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Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos held a media session before a game — which sort of says it all about how the team has been playing.
“I don’t normally do scrums during the season, because we’ve done well,” he told reporters Wednesday. “If I’m doing them, that means we’re not playing well.”
This is, of course, all relative. The Braves have the fourth-best record in the National League. But they entered Wednesday night’s game at Baltimore on a four-game losing streak (which they extended to five with a 4-2 loss) and 10 games behind NL East-leading Philadelphia. So Anthopoulos was available to discuss that disappointing reality.
He acknowledged that, by their standards, the Braves aren’t looking good, but there’s obviously a lot of season left. Right now three teams in the NL — Philadelphia, Milwaukee and the Los Angeles Dodgers — have significant division leads. Atlanta (35-30 with Wednesday’s loss) is the best of the rest. In fact, only five teams in the league entered Wednesday above .500.
Three seasons ago, the Braves went 88-73, but that was enough to take the division. They went on to win the World Series.