Only half of MLB's six division leaders have a positive run differential:

+62 #Braves
+57 Dodgers
+28 Yankees
-3 Reds
-7 Guardians
-17 Athletics

I love Uncle Ben's rice

That's because Paul Byrd has Braves blood in his veins!

11 more years and he's still 50 games short...

43 WAR before turning 31 including a 20-win season and a no-hitter, followed by 387 saves as a dominant reliever. I'm not sure I'd call his decade as a starter a waste. He was HOF-bound either way.

Craig Kimbrel has tied Billy Wagner with 853 career games pitched. Kimbrel, Chapman, and Jansen are slowly passing some NAMES on this leaderboard (via Baseball Reference).

No other active pitcher is within 200 games of Kimbrel.

💻 www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/

Cal Ripken Jr's 2,632 consecutive games streak covers regular season only.

There were also 28 straight postseason games during the streak.

And he played in all 16 All-Star Games during the streak.

2,676 anyone?

Longest MLB consecutive game streaks:

2632 Cal Ripken Jr
2130 Lou Gehrig
1307 Everett Scott
1207 Steve Garvey
1152 Miguel Tejada
1117 Billy Williams
1103 Joe Sewell
895 Stan Musial
829 Eddie Yost
822 Gus Suhr
800 Matt Olson 🚨active🚨
798 Nellie Fox
745 Pete Rose
740 Dale Murphy
730 Richie Ashburn

Best regular season ERA since August 20, minimum 60 innings:

1.70 Max Fried
1.94 Tarik Skubal
2.31 Bryce Elder 👀

#BravesCountry

Even in last night's loss, every #Braves batter in the starting lineup reached base successfully by hit or walk.

So the lineup is still clicking. Let's go!

The #Braves are #4 in MLB with 5.62 runs scored per game and #1 in MLB with 2.75 runs allowed per game. 😎

The run differential of +46 (+2.88 per game) is more than half a run per game better than the second-best Dodgers (+35, +2.33 per game. 👀

This is the first time the #Braves had 19 or more hits in a game since 2023, when they did it once each in May, June, July, and August.

But it's the second time this season they've reached base 22+ times: they reached 24 times on April 2.

What a nice streak it was...

The #Braves loss tonight drops them to a pace for 97+ wins on the season.

Coming into tonight, the #Braves had the longest streak of not being shutout in the NL, and second longest in MLB. Only a pretty solid offense can accomplish that. Ah well, back to zero.

Anybody else here the "let's go!" kid on the #BravesVision broadcast just now, reminiscent of "let's go Pirates"?

Team Starters ERA

Team Bullpen ERA

Team Barrel%

Bryce Elder's last 9 starts via @Stathead Span Finder:

57.2 IP, 45 H, 10 BB, 1 HBP, 54 K, 2.18 ERA

Go #Braves
#RespectYourElders

Just played a word and these letters popped up in my tile rack.

@combatcandy.bsky.social What are your thoughts on Walt Weiss's takedown of Jorge Soler last night?

Imagine if they hadn't lost three straight 1-run games to the Marlins to start the season

He knows what Walt Weiss can do

Of the 16 MLB franchises that have been around since 1901 or earlier, the most-recent career games record breakers are:

1. José Ramírez, Guardians (today)
2. Derek Jeter, Yankees (2011)
3. Cal Ripken, Orioles (2001)
4. Mike Schmidt, Phillies (1985)
5. Bert Campaneris, Athletics (1976)

The 2026 #Braves won 3 straight in games 6-8 then promptly lost 3 straight in games 9-11.

The only other seasons in which the Braves won 3 straight in games 6-8 then promptly lost 3 straight in games 9-11?

1995 and 2021

💻 @retrosheet.bsky.social

The classroom I was in for the OJ verdict had a 17 inch TV mounted in the corner. When I see one of those roly carts, every time I hear...

🎶 Butterfly in the sky... I can go twice is high... 🎶

The #Braves 66 regular season games is the longest streak in the NL and second-longest in MLB without being shutout.

Here are the remaining 11 teams to score run in every game of 2026 so far, per @stathead.com Team Streak Finder.

I just realized I made it on my last birthday almost a year ago