Braves Triumph in Series Opener Against Mets at Citi Field

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00:00The Braves were favored in game number one of a four-game set up in Flushing

00:03inside Citi Field this week and they made good on that number. Great outing out of Spencer

00:08Schwellenbach. Home run from Ronald Acuna Jr. early in the second. The Braves scored all three

00:13of the runs in the opening three frames and despite a two-run shot from Juan Soto who was

00:19playing much better and hitting much better at the dish, his club struggling. Ninth loss now for

00:25the Amazons DRS in their last 10 games. Four of them consecutively against this Atlanta side.

00:31The Braves take the opener of this four-game set up in Queens this week, 3-2.

00:36Yeah, what was the worry about the New York Mets? The lineup is fine. Lindor, Nimmo, Soto, Alonzo,

00:40McNeil. You got a lot of bats that can provide the runs here but what was always puzzling to me was

00:45boy, you got a lot of non-household pitchers really pitching like household names right now. When is

00:49that going to stop? Were you seeing that stop right now? And also, if you want to be a first-place

00:53team, right? And sometimes you equate it to other teams in the division. Now, Chris Sale goes down

00:57where you said, okay, well, it's Chris Sale, household name, Spencer Schwellenbach starting

01:00to be a household name, and Spencer Strider, household name. It's like, yeah, you can rely

01:04on those guys one, two, three every single day on the mound. Same thing with the Philadelphia

01:08Phillies. Even with Aaron Nola out of the lineup every fifth day, the Phillies go like, yeah,

01:11that guy's a good starter right now. We can see what can happen. The Petersons of the world,

01:15the Holmes of the world, you take a look at now and you're saying, all right, well, let's rely to stop

01:18guys with Paul Blackburn. Paul Blackburn's not a major league baseball pitcher. He's just filling in.

01:22But at a time when the worst way, you need a stopper on the mound. It's like, okay,

01:26we haven't beat the Braves. We're at home. Let's see if we can turn it around. Schwellenbach versus

01:30Blackburn. Get out of here. You're not supposed to win those games. Like, it'd be lucky for you to

01:34win those games. Now, today, you do have a pitcher coming back. It's a name of pedigree going against

01:38Strider. And again, we'll talk about that later in the show, but it's not a surprise to me.

01:42Every single day when you line up, you want to have the better pitcher on the mound. The Mets haven't

01:45been having that, and they've actually been facing quality opponents if you want to call the Braves a

01:49quality opponent because what we based on, you know, the past five to 10 years of what they can

01:53do. We take a look at where that series started with the Tampa Bay Rays. Really good team. The

01:57Philadelphia Phillies, really good team. You're not going to walk over those teams if you have

02:00average pitching, and that's what's happening.