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Despite the returns of Ronald Acuna Jr. and Spencer Strider from lengthy IL stints, the 2025 season hasn’t gone as the Atlanta Braves had hoped. In 2024 the team battled through numerous injuries, somehow making the playoffs for the seventh straight season. This year, the team is six games under .500 and 11 games out […]

The Atlanta Braves are one of the bigger surprises in baseball this season. The Braves are nine games under .500, and they have lost eight of their last 10 games heading into Tuesday’s tilt with the Milwaukee Brewers. However, the Braves are not as bad as their record suggests. In fact, Atlanta is one of […]

Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale has spent the last two seasons as his team’s ace. The Braves were without Spencer Strider last season and Sale filled in perfectly. He dominated on his way to the first Cy Young Award of his career. Sale clashed with Zack Wheeler in Thursday’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies, adding […]

The Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies will be idle Wednesday night, as their scheduled game for the evening has been postponed due to weather issues. Instead, the second game of the three-game series at Citizens Bank in Philadelphia has been rescheduled for Thursday as part of a doubleheader. The decision was announced by the […]

The Atlanta Braves may have lost a tough one Friday night, but the return of Ronald Acuña Jr. gave fans something to cheer about. After missing nearly a full year due to a torn left ACL, the reigning NL MVP made a thunderous statement—homering on the first pitch he saw in his return to the […]

Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Spencer Strider pitched just five innings in his 2025 debut before a hamstring strain sent him back to the injured list. After beating the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Thursday, Braves manager Brian Snitker announced that the former All-Star will be back early next week. Reigning National League Cy Young winner Chris […]

The Boston Red Sox lost a heartbreaker to the Detroit Tigers in extra innings on Tuesday. They face an uphill battle in the series finale against reigning American League CY Young winner Tarik Skubal. After their finale against the Tigers, the Red Sox face the other 2024 CY Young winner; Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale. […]

In a game that started as a pitchers’ duel and ended in fireworks, the Atlanta Braves delivered another Truist Park classic. Marcell Ozuna came through in the clutch on Tuesday night, drilling a walk-off single to the left-field corner to secure a 2-1 extra-inning win over the Cincinnati Reds. With the game tied 1-1 in […]

The Atlanta Braves may have finally found themselves after a disastrous 0-7 start to the season. They’re 13-8 since then and 8-2 in their last 10 games, as the team is slowly starting to resemble what we thought it could be in the spring. On the mound, things have been rocky. Spencer Schwellenbach still has […]

The Atlanta Braves are finding their rhythm after a slow start, and so is Chris Sale. In Friday night’s commanding 8-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, Sale delivered his strongest outing of the season, flashing signs of the dominant ace who helped anchor Atlanta’s rotation just a year ago. Sale reflected on the outing, telling […]

Luke Keaschall will join the Minnesota Twins and make his MLB debut against the Atlanta Braves. The top prospect for the Twins was called up to the majors as Rocco Baldelli looks for a replacement for the injured Jose Miranda, according to The Athletic. Minnesota is looking for a new look to help jump-start a […]

A star left-handed pitcher makes his MLB debut with the Chicago White Sox, establishes himself as a star and ends up getting traded to the Boston Red Sox. The pitcher immediately excels in Boston, proving that he can handle the pressure of a big-market. There are two specific pitchers who those two sentences could describe […]

Chris Sale’s 2025 season isn’t off to the Cy Young-caliber start Braves fans hoped for. Through three outings, the 36-year-old lefty has shown flashes of his dominant self but has also struggled with command, consistency, and perhaps most noticeably—velocity. Sale, who won the 2024 NL Cy Young Award with a resurgent campaign, has seen a […]

No team in the MLB has had a worse start than the Atlanta Braves, who are the league’s only winless team after dropping to 0-6 with Tuesday’s loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Braves’ highly anticipated offensive attack has been an absolute dud through the first week of the season, and there are already […]

The Atlanta Braves are currently preparing for Opening Day. Chris Sale is set to start the Braves’ first game of the season. However, will pitching prospect AJ Smith-Shawver begin the year in Atlanta’s rotation? According to Mark Bowman of MLB.com, it appears the right-handed hurler will indeed make the team. “Sale will face the Rays […]

Atlanta Braves starter Spencer Strider made his first appearance in nearly a year on Monday and he absolutely shoved. Strider, who last pitched on April 4, 2024, before suffering a season-ending elbow injury, tossed 2.2 innings of scoreless baseball in Grapefruit League action in spring training, striking out five straight hitters at one point. He […]

Coming off a season in which he won the NL Cy Young award, Atlanta Braves star Chris Sale is ready for the 2025 season. The team’s first game comes on Opening Day when the club takes on the San Diego Padres on March 27. On Monday morning, the Braves announced Sale as the Opening Day […]

Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale’s return to JetBlue Park on Saturday featured more than just a solid outing on the mound — it included a heartfelt tribute to Boston Red Sox great Luis Tiant. Starting for the Braves against his former team, Sale opened the bottom of the first inning with a deliberate hesitation and […]

The Atlanta Braves are trying to get back to their winning ways in 2025 after bowing out of the playoffs quietly last season. After a long stretch of deep playoff runs, the braves went out quietly with a 2-0 loss to the San Diego Padres in the Wild Card series. Now, spring training is underway […]

The Atlanta Braves are preparing for the 2025 regular season in spring training. Chris Sale, who earned the 2024 National League Cy Young Award, recently made his spring debut. The left-handed ace impressed, to say the least, turning in two shutout innings. The Braves ultimately lost the game 3-1 against the San Diego Padres, but […]

Atlanta Braves star pitcher Chris Sale will reportedly start the team’s spring training opener on Saturday against the Minnesota Twins, David O’Brien of The Athletic reports. Sale, 35, made quite the impression in his first season in Atlanta during the 2024 campaign. The left-handed hurler led the league with 225 strikeouts and a 2.38 ERA. […]

There wasn’t much else Paul Skenes could have done in his dominant rookie season for the Pittsburgh Pirates. But the great ones always find new ways to maximize their talent. Skenes finished the 2023-24 campaign with a 11-3 record, a 1.96 ERA and 170 strikeouts. He is already back at the office looking at what […]

The Chicago White Sox are coming off the worst season in the franchise’s history. They lost a record 121 games in 2024, including losing 21 games in a row. Clearly, this team will have no immediate success and, therefore, is looking to the future. With that in mind, they pulled off the biggest trade of […]

The MLB’s winter stove can flame up or cool off on a whim. An All-Star’s change of plans can mean the opening up of an owner’s wallet or the closing of a front office’s championship window. The Atlanta Braves heard one possible Hall of Famer fighting back against Father Time and decided to go all-in […]

Braves pitcher Chris Sale gave an honest answer about whether he’s secured a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The 2024 National League Cy Young Award winner is one of the most decorated pitchers of this generation. An eight-time All-Star and one-time World Series champion, the 35-year-old put together the best season of his […]

Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Chris Sale won his first career Cy Young award on Wednesday. Despite his excellent career and six top-five finishes, he had never won the award. The morning after the announcement, he went on Foul Territory with his former teammate AJ Pierzynski. He took a shot at the White Sox, their former […]

The Atlanta Braves did not have the postseason success they hoped for in 2024. Yet, the club still received some of the best MLB production from one of their veteran players. Left-handed pitcher Chris Sale had a resurgent 2024 campaign, and as a result, he has won the National League Cy Young Award, per Jeff […]

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes is already the National League Rookie of the Year. He’s also a finalist for the 2024 NL Cy Young Award, alongside Chris Sale and Zack Wheeler of the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies respectively. While it could be a banner three days for Skenes, with MLB announcing the Cy Young […]

The 2024-25 MLB offseason is here, which means that every organization around the league is looking forward to next season. There are a lot of offseason dates that can drastically shake up the landscape in baseball, such as the MLB Draft Lottery on Dec. 10 and the Winter Meeting from Dec. 8-11, as trades are […]

The Atlanta Braves got swept 2-0 by the San Diego Padres in the Wild Card round of the postseason. One of the biggest reasons why: star pitcher Chris Sale’s back injury. Sale was last-second scratch from the must-win second game of the doubleheader on Monday due to back spasms. Then, Sale was left off of […]

The biggest story going forward for the Atlanta Braves as they prepare for their Wild Card series against the San Diego Padres is Chris Sale’s health. Sale was a last-second scratch from the win or go home Game 2 of Monday’s doubleheader and is not on the Braves’ Wild Card round roster as he continues […]

The Atlanta Braves will take on the San Diego Padres in the Wild Card round, beginning Tuesday at 8:30pm est. Both teams enter the postseason red hot, earning the top two National League Wild Card berths. With plenty of storylines to delve into, we offer our Padres-Braves Wild Card series predictions. The Padres finished an […]

There’s not much that can dampen the mood for a Major League Baseball team when they clinch the playoffs, but the injury update the Atlanta Braves got on Chris Sale just might do it. Hours after the Braves scratched Sale from their must-win Game 162 on Monday, manager Brian Snitker told reporters that he “does […]

A whirlwind Monday for the Atlanta Braves has taken a serious turn for the worse. Just minutes after losing the first game of a season-defining doubleheader to the New York Mets on Monday, the team has scratched Cy Young favorite Chris Sale from Game 2 due to back spasms, according to Mark Bowman of MLB.com. […]

Although the Atlanta Braves’ streak of consecutive NL East titles has ended at six, they are still in the hunt for the postseason. The wonky rescheduling of the rest of its series with the New York Mets has put them in a peculiar spot as they try to earn a Wild Card bid. They had […]

The Atlanta Braves have been one of the most talked-about teams this MLB season, both for their resilience and their setbacks. Despite battling a laundry list of injuries to key players that would have derailed most other teams, the Braves, at 86-71, have managed to stay in the postseason picture with only a handful of […]

Major League Baseball hands out the Cy Young Award to the best pitchers in both the National League and the American League. After the Phillies clinched their series with the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1, first baseman Bryce Harper sang the praises of their ace pitcher Zack Wheeler, locked in a Cy Young battle with Atlanta Braves […]

With the New York Mets (75-64) riding a six-game winning streak and knocking on the door of the final National League Wild Card slot, the Atlanta Braves (75-63) need someone they can trust implicitly in the last month of the regular season. If someone were to proclaim that Chris Sale would be that guy this […]

Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal have taken commanding leads in their respective Cy Young races. The lefties were not seen as favorites coming into the season, but have been spectacular this season. If they keep it up, the Triple Crown is in reach for both. Two lefties have never done that in the same season […]