For the second straight year, the Braves and the Dodgers are meeting in the NLCS. Instead of meeting up in a barn in Texas and duking it out, this time they’ll thankfully be doing baseball battle in their own ballparks. So here we are: The Braves are playing a NLCS game in their home ballpark for the first time since 2001. Excited yet?
It’s probably even more exciting to think about how Max Fried is going to be making the start for the Braves in Game 1. He’s coming off of a start in Game 1 of the NLDS where he went six innings and shut out the Brewers in a game that the Braves eventually turned into a shutout victory.