It’s funny that it happened yesterday for two reasons, at least to me.
First, in the recap thread for Sunday’s game, there was a brief exchange about non-competitive games. Using a couple of different methodologies, True2Atlanta and I noted that there have only been four-ish games where the Braves weren’t competitive. I did a method that used average leverage throughout the game, and found that about 40 percent of games this season have been below-average in competitiveness basically all the way through,
but 80 percent of those were Braves wins/dominations.
Second, Sunday’s game was the first time this season I missed a few innings. I did it “deliberately,” in the sense that the Braves had a big lead and I surmised I wouldn’t miss anything at all if I went to deal with “you’ve recently been in a car wreck” stuff. Yesterday’s game, well… there wasn’t really any reason to watch the horror show descend on Bummer and company.
Anyway, was last night rock bottom in terms of single-game dismantling of the Braves, or are we somehow going to be in for even worse somewhere in the 100ish remaining games of the season?
