The Colorado Rockies, winners of 11 of their first 13 games in September, have since dropped 4 of their last 10. The team’s serious competitors have also played middling baseball as of late — except for the Braves, who have won 11 of 13 themselves.Earlier this month, the Braves were looking up at the Rockies, Giants and Marlins in the NL Wild Card standings, but as Talking Chop notes, Braves fans can now speculate on playoff contention with a straight face.
Red-Hot Braves Move to Within 3.5 Games of Rockies
Yes, they’re going to need some help from the Rockies, but if you figured out the questions above, you’ll realize that while they’ve had a pretty easy schedule so far in September, they have a very rough schedule in the last week of the season, whereas the Braves have possibly the easiest schedule in all of baseball with 7 games against the worst team in baseball.
Atlanta is 3.5 games behind Colorado, and kicks off a three-game series against the lowly Nationals on Friday night. You can follow the action in Talking Chop’s game thread.
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