Here Come the Braves

Everyone has been talking all doom and gloom about the season. On 4/15 Smoltz throws a CG 4 hitter. Thomson pitched 6 beautiful shutout innings on 4/16 but the bullpen slipped, probably due to being a bit overworked for the first 2 weeks of the season, and gave it away. Sosa got rocked on 4/17 but I'm not so sure we should be expecting much more of him. Last year he had a lot of good luck. Maybe it'll continue, maybe not. I'll be glad when Ramirez is back, though. On 4/18 Davies mans up after Sosa was bombed in NY and gives up 1 in a CG effort against the Mets. Today Hudson who's been terrible this year follows it up with another CG and they beat the Mets in NY again, this time 2-1. That's 3 CG in the last 5 and 4 beautiful starting efforts in the last 5. A few months from now people will be looking back at this stretch as the one that turned the season around for the Braves.

UPDATE: The AJC now reports:

"Excluding Jorge Sosa's four-inning mess in Monday's series opener, the other four starters are 3-0 with a 0.55 ERA during the run, allowing two runs and 11 hits in 33 innings, with three walks and 22 strikeouts."

That's phenomenal pitching. That's Braves baseball.