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It’s tempting to say that Michael Bourn can’t get here fast enough, but the Braves did well on Bourn’s end, getting on base plenty of times with 13 hits, nearly twice as many as the Marlins, and Jose Constanza had three hits and scored their only run. The Braves just systematically failed to do anything in run-scoring situations; even the run came on a first-inning GIDP.

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Quick recap; I didn’t have any outside communication but phone and text last night, so I’m just catching up now.

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The Uggla Redemption continues. In the first inning, the Braves got singles from Prado and Freeman to bring Uggla up with runners first and third, one out. And he hit into a double play. After that, the Braves were sent down in order for five innings in a row.

Things got hung up at the hospital. I’m out now, and hopefully regular recapping activivities will resume tomorrow. Assuming that the Braves can find a centerfielder.

I’d like to apologize to everyone, especially David Ross, for not having a recap for you today, but a variety of hospital and computer issues have made it impossible. Good news is that I should get out tomorrow around midday.

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Sure, sometimes you’re going to win a game that goes 19 innings on a disputed call at the play that it sure looked like the umpire got wrong. Still, we needed this one, and I’m taking credit, even if I still can’t type worth a damn.

I’m currently zonked out on morphine and percoset, and waiting an X-ray. Let’s just say that I am not currently functioning at 100 percent. Call it Snitker Mode. I also have the manual dexterity of Brooks Conrad playing short, which limits my typing. More later.

Refusing to recap that.

Let’s hope Mac returns tomorrow.

Not recapping, just getting a new thread up.

Everybody, keep Mac, who’ll be in surgery at 5:00 a.m., in your thoughts and prayers. Time for him to get well.

Atlanta Braves vs. Cincinnati Reds – Box Score – July 23, 2011 – ESPN.

Atlanta Braves vs. Colorado Rockies – Box Score – July 20, 2011 – ESPN.

We forfeited the game or something, I dunno. But I just don’t want to talk about it at all.

Atlanta Braves vs. Philadelphia Phillies – Box Score – July 09, 2011 – ESPN.

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The Braves are so hot now that they’re coming from multiple runs down to win easily. Okay, so it was just two runs, but that’s multiple. And just about everyone is hitting, and someone woke up both Dan Uggla and Jason Heyward. Suddenly, the Phillies do not look uncatchable. Guess who’s up now?

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The new argument against Jair Jurrjens, no doubt, will be that the league leader in ERA is getting too many runs scored for him and that’s why he’s 12-3.

Fredi does Fredi things, but the Braves keep winning. At what point do we reach the “we need the eggs” line?

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As I’ve mentioned, one thing that does impress me about Fredi’s management is that he won’t sit by and let Derek Lowe lose the game because he’s a “veteran workhorse”. Fredi realizes that Lowe is a guy who has to have a short leash in the middle innings, and pulls it accordingly. This is a game that Lowe might well have been left in to lose last season.

Do you realize that if the Braves maintain their current record, Fredi could easily be the manager of the year?

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The Braves got a measure of revenge on Ubaldo Jimenez for last year’s no-hitter, and non-All-Star Tommy Hanson went to 10-4 for the year, largely behind the bat of Freddie Freeman. (Remember, Freddie = good, Fredi = bad.)

Ah, America. Where a manager can bring in his worst reliever, with almost his whole bullpen to choose from, in a key situation and not get strung up on orders of the President for Life.

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Same score as last night, but flipped; this time, the Braves again got all their runs in one inning, but not enough.