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Atlanta Braves Morning Chop & Box… Freddie’s Wife is a Troll

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The Box from yesterday…

…and I promise you that this is the worst part of this post:  much more interesting stuff is to come.
 
It’s going to be a bad day when Braves’ pitching gives up more walks than hits. It’s especially troubling when your #1 starter goes out and matches his personal record for walks in a game. Something would seem to be up with him.

But we’re now off for Philadelphia with a tattered bullpen in tow.

Win a World Series Ring

More from Tomahawk Take

Unfortunately, it’s not a Braves Ring, but it’s still an eye-opening contest being conducted by the Dan Francisco Giants for their charity, the Giants Community Fund.  According to the contest page, the fund “works to enrich the lives of under-served youth through the Junior Giants program and other community initiatives” (see also jrgiants.org).

The announcement piece reads: “The San Francisco Giants are raffling off one authentic World Series ring, designed and crafted by Tiffany & Co. The ring is made of 14k white gold and is inlaid with 55 round melee diamonds. One side of the massive ring features the Giants’ three latest World Series trophies and the other has the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a little gaudy.”

Ya think?

Still, if you’d like to participate, each ticket is $10, and the details are available here.  Entry deadline is June 21st.

Interesting.

Freddie’s Wife Trolls Braves Fans

Somewhere around midnight last night, this cryptic tweet came out from Chelsea Freeman.

Now this was funny.  Admittedly ‘funny peculiar’.  A few people retweeted it.  A few responded – and this was typical:

Such an interpretation – that Chris Johnson had been traded – would not be out of bounds – she’s been traveling with the team on this road trip, for instance, so information about a trade could conceivably have reached her ears.

So then the mind races…. did somebody get hurt?  Who needs a third baseman?  Does Jace Peterson now move to third and Jose Peraza get promoted?  What else could this mean???   … until… an hour later…

Happy birthday Chelsea… and well played.  Oh, and by the way, it’s also the birthday of one Larry Wayne “Chipper” Jones, who left his 23rd year behind some time ago… like two decades ago!

Minor League Action from Thursday

ROME BRAVES

Rome fell to Augusta 5-3.  Carlos Salazar pitched well in relief while 9 hits were distributed through the lineup fairly thoroughly.  Has to be getting troubling that Braxton Davidson is hitting just .167 now.  He added two strikeouts and no hits yesterday.

Rome gets a double-header today to make up for a rain-out.  They are now 4-8 on the year.

CAROLINA MUDCATS

The ‘Cats opened a home series vs. Salem by falling 6-4.  They are now 6-7 on the season.

Andrew Thurman gutted through 5 innings, but it was ugly:  4 runs in the 1st and 6 overall against 9 hits (one HR). Meanwhile, the offense only managed 4 hits, with Eric Garcia getting two of those, one a homer.  Dustin Peterson added a 3-run jack in the 5th to keep it interesting, but that closed out the scoring.

MISSISSIPPI BRAVES

The M-Braves are on fire – they won their sixth game in a row and lead the entire Southern League with a record of 9-4 after beating Chattanooga – which is hardly without their own talent – 5-2.

This was the opposite of the Braves-Mets game:  Mississippi got 8 hits and 6 walks to have base-runners all over the place.  Oddly enough, Mallex Smith didn’t get any of those for a change.  He’s now hitting .333… good for fourth on the team.

Pitcher Greg Ross shut down the Lookouts on 5 hits (1 earned run) and no walks (3 K) to help his ERA significantly… despite a couple of high-profile Twins prospects in the lineup.

They have one more game with Chattanooga before hitting the road to Mobile.

GWINNETT BRAVES

Alas, only the AA team was able to win yesterday of all the clubs in the organization.  Gwinnett fell 4-3 to Norfolk, breaking a modest 2 game win streak.  They begin at Durham tonight for three.

The top three hitters in the Gwinnett lineup are now all hitting .271:  Eury Perez (1-3_, Jose Peraza (1-5), and Todd Cunningham (1-4).  Adnois Garcia (2-4) just keeps hitting and is now at .326.

Matt Wisler got touched up for 4 earned in 6 innings (5 hits, 6 K, no walks, but 2 longballs did him in:  all of the scoring was tied to those blasts.

Next: Throwback Thursday: 50 years of Atl 3Bs

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