Every week for most of this Major League Baseball season, there’s been a growing opinion that it can’t get any worse for the Atlanta Braves. Injuries, prolonged hitting slumps and shoddy pitching long ago derailed a once-promising season.
But as the Bravos join the Cincinnati Reds tonight at Bristol Motor Speedway for an otherwise meaningless game that will reportedly break a 71-year-old single-game MLB attendance record, I’ll nominate this week as one of the worst in franchise history.
Or don’t you think losing 1-0 in 10 innings in Kansas City, blowing an 11-3 lead in Cincy by giving up eight runs in the eighth inning before winning 12-11 on two sacrifice flies in the 10th and losing Ronald Acuna Jr.