The Atlanta Braves didn’t have a great month of May. Finishing the month at 13-14, it’s the first losing month for Atlanta since May of 2022, when Atlanta went 13-15.
The Atlanta Braves haven’t had a Cy Young winner since lefty Tom Glavine in 1998. Glavine’s victory capped a decade of dominant pitching from Atlanta’s “Big Three” of John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, and Glavine.
The Braves recorded their 9th shutout of the season last night against the Nationals with a 2-0 victory behind another gem from Max Fried. In the win, Fried threw 8.0 innings of no-run ball, allowing seven hits and issuing just one walk while striking out six, dropping his ERA below 3.00 and extending his record to 5-2.
The Atlanta Braves shut out the Washington Nationals, 2-0, on Tuesday night to move to 31-21 on the season. The loss dropped Washington to 24-29 on the year.
Max Fried pitched eight scoreless innings and Marcell Ozuna blasted his National League-leading 16th home run of the season to help the Atlanta Braves defeat the visiting Washington Nationals 2-0 on Tuesday.
The Braves look to get back into the win column and Max Fried looks to pick up where he left off in his last outing After the Atlanta Braves fell into
The Atlanta Braves will turn to ace left-hander Max Fried on Tuesday when they try to even their four-game series with the visiting Washington Nationals.
max Fried and the rest of the Braves’ rotation have been dominant through the first two months of the season. With the offense still searching for consistency, the Atlanta Braves pitching staff has stepped and carried the club over the past month.
The Braves were able to bounce back nicely following a frustrating series with the Padres, wining two out of three at Wrigley Field. There were several notable storylines, but nothing stood out more than the brilliance of Max Fried.
The Braves didn’t exactly break out offensively, but pitching carried the day once again in a series win The Atlanta Braves did this week what they also did last week: take a series from the Chicago Cubs.
Max Fried came close to a no-hitter and remains the top pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. He carried his latest no-hit id into the sixth inning as the Braves won 9-2 over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
There was, though, a very nice MLB debut for a Cubs pitcher. Look at it this way. The way Max Fried was pitching Wednesday at Wrigley Field, the Cubs likely weren’t going to win this game anyway, even if they had better pitching themselves.
Atlanta Braves Starting Pitcher Max Fried had a great start on Wednesday night on the road against the Chicago Cubs. He tossed a complete game and surrendered one earned run while striking out nine batters.
Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday AJ Smith-Shawver is being called up to make his first major league start of the season on Thursday. I have some concerns about this for AJ, as I talked about in a quickpost (a new feature of ours if you missed it).
Left-hander Max Fried continued his mastery of the Chicago Cubs by throwing a complete game to lead the visiting Atlanta Braves to a 9-2 win on Wednesday.
Max Fried will try to extend his unbeaten streak against Chicago on Wednesday night when the Atlanta Braves visit the Cubs for the second contest of their three-game series.
Atlanta Braves left-hander Max Fried has been in high-chop form of late; Fried’s recent hot streak includes a shutout against the Miami Marlins on April 23, six no-hit frames versus the Seattle Mariners on April 29, and another no-hitter against the New York Mets, where he tossed seven no-hit innings before being lifted due to a high pitch count.
On Saturday, Braves pitcher Max Fried was close to solidifying himself in team history after throwing seven innings without allowing a single hit. But closer Rasiel Iglesias gave up a home run to New York Mets’ JD Martinez in the bottom of the ninth to end the combined bid.
The Atlanta Braves have had some great pitchers over the past 30 years. But the one thing those pitchers have not done during that stretch is throw a no-hitter.
The solution to fixing Max Fried’s early season struggles turns out to be a simple one. Just have him face the Marlins every time he toes the rubber. In Fried’s first start against the Fish, he went into the seventh inning and only allowed one run on four hits.
Max Fried had given up 10 earned runs in his five innings of work heading into Friday night's start against the Miami Marlins, but the 30-year-old left-handed pitcher finally looked like himself against a struggling Marlins lineup.
The 30-year-old’s pitching line should have looked a lot different.
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Even without Max Fried, the Braves still have All-Star (and NL Cy Young contender) Spencer Strider as their No. 1, with veteran Charlie Morton and 24-year-old All-Star Bryce Elder to help lead the rotation through the final couple of weeks of the regular season.
The Atlanta Braves are being understandably cautious with ace Max Fried having already clinched the NL East. The club pushed back Fried's next start in the hopes that it will prevent a finger hot spot from turning into a blister.
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