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The 84-54 1st place in the NL East Atlanta Braves win 5-3 over the 60-76 3rd place in the AL Central Chicago White Sox. The winning pitcher for the Braves is 9-8 Julio Teheran and the losing pitcher for the White Sox is 14-8 Lucas Giolito. Mark Melancon gets his 8th save. The 84-54 1st place in the NL East Atlanta Braves lead the 77-58 2nd place in the NL East Washington Nationals by 5.5 games.
 
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Milwaukee said:
Great weekend for the Bravos. But the season starts Thursday. We can go from a 5 game lead to missing the wild card in a matter of 12 games. Just a brutal schedule down the stretch.

Let’s go!!
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If you think the Braves have a brutal schedule down the stretch, you should look at the Nats. Outside of our seven games against each other they have three more games to play than us. We get the Phillies(7), Mets(3), Blue Jays(2), Giants(3), and Royals(2). They get the Phillies(5 w/double header), Mets(3), Marlins(3), Twins(3), Cardinals(3), and Indians(3).

Match up our Mets and Phillies games and call them equal. Call their Marlins and our Giants series equal. That leaves our Phillies 2, Blue Jays 2, and Royals 2, verses their Twins 3, Indians 3, Cardinals 3.
 
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Buzzbomb said:
The Marlins are 48-88, last place, .353%
The Giants are 66-70, third place, .485%
Not exactly teams that are even.
Atlanta is 15-4 vs. Miami; 3-1 vs. SF.
Washington is 12-3 vs. Miami; 5-1 vs. SF.
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Yeah my thought process on that was personally I would set the odds equally that the Braves and Nats would have the same outcome in those series. If you wanted the teams to be more even record wise, you could say 2 of their Marlins games and our 2 against KC. That still leaves their ten vs Twins/Marlins/Cardinals/Indians against our seven vs Phillies/Giants/Blue Jays. We definitely come out with the easier schedule.

It’s still going to be a grind, but if they were to beat us 5-2 head to head. I like our chances with the remaining opponents to hold on to our lead.
 
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Southpawmac said:
Yeah my thought process on that was personally I would set the odds equally that the Braves and Nats would have the same outcome in those series.


I think if you polled the majority of Baseball people or even the few on this site, they would prefer to play the team 40 games under .500, instead of the Giants who are only 4 under. San Francisco had a nice winning streak in July and Bruce Bochy is retiring. I’d rather play the Marlins any day.
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Hey @Milwaukee .... @Southpawmac saved me the trouble.

The Braves remain in total control of the division. This is because Braves are an outstanding team. I'm watching the Nationals most days & to see what they've done over the last 3 months & check standings to see negligible ground gained... simply means the Braves are as good...& have been all year. It would take a collapse that just defies even "baseball logic"... which we know to be an oxymoron.

Braves magic number down to 21.

So say... they go 12-12 rest of way. Nats have to go 19-8 to force a tie. That hill is too steep.
 
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