Dallas Keuchel and the talk spread like gossip at a church picnic when reports came out that the club had jumped the line as front-runners for the former Cy Young winner.