“We had our best leftie up there against their best left-handed reliever, kind of like they’re going 1-on-1, and Freddie won that battle,” Snitker said.Īnd, so did baseball’s second highest-scoring team, the one that supposedly was going to need to bludgeon its way to a first playoff series win since 2001, survive a day that was historically unfriendly to hitters. The man Freeman victimized for the walk-off, game-winning hit was Amir Garrett, who as Snitker pointed out, “is as tough as nails against lefties.” In fact, Freeman’s hit was only the second given up to a lefthander in 24 at-bats by Garrett this season. I’m just glad to be able to come out on top.” You’re going to have to win these games to get to the end. It’s just kind of how it is, it’s postseason baseball. Everyone’s throwing three or four miles per hour than they normally do – 98 (mph), 99, 100, it seems like, even on our side. “He went out there and dealt,” Freeman said. “You’re going against potentially the Cy Young Award winner of the league this year, you knew going in you were going to have a battle on your hands,” he said. In a way, it seemed to almost buoy Freeman to endure such a trial and come out with an important opening victory in a best-of-three series. A parade of five relievers, all throwing gas, did the rest.

They were facing the probable NL Cy Young Award winner in Cincinnati’s Trevor Bauer, who did the hard work, hanging 12 strikeouts on the Braves. Three other Braves – Marcell Ozuna, Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson – had three Ks. For the Braves, the frustration was led by Adam Duvall with four strikeouts. We weathered that storm a number of times this year.”Įvery player in the two starting lineups struck out at least once. (Hitters) in this situation get a little antsy and whatever, it’s kind of who we are. Everyone one of them were on their game, too, just like we were. “The (pitchers) that you’re facing have a lot to do with that,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. Still, one of the benefits of winning is not having to apologize for failing to put a ball in play so many, many times. The Braves have struck out 15 or more times in a game five times this season.

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