Braves, the only team without MLB victories, see offensive troubles continue at the loss of Dodgers

Los Angeles-Con Ace Chris climbs on the mound, the Atlanta Braves book needed a victory on Tuesday at the Dodger stadium almost as much as any team that expected may need a victory in the first week of a season of 162 games.

Not only did the Braves lost the first five games, but had marked a race in the last three games and had not obtained an advantage from the middle during the open of the season in San Diego. Their offense was the worst of the NL, their launch staff was already unleashing losses and the offseason quiet of their front office was worsening day by day.

So yes, they really needed a victory.

They didn’t take it.

Two-to-heat Homer by Mookie Betts out of sale in the Sesto Inning gave the unbeaten their first advantage to Los Angeles Dodgers and would not have given him up a 3-1 victory at the Dodger Stadium, dropping the Braves to 0-6, their worst start from the worst team of 2016 lost its first nine.

They are the only team without victories in the Major League baseball and Braves are the last in most of the offensive categories, including an average of .137 and .458 Ops with nine points in six games. They are easily the worst of the majors when they hit with the runners on the basis of .076 (6-for-55), including a 1-for-34 almost unfathomable with the runners in a score position.

“I can’t explain it,” said Braves’ manager Brian Snitker of the painful affected. “I am sure they are pressing. This is human nature, pressing when everyone wants to be the boy. They are not taking it (with them) in defense, this is certain. They are playing the devil from the defensive side of the ball.”

The Skid that opens the season is now two longer games than the worst from any braves team that has ever advanced to the post-installation. Atlanta, collected by many experts such as the team with the best possibilities to eliminate the World Series champion in office in the NL in the NL, is located alone in the NL East, four games behind Philadelphia.

“It was just difficult,” said Sale, the winner in office of the Cy Young Award, who was accused of three points in five inning in each of his first two departures. “We haven’t really played very well as a whole and we didn’t click. It is obviously bad, but the good news is that you look around and see who is here, you know there is only one matter of time, right?

“And fortunately, at this point of the season, we have time. We don’t want to lean on too much so hard; you want to make it go on in the end. But we have confidence in this Club House and in who we have and what we can do.”

Several current Braves were in circulation when the 2021 team began 0-4 and continued to win the World Series. Some were part of the 2022 team which was four games lower than .500 after 50, so they pulled out a series of wins of 14 games on the road for a season of 101 wins and the fifth of their six consecutive titles NL East.

This means that Snitker and some players and coaches know how quickly things can change. But so far, the Braves have not shown any sign of being a team that is about to increase.

When they took a 1-0 advantage in the second inning, it was a race not acquired after a Betts error on the back of a potential double game of inning from Bryan de la Cruz. The Braves went without strokes in six AT-BAT with the runners in a score position.

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It was their first advantage since Austin Riley’s fifth house took them forward 4-3 the opening day, in a game that lost 7-4.

“It is a difficult start,” said Marcell Ozuna, who had one of the three shots of the Braves – a single advantage in the second inning – and their only race on Tuesday. “But I had the feeling that as soon as we go home, we will be fine, for sure.”

Before facing the Marlin (4-2) in the opening of the house on Friday, the Braves have another possibility of avoiding a week without victories outside the west. It will be a great question: Bryce Elder has returned from Triple to to start Wednesday’s ending instead of the injured Reynaldo López, and will face the winner of Cy Young Blake Snell twice in front of another huge and turbulent crowd, where the frequency has exceeded 50,000 for each of the first two games of the series.

To add to their miserable week, a magnetic resonance imaging on the Balky shoulder of López was inconclusive and the team announced Tuesday that it will have a arthroscopic surgery next week in Los Angeles. It will be an exploratory procedure by Dr. Neal Elattrache, the surgeon who made the Star of Braves Ronald Acuña Jr. The knee intervention last May. The Braves will not know the extent of the lesion of López or the calendar for his return until the surgery.

The Braves put López on the wound list on Monday with a preliminary diagnosis of inflammation of the shoulder, and the hope is that it will only need a clean procedure and could return to launch again later this season.

In the meantime, the Braves will have to rely on artists of the caliber of Elder, Aj Smith-Shawver and Grant Holmes to manage the start of the rotation, with Schwellenbach Spencer now actually their appetizer n. 2 behind the sale. They could have 2023 MLB victories and the leader of Strikeout Spencer Screer at the end of this month after a year rehabilitation from the elbow surgery of the internal embers.

With the sale on the mound Tuesday, Braves liked their possibilities despite their terrible offense to date. They knew that a race or two could be enough if the sale was at the top of his game, and for a while it was, withdrawing 12 out of 13 jokes in a stretch through the fifth inning. Betts was the only Dodger to reach the base in that time; He was hit by a shot.

But the sale seemed to tire of it while the game proceeded and did not touch 95 mph with any fast ball for the three beats he faced in the sixth: Shohei Ohtani (single advantage), Betts (Homer on a 1-1 cursor suspended in the middle) and Tommy Edman (single).

“It’s not one of the best championships in the championship in the event of an accident,” said Betts. “Chris launched a really good game. Really just a kind of swing, and luckily it was me, and he passed the fence. I was looking for something to hit. He launches many strikes. I think he launched 70 types to go to swing.

After Edman’s single, Pierce Johnson entered to replace the sale. Johnson got a Strikeout before surrendering to Will Smith who scored Edman, who had stolen the second and advanced in third place with a wrong shot by the debutant Drake Baldwin catcher.

The sale was accused of four shots, three points (all earned) and no walk and had five strikeouts.

“Five inning, three races, won’t give you too much,” he said of his release. “So, I would like to be able to do better.”

(Photo by Bryan de la Cruz: Ronald Martinez / Getty Images)