Chris Hammond, a soon-to-be 37-year-old lefty who pitched for the Braves last season, accepted the deal. |
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The Braves, however, ranked ninth in the league in both scoring average and fielding percentage last season. |
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For the first time in a decade, the Braves seriously must be wondering whether they still are the best team in the N.L. East. |
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Of 102 pitchers in the Braves ' organization, 22 have had Tommy John surgery. |
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This realization struck Jones after last season, when he hit just.077 as the Braves were swept by the Yankees in the World Series. |
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The only starter in that game who did not reach the Hall of Fame was National League center fielder Wally Berger of the Boston Braves. |
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Teams that align their bullpens rapidly are at an advantage, and the Braves have the look of such a club. |
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The Yankees turned to Braves discard C.J. Nitkowski in their latest attempt to find left-handed help for the bullpen. |
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A member of two Super Bowl championship teams, Sanders ' shining moment in baseball came with the 1992 National League champion Braves. |
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Losing Hampton could be a double whammy, a blow to the Mets and a boost to their N.L. East arch rival, the Braves. |
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John Y. Brown, owner of the Buffalo Braves, called Fitz, who had me pick up the extension and listen in. |
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Interleague action against the N.L. East is on the docket, with tough series against the Phillies and Braves. |
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In the second, the Braves catcher lined a comebacker off the pitcher's right hip. |
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New York made it to the National League Championship Series as a Wild Card team last October, losing a cliffhanger series to the Atlanta Braves. |
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If the Braves had been swept in the Division Series, the perception might have been the same. |
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He had revolutionized the news industry and owned CNN, TNT, TBS, New Line Cinema, and the Atlanta Braves. |
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I tried to go see the Danville Braves, but their game was rained out. |
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Except the Braves did not win 14 straight pennants, and Smoltz is a also republican. |
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Between August 8 and September 21, the Braves went 32-7 to take a grip on first place, but were still hard pressed to hold off the unyieldingly stubborn Giants. |
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The Braves, already out of sorts after losing three games they just as easily could have won, were in no mood to be baited. |
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The Yankees got their comeuppance in Milwaukee when the Braves piled up a record score for the first inning of a World Series game. |
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It's been a fortnight of forevers since the Braves could count on a late-game comeback. |
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Franco, a 48-year-old utilityman, signed with Atlanta on Wednesday, rejoining the Braves a week after he was cut by the Mets. |
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Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker has played his last game, at least if civil rights activists have any say in the matter. |
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The Braves hit four more homers in the second game to set a major-league record for a doubleheader. |
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Robinson went 0 for 4, but reached on a throwing error by Boston Braves first baseman Earl Torgeson when he tried a drag bunt. |
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Grant football coach Bill Foster accused Birmingham coaches of intercepting play calls from his headphones in Friday's 30-21 Braves win. |
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George Dukes hockey player was suspended for seven games for an unusual racial slur aimed at a black Tavistock Braves team member. |
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The former Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves player was on hand at The Oaks mall to sign balls, bats, home plates, baseball cards and photographs. |
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The Alexander First Nation Braves will compete in the World Inline Cup, scheduled for July 5 to 11 in London, Ont. |
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In the late 1960's, our closest friend in the majors was Johnny Sain, the former Braves pitching great, who was the Yankees pitching coach at the time. |
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Johnny Sain, a three-time All-Star who teamed with Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves to make up one of baseball's most fabled pitching tandems, died. |
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The Braves retaliated by plunking Harper in the next inning. |
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The infield fly ruling came as a special insult to Braves fans as it was delivered during the final game of beloved player Chipper Jones' 19-year career. |
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Niekro, 318-274 in 24 seasons mostly with the Braves, will join reliever Hoyt Wilhelm as the preeminent knuckleballers in the Hall when he is enshrined as the 229th member. |
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In order to absorb the lupine hunting spirit, Blackfeet braves slept on furs and offered howls of praise to the wolf. |
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But then both heard the war cry of a few of the braves as well as whoops from the cowhands with resounding bullets. |
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Five suns passed, and still another five suns had risen and set, and yet no braves returned. |
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When the Cavalry invested Indian encampments, they periodically encountered warrior braves beside women and children. |
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When Tecumtha's Religion of the Dancing Lakes came to young Creek braves, they were ready to believe in it. |
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Thus begins an adventure in which Measle finds friends, braves dangers, wreaks vengeance and discovers a happy ending. |
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The rebels had been worsted by Jiang Zhongyuan's Hunan braves at Soyi Ford. |
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Thwarting a U.S. raid at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Sioux and Cheyenne braves took no prisoners, killing Custer and 265 of his men. |
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We need our tough-guy writers just like we need everyone who braves the vast fields of unpretentious, popular fiction. |
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The braves made trouble with neighboring tribes, attracting the displeasure of the Canadian Mounties. |
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The party numbered braves from the Penobscot and Kennebec tribes. |
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A minute later, two braves rode off, galloping their horses to the west. |
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When he wanted to travel, he called for his braves, and they would carry him upon a travois, an A-shaped frame made of long poles and a deerskin platform. |
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Kevin, turning the braves into sweetbay magnolia trees rooted to their spots even as-they still arched toward the fire. |
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He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. |
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One of the braves had an ankle bell that chinged when he walked. |
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