Atlanta Braves Events

1974 Apr 8 Hank Aaron Hits Home Run No. 715, Breaks Babe Ruth's Record
As the 1974 season began, Aaron's pursuit of the record caused a small controversy. The Braves opened the season on the road in Cincinnati with a three-game series against the Cincinnati...
1991 Oct 19
to 1991 Oct 27
 1991 World Series
The 1991 World Series was played between the Minnesota Twins (95–67) of the American League and the Atlanta Braves (94–68) of the National League between October 19 and October 27, 1991. ...
1992 Oct 17
to 1992 Oct 24
 1992 World Series
The 1992 World Series was the first Series ever with games played outside the United States of America. It pitted the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays against the National Leagu...
1995 Oct 21
to 1995 Oct 28
 1995 World Series
1995 World Series After losing the World Series to the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and falling to the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Championship in '93, the Atlanta Braves...
1996 Oct 20
to 1996 Oct 26
 1996 World Series
1996 World Series The 1996 season witnessed what would eventually become the fourth installment of the New York Yankees dynasty. To date, the Bronx Bombers had already dominated three ...
1999 Oct 23
to 1999 Oct 27
 1999 World Series
1999 World Series As baseball prepared to close its books on the twentieth century, it seemed fitting that the team who had dominated most of it was returning for their thirty-sixth Fa...
2004 May 18 Randy Johnson Pitches a Perfect Game
Randy Johnson had pretty much done it all -- Cy Young Awards, a no-hitter, strikeout records, a World Series championship. Only one thing was missing in his brilliant career, that rare...
2004 Jul 2 Atlanta Braves defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-3
ATLANTA -- So this is the way it's going to be? A knee-buckling body blow in the Bronx one night, an anguishing ambush in Atlanta the next? The only constant, it seems, in this recent ...
2004 Jul 3 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 6-1
ATLANTA -- This is what a good parent does during first semester of freshman year when there's evidence that the child who's away at school is failing. You hop on a plane and go to the sc...
2004 Jul 4 Atlanta Braves defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-4
ATLANTA -- The way the walls are falling around them, May 27 may be a date that lives in infamy for the 2004 Red Sox. They awakened at home that morning with a five-game winning streak an...
2005 May 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-3
It was another nail-biting finish by Keith Foulke, who decided after allowing two runs in the ninth that he no longer wanted to talk about ''negative [stuff]." And the closer is right. Th...
2005 May 21 Atlanta Braves defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-5
Your eyes tell you playing baseball is a monumental struggle for Edgar Renteria and Manny Ramirez these days, but then you hear Red Sox captain Jason Varitek say Renteria is ''just about ...
2005 May 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 5-2
The frustrations of Edgar Renteria continued yesterday as the Red Sox beat the Braves, 5-2, in the final game of their weekend series at Fenway Park. Everybody in the lineup got a hit ...
2006 Jun 16 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-1
ATLANTA -- The Red Sox needed something galvanizing last night, preferably someone, preferably a pitcher. The club landed here at about 4 a.m. yesterday and, upon convening at the park at...
2006 Jun 17 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 5-3
ATLANTA -- To look out at left field at Turner Field an hour after yesterday's 5-3 Red Sox win, long after the Tomahawk Chop cries and stadium bells and whistles had gone silent, was to l...
2006 Jun 18 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 10-7
ATLANTA -- With just one Rudy Seanez pitch, delivered at 86 miles per hour with next-to-no movement, except for the arc it traced on its way out of the ballpark, this looked like a 2-4 ro...
2007 May 19 Atlanta Braves defeat Boston Red Sox, 14-0
The choreography for another splendid day for the Red Sox was in place yesterday afternoon: The rain abated, Daisuke Matsuzaka was aces, the bats boomed, and a couple of hundred miles to ...
2007 May 19 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 13-3
The choreography for another splendid day for the Red Sox was in place yesterday afternoon: The rain abated, Daisuke Matsuzaka was aces, the bats boomed, and a couple of hundred miles to ...
2007 May 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 6-3
By the time Kason Gabbard left the mound yesterday, afternoon had turned into early evening, pouring rain had given way to a sunny, settled blue calm, and the lefthander had changed the d...
2007 Jun 18 Atlanta Braves defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-4
ATLANTA -- Only 11 days have passed since Curt Schilling dabbled with immortality, coming within one out of a no-hitter. Could he have gotten this old, this fast? Or was Chipper Jon...
2007 Jun 19 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-0
ATLANTA--It was one of those just-between-slugger moments: David Ortiz huddling with Barry Bonds when the Giants visited Fenway Park last weekend. "One of the things he told me," Ortiz...
2007 Jun 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 11-0
ATLANTA -- Julian Tavarez may not look like the type to send flowers, chocolates, or balloons, but he couldn't have delivered a better pick-me-up than the one he sent to Curt Schilling, p...
2008 Aug 19 New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 7-3
2008 Sep 13 Atlanta Braves defeat New York Mets, 3-2
The two-time Cy Young winner didn't get the required help from teammates to come away with a victory. The rookie earned his first big-league win to salvage a split. Go figure. After th...
2008 Sep 14 Atlanta Braves defeat New York Mets, 7-4
The Mets' bullpen collapses have become an old story. The club and its fans can only hope their season won't turn into an even older one. The man in the middle of the latest collapse w...
2008 Sep 19 New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 9-5
ATLANTA - Division winner? Wild card? Jerry Manuel doesn't care. "Regardless of how you get in, we've got to get in," the Mets' interim manager said. "The wild-card teams have done ext...
2008 Sep 20 Atlanta Braves defeat New York Mets, 4-2
ATLANTA - Scratch another game off the Mets' magic number to reach the postseason, even if Cincinnati did the work to reduce it to six. Pedro Martinez's two RBI didn't offset the four ...
2008 Sep 21 Atlanta Braves defeat New York Mets, 7-6
ATLANTA - Surely you didn't expect the final week would be a drama-free prelude to the postseason, did you? The Mets failed to protect a two-run lead over the final three innings and l...
2009 Apr 27 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Atlanta Braves, 3-2
ATLANTA - The last time Joel Piñeiro won four consecutive starts occurred during the Seattle Mariners' Summer of '03, when Ryan Franklin shared a berth in the M's rotation. Before this...
2009 Apr 28 Atlanta Braves defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 2-1
ATLANTA - Kyle Lohse showed up for Tuesday's start five days removed from having an MRI performed on his right knee. Within hours Lohse was fighting a losing battle against nausea. ...
2009 Apr 29 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Atlanta Braves, 5-3
ATLANTA - In three pristine nights at less-than-half-filled Turner Field, the Cardinals had two shortstops and one extra-base hit drop. They left with two wins. For all of Tuesday's...
2009 May 4 New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 6-4
ATLANTA - Maybe the Mets do have an edge. Well, at least a pulse. Carlos Beltran slugged a pair of two-run homers and David Wright also had a two-run shot as the Mets beat the Braves, ...
2009 May 5 New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-3
ATLANTA - Carlos Delgado was proud of his performance during Tuesday night's final inning in one respect. "Game-winning RBI," he said about his two-run single in the ninth, which gave clo...
2009 May 11 Atlanta Braves defeat New York Mets, 8-3
Johan Santana and Derek Lowe are neighbors who live three homes apart in Fort Myers, Fla., during the offseason. They could have been teammates, too, if the Mets had anted up. Of cours...
2009 May 12 New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-3
Carlos Beltran didn't need to swing this time. After all, Braves reliever Jeff Bennett didn't exactly deliver a pitch the caliber of that Adam Wainwright curveball in Game 7 of the 2006 N...
2009 May 13 Atlanta Braves defeat New York Mets, 8-7
Gary Sheffield knew when he arrived in New York in April that his opportunities to star might be few. But Wednesday, Sheffield was given the rare chance to come up big for the Mets twi...
2009 Jun 7 Atlanta Braves defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 8-7
Atlanta – Carlos Villanueva insisted he wasn't tired. His pitches suggested otherwise. Pitching for the third consecutive game Sunday, the Milwaukee Brewers reliever made enough mistak...
2009 Jun 12 Atlanta Braves defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-2
In one of his rare public admissions of frustration, Orioles manager Dave Trembley said before Friday's series opener against the Atlanta Braves that he is worn out by having to answer th...
2009 Jun 13 Baltimore Orioles defeat Atlanta Braves, 8-4
FINALLY Adam Jones not only broke out of a 1-for-18 slump with his two-run, first-inning homer off Kenshin Kawakami, but he also ended the Orioles' homerless stretch for batters not na...
2009 Jun 14 Baltimore Orioles defeat Atlanta Braves, 11-2
Stealing home The Orioles' base running has been widely criticized this season, but a mistake Sunday turned into the club's fifth run and first steal of home since Corey Patterson did ...
2009 Jun 19 Atlanta Braves defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-2
When Daisuke Matsuzaka walked off the mound two batters into the fifth inning last night, he was walking away from a chance to prove to himself, to his teammates, and to his coaches and m...
2009 Jun 19 Dice K takes loss, as Red Sox lose to Braves in game 67 of season, 8 - 2
Before the Red Sox came to bat, Boston was already in an early hole. Daisuke Matsuzaka's first pitch of the game was a homer to Nate McLouth, and from that point on, the righty was clearl...
2009 Jun 20 Beckett tosses shutout for 3 - 0 win against the Atlanta Braves in the 68th game of season for Red Sox
One night after Daisuke Matsuzaka walked off the Fenway Park mound searching for answers, Josh Beckett reaffirmed on Saturday night that the top of the Red Sox rotation is just fine. W...
2009 Jun 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 3-0
Both had stood on the Fenway Park mound for the biggest of moments. Both had shown postseason genius, helping lead the Red Sox to a curse-breaking championship and a greatness-solidifying...
2009 Jun 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 6-5
As Nick Green pulled around second base, the baseball having tucked itself into the right-field corner behind the Pesky Pole, he noticed a commotion at the plate. Amid the mist and fog an...
2009 Jun 21 Nick Green hits walkoff home run for Red Sox, defeats Atlanta Braves 6 - 5 in 69th game of season
After hitting a walk-off home run to sink the Red Sox back in 2004, shortstop Nick Green did the same to his former club by smashing the first pitch he saw in the ninth inning around Pesk...
2009 Jun 24 New York Yankees defeat Atlanta Braves, 8-4
ATLANTA - Maybe it was Brian Cashman's surprise visit or Joe Girardi's not-so-surprising ejection. Perhaps it was a team meeting Tuesday night or the embarrassment of having a perfect gam...
2009 Jun 25 New York Yankees defeat Atlanta Braves, 11-7
ATLANTA - After watching Alex Rodriguez swing the bat Thursday night, Joe Girardi may never rest him again. A-Rod had his best game in a month, helping the Yankees to an 11-7 win over ...
2009 Jun 26 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-1
ATLANTA - As a rule - and a prudent one, at that - manager Terry Francona avoids Josh Beckett when he pitches. That goes for before and during games. Why face that intensity, that competi...
2009 Jun 27 Boston Red Sox defeat Atlanta Braves, 1-0
ATLANTA - When they have needed him - the day after Daisuke Matsuzaka’s disastrous start in Oakland, in a duel against Cliff Lee in Cleveland - Tim Wakefield has been there for the Red So...