Matt Olson has being suspended due to his attitude towards the ongoing protocol

We Braves fans are spoiled. And it seems like every time the team loses, it’s a self-inflicted loss. Case in point, Matt Olson, who’s start is more Casey Kotchman than Matt Olson, just seems like his body has been taken over by a city league softball player and every facet of his game is suffering. While he wasn’t charged with errors, he made 2 bewildering moves last night that impacted the outcome of the game while also going 0-4. And let’s be fair, it isn’t just Olson:

Ronald Acuña Jr. went 0-5, and OPS is down to .730

Austin Riley went 0-5 and OPS is down to .677

Jarred Kelenic is carrying a .435 OPS in his last 13 games with 17Ks and the dead eyes have returned

Thank the light that Acuña has been getting on base and the middle/back end of the order in Marcell Ozuna, Michael Harris II, Orlando Arcia, and Travis D’Arnaud are picking up the slack.

The Recap

Charlie Morton just doesn’t get enough credit across the Braves blogosphere. The dude is 40, just went up against the current best team in the AL, and put up zeroes through 7 innings, giving up 4 hits, 1 walk and striking out 6. Unfortunately for Charle, Joe Jimenez wasn’t good, giving up 2 in the 8th. Raisel Iglesias was fine and got the Braves to extras tied 2-2. Dylan Lee relieved Iglesias and looked great and ended up throwing 2 innings and was charged with the loss, of no real fault of his own.

Edit: Assumptions in journalism are lazy and as the head honcho here, I’ve got to be better. During Joe Jimenez’s inning, I was on kid duty, reading books to my kids and didn’t catch the inning. I’m going to leave my poor assumptions up as a reminder to myself to never assume in baseball.

After reading the recap thread, I did some research and found this quite fascinating:

parts to last night’s game, but the most frustrating was the 10th inning. Lee was brilliant, allowed no runs, and it seemed like victory was near: