The Braves-Marlins game on Wednesday night probably shouldn't have gone into extra innings, but the Braves persevered after a weird error to walk it off in the bottom of the 10th.
With a relatively calm 5-2 victory on Sunday, the Braves closed out a sweep of the reigning National League champions. Here's what we learned after a wild weekend in Atlanta.
Austin Riley had three hits, including the go-ahead single in the eighth inning, to help the Atlanta Braves complete a late-inning comeback for the second straight night and beat the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 9-8 on Saturday.
If there's one thing other MLB teams have learned from watching the Atlanta Braves over the past few years, it's that you never put dirt on them until the final strike is in the catcher's mitt.
Despite the elements, the Braves offense was on fire on Monday. It was a cold and miserable day in Chicago as the Braves opened their series against the White Sox.
Sale had six strikeouts and both Ozuna and Riley took Ober deep The Atlanta Braves took on the Twins today at CoolToday Park. Chris Sale made his fifth start of spring training and looked to keep up his high strikeout rate.
So where are the betting values on the odds table for major-league RBI leaders? Yardbarker's Matt Wiesenfeld shines a light on the board.
The Atlanta Braves‘ Austin Riley will be on the southside of Chicago on April 2nd for his fifth game of the 2024 Season and his 27th birthday. All baseball enthusiasts know that 27 is the magical age in which baseball players break out and mature into their prime. Take legendary Braves HOF third baseman Chipper Jones, for example.
The Atlanta Braves have had some fantastic third basemen in the franchise's history. From all-time greats like Eddie Mathews, Chipper Jones, Terry Pendleton,
After an injury-plagued 2023 season, pitcher Max Fried is healthy as he starts his eighth spring training with the Atlanta Braves. Despite dealing with an oblique injury that kept him sidelined for a large chunk of the Braves’ season, Fried showed off his usual dominant stuff when healthy.
The Braves star third baseman has high expectations for 2024. Though the Braves lost their first game of the Spring on Sunday, and Bryce Elder did not have his best stuff in his first outing.
Riley shined in the field and at the plate, but the Braves came up just short against the Red Sox Sunday. The Atlanta Braves rallied back from a 4-0 deficit, but came up just short in a 5-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox Sunday at CoolToday Park.
The Atlanta Braves are lucky enough to have the perpetually underrated Austin Riley manning third base at the major league level. But if, for some reason,
C.J. Stroud said it best. “Football players want to be basketball players, basketball players want to be football players and we all want to be baseball players.” It’s America’s past time.
Austin Riley can do it all. We all know he can hit a baseball. He showed in one of his latest Instagram posts that he can get all of a golf ball as well.
During Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Yankees and the Cubs, Babe Ruth strolled to the plate and "called his shot" before hitting a huge homer to center field.
Fangraphs is releasing their updated ZiPS projections for each MLB team, and our own Jake Mastroianni covered at length about the exceedingly positive
Austin Riley may have saved the Atlanta Braves postseason...with only one hand. With Atlanta down 1-0 in their Division Series with the Philadelphia Phillies and down 4-3 in Game 2, Riley launched reliever Jeff Hoffman's 3-2 pitch deep into the left field seats.
When you think of "inside the park" homeruns, you think of speedy outfielders getting balls in the corner or a defensive player falling down and the ball rolling past them to the wall.
Austin Riley is a man among boys this evening. He now has two home runs and seven RBIs so far tonight, oh, and we’re only in the sixth inning. The Braves and Diamondbacks are in an all out slugfest.
Over the last couple of seasons, Austin Riley has blossomed into one of the best third basemen in baseball, finishing inside the top 10 of the NL MVP race in each of the last two seasons.
As Austin Riley continued to struggle, more and more Braves fans began to look for reasons why. Eventually, a few things came to light. For one, the Braves third baseman is typically a slow starter to begin with.
I didn’t think I could appreciate Austin Riley any more than I already did. He’s one of the best third basemen in baseball and a perennial MVP candidate, but he’s also just an all-around fantastic human being and a ferocious competitor.
Austin Riley set a record on Monday with an absolute monster of a home run.
Austin Riley isn’t satisfied with his MVP consideration last season; he’s refining his swing despite loads of success with the Braves, according to Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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