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Bill Madden: Braves have the edge on the Mets, now and into the winter

NEW YORK — Hard as it must be for the Citi Field faithful to accept the fact the Mets won 101 games, the second-most wins in their history, and still wound up as a wild card, there is this dose of hard reality: The Braves were simply a better team.

Tribune News Service · Oct 9, 2022

Mets can’t give Max Scherzer much support in 4-2 loss to Braves

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves have quite possibly one of the deepest lineups in baseball. The Mets assembled a starting pitching rotation that they believed could counter that lineup.

Tribune News Service · Oct 2, 2022

How the Tiebreaker Rule Impacts the MLB Playoff Race

The most consequential series this weekend is between the top two teams in the NL East, the only division race that still isn’t decided. The Braves host the Mets in a three-game set at Truist Park in Atlanta. New York currently holds a one-game lead in the NL East, and…

Sports Illustrated · Sep 30, 2022

Mark Bradley: The Braves are really, really good. Get used to it.

Ten days ago, the Braves left New York having lost four of five to the Mets, whose lead in the National League East had grown to 6.5 games. The Braves had lost three in a row for the first time in 2022. They weren’t quite reeling, but they’d suffered a…

Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022

Tyler Naquin hits two of Mets' four HRs in victory over Atlanta

NEW YORK — The Mets pulled out all the stops on Thursday night in a 6-4 win over Atlanta before 38,693 at Citi Field.

Newsday · Aug 5, 2022

Rookie Michael Harris does it all in Braves’ win over Nationals

Michael Harris wowed all spectators – as he often does – in the Braves’ 5-4 win over Washington on Thursday at Nationals Park.

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

Michael Cunningham: Young Braves will be championship contenders for a while

Their 349-264 record since the start of the 2018 season ranks fifth best in the majors behind the Dodgers, Yankees, Astros and Rays. The Braves are the only team from that group to win four consecutive division titles. Only the Dodgers, with two pennants and one championship, bested the Braves’…

Tribune News Service · Jun 22, 2022

Cubs win strange game as Braves lose series at Wrigley Field

CHICAGO — The team that entered this series on a 14-game win streak has lost two in a row to the team that had lost 10 in a row before this. Baseball can be weird.

Tribune News Service · Jun 19, 2022

Adam Duvall homers twice as Braves win 11th straight, sweep Pirates

ATLANTA — It wasn’t that long ago Adam Duvall was among the Braves’ least productive players. When 33-year-olds struggle, sometimes better days aren’t ahead. Duvall endured his fair share of criticism as he and his team underwhelmed.

Tribune News Service · Jun 12, 2022

A’s start hot, then go ice cold as losing streak hits seven games

Ramón Laureano drove in two first-inning runs to give the A’s an early spark in Atlanta, but that was all the offense Oakland mustered in another rough showing for a disappointing lineup in a 3-2 loss to the Braves on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Jun 8, 2022