Atlanta – Brad Ausmus gathered the team in the clubhouse following the sudden death of their playoff dreams Sunday.
“I told them I was proud of the way they went about their business,” he said. “It sucks we’re not going to the postseason. That’s what you do all the work in spring training for. That’s your goal and we didn’t attain our goal. In that sense, we fell short.
“But sometimes there is a bigger picture. And the bigger picture for me was how they went about their business and how their performance carried us to the last game of the season.