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Starting Nine: What’s wrong and what’s right in frustrating start for Braves

Plate discipline problems, lack of Acuña and some not-so-timely hitting have been foundation of Atlanta’s struggles

The Braves have the league’s worst contact rate, and no player in the lineup has swung at more pitches outside the zone than Ozzie Albies at 44 percent.

It’s not a hangover, it’s a sequel and — at least for now — it’s a storyline stuck in the early acts of when the Braves were trying to find their footing and looking up at the Mets in the National League East standings.