Braves (Ritchie) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 09/16/26, 6:40 PM

[ILMindState]

Wtf is Pete not auto stealing anytime he's on

[abuck1220]

horsefeathers. STEAL. 
 

one of the best baserunners in mlb vs the second worst CS team in mlb. what the horsefeathers horsefeathers are we doing. 

[Geographyhater8888]

We got Seiya rolling over a fastball for a double play instead. Good time to start slumping. Get it out of the way now so you can snap out of it next May Seiya.

Edited 21 hours ago by Geographyhater8888

[chibears55]

Pete gotta go on 1st 2 pitches when he gets on first

[Jason Ross]

To be fair, Ritchie hadn't thrown a strike yet and you don't want to take the bat out of the hand of Seiya early, either. He was looking like he might give you second for free.

We all want 40/40 but I also understand not going there. Sadly we live in the future and know what happened.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Man we love to give bases away 

[Jason Ross]

Mostly good job Bregman. I'd rather you not get thrown at second...but I like runs more.

[ILMindState]

The people wanna see 40/40 Pete. At least give us something to cheer before the pitching eventually blows the lead. 

[JHBulls]

Brave challenge. 

[We Got The Whole 9]

2 of the lamest singles you will ever see tonight for the Braves

[Derwood]

Braves with some Brewer magic on these bullsh!t hits

[Rcal10]

5 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

Mostly good job Bregman. I'd rather you not get thrown at second...but I like runs more.

I think he thought they were going home with the throw. At least he didn’t keep going and get thrown out before Busch scored. 

[Jason Ross]

Just now, Rcal10 said:

I think he thought they were going home with the throw. At least he didn’t keep going and get thrown out before Busch scored. 

Yeah, on second thought, I thought the same. 

This happened to me last Wednesday night. I was on first late in the game and the kid who hits behind me smashed what *should* have been a double to CF. Any normal speed human being scored from first, but my slow ass needed some help. So he stretched it to a triple, almost got hosed a third just so I could score.

TLDR; being slow sucks and sometimes your friends have to help you out.

[Rcal10]

8 minutes ago, Jason Ross said:

To be fair, Ritchie hadn't thrown a strike yet and you don't want to take the bat out of the hand of Seiya early, either. He was looking like he might give you second for free.

We all want 40/40 but I also understand not going there. Sadly we live in the future and know what happened.

I realize we are looking at this after the fact. But really PCA should go on the 1st or 2nd  pitch. At that time we don’t know he is 2-0 to Seiya. All he did up until then was walk the lead off hitter. 40 SB aside, Pete need to run on Atlanta. Busch stole a base Monday. 

[Jason Ross]

Just now, Rcal10 said:

I realize we are looking at this after the fact. But really PCA should go on the 1st or 2nd  pitch. At that time we don’t know he is 2-0 to Seiya. All he did up until then was walk the lead off hitter. 40 SB aside, Pete need to run on Atlanta. Busch stole a base Monday. 

It's hard to go on the first or the second pitch of a game when you're on base, though. You want to get a feel for the movement and everything. 

I know we all want the steals, but there's a reason he didn't go. He's an excellent base runner and it isn't because he's lazy or not reading the game. Ritchie isn't throwing strikes and has only faced the Cubs one time over his young career, back in May. It's very likely he wasn't feeling comfortable and didn't want to run into an out when the kid had thrown 7 pitches only one of which was a strike so far.

[We Got The Whole 9]

2 straight garbage ABs. 

[UMFan83]

Runner on 3rd 1 out what can go wrong?

oh, yeah that

[We Got The Whole 9]

Absolute horsefeathers ass. These guys suck at the little things. 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

this guy should have been out of the game in the 1st inning, instead he's settling down

[We Got The Whole 9]

Nico chased 2/3 

Conforto chased 3/4

Pedro chased 3/3 

 

Sick of this horsefeathers horsefeathers. 

[cl smooth]

That strikeout of Olson was a thing of beauty. 

[abuck1220]

I didn’t want him to steal because of 40/40, I wanted him to steal because I want the cubs to win. he steals bases at an 85% success rate. braves allow opposing teams to steal at an 85% success rate. I’m no advanced metrics guru, but I feel like PCA had at least an 85% chance of successfully stealing 2b.  

[SparkMark1]

A thing of beauty 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

stop hitting HR or you can't steal

[chibears55]

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He might get 50 bombs before he gets 40 SB 🤣🤣🤣