Last night was not a great one for the Atlanta Braves. They fell back to .500 after a team-effort walloping by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Justin Turner hit three home runs, Max Fried allowed four runs in an inning of work, and perhaps most ignominiously, the Braves were not able to avoid Hyun-Jin Ryu from registering a pitching performance named after one of the Braves’ own greats — the Maddux.
For those unfamiliar with the Maddux, it’s a complete game shutout of an opposing team in under 100 pitches. It’s called the Maddux because Greg was way better at completing this task than others — since 1988 and up through a certain point that may or may not be current because the MLB glossary page doesn’t specify, he hurled 13 such outings, while the next-closest pitcher only had seven.