There are many highs and many lows over the course of a 162 game baseball season. And this sure feels about as low as you can get.
The Braves continued their spiral on Wednesday night in San Diego, falling by a score of 5-2. It was their fourth loss in a row to drop them to 48-31 on the season. They are 4.5 up on the Phillies, who keep winning in heroic ways. Imagine that.
The only offense came by way of a Joey Bart homer in the sixth to cut the deficit to 3-2. In very June Braves fashion, those two
runs were returned almost immediately in the bottom half of the inning on a 65mph slice shot to make it 5-2.
The Braves loaded the bases in the fourth and had nothing to show for it. They had two on in the second and had nothing to show for it. I suppose that’s what will happen with half your lineup consists of Austin Riley, Eli White, Jorge Mateo and Ha-Seong Kim.
Martin Perez was not sharp over four innings, surrendering four hits and four walks. The bullpen covered the final four innings and was mostly effective, sans the two runs in the sixth.
The Braves go into the off day in search of answers. They’ll try to figure it out in San Francisco on Friday night at 10:15 p.m. ET.
