David O'Brien
Sports Reporter at The Athletic
Ink-stained wretch and music snob. Chronicling major league baseball for 30 years. #Braves beat writer for @TheAthletic.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
TAMPA, Fla. - One week after Joe Boyle allowed three hits and four walks in four innings against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, he played his music in the sun against the Atlanta Braves, not even allowing a runner to reach base until the fifth inning Sunday in the Tampa Bay Rays' 8-3 series-clinching win against the Braves and Chris Sale.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
TAMPA, Fla. - It was just one game, but it felt like something more for an Atlanta Braves team that's scuffled severely in the early season. A couple of innings and a few home runs can have a galvanizing effect on a team, or at least rejuvenate the clubhouse vibe.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
TAMPA - Spencer Strider returns to the Atlanta Braves this week and not a minute too soon. Their starting rotation, as constituted, doesn't seem equipped to reel off three or four good starts in a row, much less the kind of run it might take to help their offensively challenged team put together a decent winning streak.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
ATLANTA - Two reasons not to write off the Atlanta Braves were on the mound Thursday: Spencer Strider in an afternoon rehab start for Triple-A Gwinnett at Norfolk, where he piled up 13 strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings, and Spencer Schwellenbach in a series-finale start against the Philadelphia Phillies at Truist Park. Strider's next start is expected to be for Atlanta in the finale of a three-game series at Toronto that begins Monday, one year after having internal-brace elbow surgery.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | David O'Brien
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves didn't have a sacrifice fly this season until Michael Harris II hit one to score the tying run in the sixth inning of Tuesday's series-opening win against the Philadelphia Phillies. Now they have two, as Harris did it again in the sixth inning Wednesday. His sacrifice fly provided a 2-1 lead and put Atlanta in a position to clinch the series and win for the third time in four games after a dreadful 0-7 start. Bryce Harper had other ideas, however.
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Solo homers from Ozuna and Albies in the eighth inning have pulled the #Braves within 5-3 of the Rays
And it is overturned, 3-2 fielder's choice, still tied 1-1....For 20 seconds. Until Jansen's first-pitch two-run homer gives the Rays a 3-1 lead.
Errant throw from Baldwin on stolen base allows runner to reach third, from where he scored the go-ahead run on a fielder's choice grounder to Olson, who threw home. #Braves challenged call, looked like Baldwin got him but tough to overturn probably.
Errant throw from Baldwin on stolen base allows runner to reach third, from where he scored the go-ahead run on a fielder's choice grounder to Olson, who threw home. #Braves challenged call, looked like Baldwin got him but tough to overturn probably.
