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ATLANTA (AP) – Blank innings continued to accumulate, as did strikeouts, shadows began to peek into the infield and when the lights went on in an almost empty stadium for a postseason game that started shortly after noon, it’s as if it could last forever.
I mean, Freddie Freeman had already noticed.
The Most Valuable Player nominee who avoided a terrifying war with the coronavirus at the start of this peak season threw the winning shot in the 13th outset, ending the longest goalless duel in playoff history when the Atlanta Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 in the opening. game of his National League wildcard series on Wednesday.
“It was a very stressful four-and-a-half hour period,” Freeman said with a smile.
The East Champions Braves won their first playoff game for the first time since the first game in the 2001 National League Division series, and on Thursday they will close the third series and break a record streak of 10 playoff games.
“We’re a long way from winning it,” said Atlanta starter Max Fried, who played seven blank innings and was only seven the last time the Braves won a series of playoffs. “I feel ready for tomorrow. “
What began as a clash between Cy Young Fried’s suitors and Cincinnati ace Trevor Bauer became a strike contest that was played in front of a group of relatives and friends in Truist Park.
The combined for a playoff record 37 Ks – 21 through the Braves.
After some hits in 13 against Archie Bradley, Freeman drove one to Amir Garrett’s central area against a five-man inboxer with an out to finish a game that lasted more than four and a half hours.
Freeman, four times All-Star, produced a wonderful year in a season interrupted by a pandemic after a war against COVID-19 in July so serious that he said he had prayed, “Please don’t take me. “
In ’13, it was discovered in one he loves.
“He’s the guy we’re there, ” said manager Brian Snitker.
UNO J. Minter escaped from a traffic jam with a loaded base at the most sensitive time of the 13th to claim victory: in the third consecutive inning, the Reds took a runner to the third but could not take him 90 feet.
“These guys are very proud in those situations,” said Reds manager David Bell.
While there is no denying the historical nature of the first goalless playoff game after innings, he did little to call himself a masterpiece of an unprecedented eight-game playoff game.
While the designated runner at the time was no longer in play for postseason games, two groups that relied a lot on the long ball took turns escaping the marble, passing several opportunities to the tooth runners.
Above all, they lifted anything with a strong breeze.
“We are a very dynamic team,” Snitker said. ” Sometimes that doesn’t happen. “
Bauer lifted up after retiring the first two batters in the eighth, prompting the Braves to cut off the road to the dugout.
“I brought my ‘A’ fit and everything, ” said Bauer. “I’m exhausted. “
The Braves’ only genuine risk opposed to Bauer came here in the sixth, when Ronald Acuña Jr. started with a double opposite the middle wall and climbed to third in Freeman’s field. National League house run and RBI King Marcell Ozuna came off the plate and Travis d’Arnaud hit the swing.
Fried almost pitched one pitch to another with the Cincinnati ace, allowing six hits and withdrawing five.
INITIAL PROBLEMS
At first it didn’t look like a pitcher’s duel.
Nick Senzel and Nick Castellanos play with consecutive singles opposed to Fried, reviving memories of the Braves’ last playoff outing.
In the fifth game of the 2019 National League Division Series, Atlanta lost a 10-point record to the St. Louis Cardinals in his first at-bat. This time, Fried escaped a first and third traffic jam by abandoning Joey Votto, Eugenio Suarez and Mike Moustakas. .
“I’m looking to get out of there with a career,” he said. Luckily for me, I couldn’t get away with it. “
Fried benefited from some key defensive moves.
Castellanos ejected through Adam Duvall seeking to move from the first to the third inning in the sixth. Then, in Fried’s last entry, the Reds’ double fly attempt ended with a pair of balance sheets and Austin Riley eliminated Aristides Aquino just before he got home.
COACH ROOM
Reds: Senzel gave the impression of getting stuck in his left shoulder by hitting in the front row in a pitch in the third, but remained in the game.
Bravos: There were injury disorders after Atlanta’s last regular-season series, but they were all in a position to reach the playoffs.
Following
Reds: RH Luis Castillo (4-6, 3. 21 ERA) makes his first playoff opening.
Bravos: Rookie RH Ian Anderson (3-2, 1. 95) gave Atlanta’s turbulent rotation great enthusiasm when he called from the exchange education site last August.
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