Matt Olson has been recognized as the National League’s best defensive first baseman for the second straight season. As for Mauricio Dubón, he strengthened the argument that he stands as baseball’s best defensive utility player.
In the end, the Braves didn’t have enough healthy pitchers. But even if they had, they wouldn’t have had enough offense to prove successful in the postseason.
For six innings Wednesday night, Tyler Mahle gave the Braves every reason to believe their season would continue.
ATLANTA — Whether it’s their intention or not, the Los Angeles Dodgers are building their whole postseason offense out of home runs.
Enrique Hernandez and Freddie Freeman each homered in the fourth inning and Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered seven strong innings to hand the Los Angeles Dodgers a 3-1 win and a 2-1 series lead over the Atlanta Braves in their National League Division Series Tuesday night.
Though they resorted to a pair of bullpen games to begin their National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Atlanta Braves head home for Game 3 on Tuesday with the series tied 1-1.
Ray Kerr and Didier Fuentes combined to allow one run over 6 1/3 innings as the Atlanta Braves pieced together a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday to even the National League Division Series at one game apiece.
Tarik Skubal dominated over six innings, three home runs powered the offense and the Los Angeles Dodgers opened the National League Division Series with a 5-3 victory over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Saturda
Michael Harris II, Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson homered and six Braves pitchers stifled the Philadelphia Phillies’ offense, allowing Atlanta to roll to a 6-2 victory in the decisive third game of a National League wild-card series Thursday evening.
Hours before his team faced elimination on Wednesday, Philadelphia Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly exuded confidence that his team’s season wouldn’t be ending that day.
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