DONE, BY ONE RUN: Braves Can’t Hold Early Game 7 Lead, Fall 4-3 as Dodgers...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – They only lost three games in a row once in the regular season. They held an early lead in the decisive game of the National League...
View ArticleONE LAST SHOT: Braves Take Final Swing at NL Pennant, World Series Berth as...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – Two teams. One game. One pennant. One World Series berth. One season extender. One season ender. Zero margin for error. The Atlanta Braves...
View ArticlePARTY POOPERS: Dodgers Make Braves Pay for Missed Opportunities, Force NLCS...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – This has nothing to do with curses and jinxes and narratives long since exhausted, and everything to do with lack of execution and failure...
View ArticleON THE BRINK: Braves Bash Dodgers in Game 4, Sit One Victory from the World...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – The Atlanta Braves were pounded into submission in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday, and while they held a 2-1...
View ArticleNOT THE WRIGHT STUFF: It’s Now a Series After Dodgers Destroy Braves in Game 3
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – You knew the Los Angeles Dodgers were not going to slide quietly into the night in this National League Championship Series. There would be...
View ArticleJUST ENOUGH: Braves Hold On At The Finish, Take 2-0 NLCS Lead
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – Supposedly, the Atlanta Braves owned the second-best lineup entering this National League Championship Series. Supposedly, their hitters...
View ArticleFINE IN NINE: Late Power Show Vaults Braves in NLCS Opener
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – It started as Ronald Acuna Jr. walked to home plate for the first at-bat of the first game of the National League Championship Series on...
View ArticleNLCS Preview: Braves Look the Part, but Do They Have Enough to Topple Favored...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – They came home from the west coast having been outscored 9-0 in two games, walking into that new ballpark at the confluence of Interstates...
View ArticleWaiting on a Familiar Foe as NLCS Approaches
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – A gray T-shirt caught my eye in the pile of laundry sitting by the washing machine Friday afternoon, one I hadn’t noticed in a while, one my...
View ArticleCAPTURE THE FLAG! BRAVES SWEEP, HEAD TO NLCS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2001
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – They didn’t know if there even would be a season. Their best player missed most of summer camp with COVID-19. Their starting pitching...
View ArticleNLDS Preview: Braves Winning Playoff Series Will Pay Dividends Now and In the...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – Marcell Ozuna paused halfway down the first-base line, raised his left arm in the air and clicked his now-famous faux selfie. In the...
View Article2020 Season Preview: With Fingers Crossed, We Arrive at an Opening Day Like...
Editor’s Note: Braves Wire writer Bud L. Ellis has missed just two Atlanta Braves home openers in the past 40 years. To him, Opening Day and the start of baseball season is when “life begins again.”...
View ArticleA Sobering Fourth, Positive Tests, and Should We Even Try to Do This?
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com SOMEWHERE IN NORTH GEORGIA – The Fourth of July normally is a celebration of all things Americana, complete with summer heat, burgers on the grill, family and friends...
View ArticleThe Newest Baby Braves Usher in a New Era
The Top 10 of the 2010s, Part 5 By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – We conclude my look back at the top 10 most memorable moments of Braves baseball I watched in person in the 2010s with a focus...
View ArticleWhat Could’ve, Should’ve, Would’ve Been
The Top 10 of the 2010s, Part 2 By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – It’s time for part two of my top 10 most memorable moments of Braves baseball I watched in person in the 2010s, looking at...
View Articled’Arnaud Signing Sets Stage for Big Winter Moves
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – When Yasmani Grandal signed a four-year deal Thursday with the White Sox, it removed the one game-changing free agent catcher from the market. Nonetheless, as...
View ArticleNightmare First Inning Ends Season, But Braves Blew NLDS Before Game 5
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – The witnesses looked at each other in absolute shock at what had unfolded during the 26-minute train wreck of a half inning they just watched. The energy, the...
View ArticleWINNERS, AND STILL CHAMPIONS!! BRAVES SILENCE DOUBTERS ONCE AND FOR ALL WITH...
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – It never gets old. It doesn’t matter how many times it happens. It doesn’t matter if it comes out of left field or becomes an annual occurrence. It never,...
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With East All but Secure, Braves Turn Attention to Greater Goals
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – Once upon a time, back in the early days of spring when the prognosticators were offering their forecast for the 2019 season, there was little national regard...
View ArticleMessage Delivered: Braves Beat L.A., Make Statement
By Bud L. Ellis BravesWire.com ATLANTA – Braves fans metaphorically circled this third weekend in August the moment their return-to-prominence 2018 season expired last October at the hands of the Los...
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