Thanks so much, Greg.
Braves legend Greg Maddux was all too joyful to kick the Mets whereas they had been down on Tuesday evening, shortly after Atlanta clinched the NL East.
“Even after 2 many years it’s nonetheless good to see the Braves beat the New York Mets. Congrats Atlanta!” the Corridor of Famer tweeted on Tuesday evening.
The Braves did, in reality, full an epic comeback from 10 1/2 video games down within the division with a 2-1 victory over the Marlins on Tuesday evening. Atlanta will now be the No. 2 seed within the MLB playoffs. The Mets should play a best-of-three collection with the Padres this weekend at Citi Discipline within the wild-card spherical. The winner of that collection will play the Dodgers within the NLDS.
“To maintain plugging alongside and the consistency that these guys confirmed all through the entire yr,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker mentioned. “Coming to work on daily basis and worrying about at the moment. They didn’t get caught up that we had been behind.”
The Braves ripped the division lead away from the Mets this previous weekend with a three-game sweep in Atlanta. That turned a one-game Braves deficit right into a two-game lead and it put their magic quantity to at least one heading into Miami.
“I'm feeling a lot happiness and pleasure,” star outfielder Ronald Acuña mentioned after the defending World Sequence champs claimed their fifth straight NL East title. “Final yr, I couldn’t expertise this due to my harm. I'm so joyful to be part of this membership.”
Maddux was the ace of a Braves group that dominated the division all through many of the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. The correct-hander, who went 35-19 with a 3.36 ERA in 66 profession begins in opposition to the Mets, was inducted into the Corridor of Fame in 2014.
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