Atlanta Braves: Misery continues as Diamondbacks walk it off

The Atlanta Braves opened a series with the Arizona Diamondbacks Thursday evening and the losing streak continued to four as they lost 3-2 in extra innings.

The bad part is the Atlanta Braves had the lead in the bottom of the 9th and had 2 outs and blew it.

Let’s now take a look at three takeaways from the extra innings affair.

1. Outstanding Defense

Both teams played outstanding defense as was evidenced by the fact this game was a 1-1 pitching duel entering the 9th inning.

Josh Donaldson was making some Chipper Jones-type one-handed plays at the hot corner and the rest of the Braves seemed to have straightened up some defense that had plagued them in the Dodger series.

On the other side, the Diamondbacks were phenomenal in the field as well.

David Peralta (the enemy with the bat in the 9th) made an outstanding play in left late in the game.

However, the real defender that killed us was right fielder Adam Jones.

Adam Jones made two plays late in the game that were great, including robbing a home run in the 8th inning off the bat of Brian McCann.

The funny thing is our own Jake Mastroianni just wrote an article about how the defense is not performing as well as it did in 2018, which he is not wrong at all about, but at least for this one night the defense proved to be as good as it was last year.

The Atlanta Braves will need to continue to play defense as well as they did Thursday and hope the other team doesn’t perform as well as the Dbacks did Thursday going forward.