Atlanta Circled Wednesday For Me

Atlanta circled Wednesday for me.

Sunday morning I wrote that this team was promised one home game, not two, and that anyone who had already circled Wednesday was watching a different series than I was. Then Atlanta won 3-2 at Dodger Stadium and turned Wednesday into a fact.

That take had a six-hour shelf life. I am not going to tell you it was wrong when I filed it, because it wasn't, and I did say Wednesday was more likely than not. But "promised one, not two" is dead. The series is 1-1. Game 3 can only make it 2-1. Game 4 has to be played. Truist Park gets both of them.

Here is the number I actually care about.

Los Angeles has scored seven runs in this series. Every one of them came on a home run. Five swings across two games and nothing else - Teoscar Hernandez, Kyle Tucker and Max Muncy in Game 1, then Freddie Freeman and Muncy again on Sunday.

Atlanta's three runs on Sunday came on a single, a wild pitch and a double.

That is the series in two lines. One team is waiting on a swing. The other just went out and won without one - against Blake Snell, who did not give up a home run in nine starts all season, and who still walked five men and needed 90 pitches to get eleven outs because Atlanta refused to help him.

Nobody is the favorite here. It is level, and Atlanta won the game it had to win on the road.

But I said one home game. Atlanta went and got two. If this thing goes the distance, Sunday is the night I will point at - the night this lineup stopped waiting for the thing it doesn't have.

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