Author: Alex Remington (Another Alex R.)

I’m writing this on my phone because I’m traveling; I “watched” by Gameday and phone. This recap will not be the most verbose or detailed I’ve written, nor the most informed or the most accurate or the most good-est. But … Finish Reading

There is an old Soviet joke my father and I have loved for many decades. It goes as follows (I will attempt to abbreviate):

Leonid Brezhnev wakes up in the morning, looks out his bedroom window, and sees the rising … Finish Reading

“Dance with the ones that brung you” is all-purpose advice. Sometimes, it seems like sage counsel, when the champions who excelled before manage to thrive once again. Sometimes it sounds like the desperate acknowledgement that there’s no one else: the … Finish Reading

If you wanted to explain what it was like to root for the first-half Atlanta Braves to someone who only learned about baseball after the 2021 All-Star Break, last night’s game was a perfect example: random players like Ehire Adrianza, … Finish Reading

Charlie Morton and Zach Wheeler were as advertised. Will Smith was (nearly) as feared. The slightly better team won by just enough. What are you expecting, a detailed recap of a seven-hit game?

If I were JonathanF, of course, I’d … Finish Reading

Boring in the best way. If you threw these two teams into OOTB a hundred times, it would probably spit out something like this game quite a few times. (I went to bed after the fifth — the old grey mare … Finish Reading

*clears throat*

Well, that sucked. I can’t remember the taxonomy of Braves losses any more, but this game was one we’ve seen a bunch. As Doctor Seuss might have said, describing a game like this:

Last night’s game was too late and it apparently involved Luke Jackson coughing up the lead after I went to bed. Whatever. The only thing that really mattered in the game is Ozzie fouled a ball off his kneecap and … Finish Reading

Not the finest three hours for Chris Conroy. In addition to some questionable ball-and-strike calls, he called Joc Pederson out on a foul tip the catcher couldn’t corral, and called Freddie out on a play at the plate where … Finish Reading

A true nailbiter and worth every penny. If you’re a fan of an old-fashioned pitcher’s duel, that was pretty nearly game of the year. And if you got up to the fridge for a beer in the third inning, by … Finish Reading