Pumpkin Carving Contest Finalists
A couple of days ago, this tweet came across my timeline from the official Atlanta Braves account:
Show us your Braves pumpkin! Use #ThisIsWhyWeCarve & you might win an autographed baseball! http://t.co/s20o0NjYFa pic.twitter.com/kmp5gIcpN2
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) October 28, 2014
One of the contest finalists is pictured above… you can see the rest at this WSB-TV link. Not sure if this one came in too late to be a “finalist”, but it’s impressive, for sure:
(Picture submitted via twitter by Chris Saunders – @BadBean74)
Chipper Approves
Speaking of the somewhat-retired Chipper Jones: in between hunting and snake pictures on his timeline, we noted this yesterday as well:
I like the Seitzer hire as hitting coach. Don't know much about him personally other than he's well respected and he was a helluva hitter!
— Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) October 30, 2014
Nice to see a positive weigh-in on new hitting coach Kevin Seitzer from somebody who obviously has a clue or two about hitting.
Playing in Peoria
Motor City Bengals
Yesterday the Peoria Javelinas (7-12-2) went down to defeat 4-1 to the Glendale Desert Dogs. The only position player belonging to the Braves that played was
Daniel Castro, who hit for his requisite 1-for-4 (.233), that hit being a double. He then scored the lone Javelinas run.
Both Ryne Harper and Nate Hyatt pitched in the game: Harper for 2 innings and Hyatt for 1. They combined for 4 strikeouts, no walks, and no hits. Harper has now pushed his ERA under 5.00 and Hyatt’s is all the way down to 1.29 as he continues to crank out solid innings.