Braves win game one of NLCS vs Dodgers playing Pablo Sandoval at third, Austin Riley in left, rookie Christian Pache in center, & Charlie Culbertson in right. Braves getting banged up. Duval out of the playoffs with an oblique injury.
Hard hit ball gets Albies on the wrist. Freddie gets hit in the elbow. Not boding well for the Bravos.
Fried will get another start against the Dodgers. Ian Anderson will too, if the Braves don’t clinch first. See where Dodger starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw was scratched from tonight’s game, with back spasms. Could be Fried in game 5 and Anderson in game six. At worst Fried in game 6 and Anderson in game seven. Probably will be determined on how the series is going for the Braves. Best of seven. I do wish Fried would pitch games 1, 4, and 7, but probably not.
Wore shorts to small group last night because my friend Rob always does. Got to church and realized Rob was out of town this week. Group ended right at 8 pm. I was almost home when I realized my car was almost out of gas. Made a U-turn and headed back to the station. Ceil texted that Freddie had homered in the top of the first.
Also needed to stop by Kroger, so it was after 8:30 when I got home. Was okay, as here in the playoffs I almost don’t want to watch. For the entire top and bottom of the 9th inning I didn’t move on the couch. Planning on wearing the same outfit for tonight’s game.
The story of the town that a movie studio is building from scratch, south of the Atlanta airport.
Denison: In Christ the Eternal Son, A. W. Tozer defined "accepting Christ" as having "an attachment to the person of Christ that is revolutionary, complete, and exclusive." He explained that this "attachment" is "revolutionary in that it reverses the life and transforms it completely. It is an attachment to the person of Christ. It is complete in that it leaves no part of the life unaffected. It exempts no area of the life of the total man."
R.I.P. Joe Morgan, one of the all-time greats. Everyone can’t be your favorite player. Morgan was okay as a player, but he wasn’t my favorite announcer. Maybe because he told it like it was. Upbeat as a player, not so much as an announcer. Astro, Red, Giant, Phillie, Athletic. Did I miss one?
JOE MORGAN [SABR Bio] the Texas native is the only second baseman to win the MVP in successive seasons - NL MVP in 1975 & 1976. If a handful of first-place MVP votes hadn’t gone to his stellar teammates, both votes for him would have been a unanimous. In 1975, Pete Rose’s two 1st-place votes were the only ones Morgan didn’t receive and in ’76 George Foster received 5 of the 26 votes. In each year, Morgan had the remainder of the votes. Rose & Foster in turn, each won an NL MVP, 1973 & 1977 respectively (neither by unanimous vote). His team won the World Series in each of those seasons, in 75 & 76.
He holds the consecutive-National League All-Star game hitting streak record. Morgan had a hit in each of seven All-Star Games, in 1970, representing HOU and in 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 & 77 for CIN. (Historians are still pondering why he didn’t make the team in 1971.) Mickey Mantle & Dave Winfield have similar 7 G streaks for NYY in AL AS competition. His Hall of Fame manager called him, “…the greatest offensive player I ever managed.” CIN mgr. Sparky Anderson was no stranger to exaggeration, but in this case, it’s hard to doubt him. Teammate Pete Rose once said, “I'm not bad. I'm no Joe Morgan.” Rose began his career as a second baseman so comparisons were inevitable.
Teammate Johnny Bench averred, “(he) wasn’t just the best second baseman in baseball history, he was the best player I ever saw and one of the best people I’ve ever known.” Bench played with and against some of the best players in history. Bill James has called him the best second baseman ever. James is famous for the thoroughness of his evaluations. After retiring, he was often heard broadcasting and providing color commentary for major league games, sharing duties behind the mic with some of the best in the business. He was a baseball broadcaster for CIN, SFG and ESPN, teaming with, among others, Jon Miller, Bob Costas and Bob Uecker. He hosted a weekly nationally-syndicated radio show on Sports USA.
In addition to serving as vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, he was involved in numerous community and national efforts on behalf of baseball. His 246th career home run caused the reigning World Series champions to miss postseason play. On 03-Oct-1982, playing for SFG, Morgan homered in the 7th inning HR off LAD’s Terry Forster to help seal the fate for the Dodgers and hand Atlanta the NL West division championship. It would help him win the Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award for 1982.
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