[net-gold] SPORTS: BASEBALL: PROFESSIONAL: Braves Complete Epic Collapse with Loss to Phillies, Give Up Wild Card to Surging Cardinals
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- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:22:48 -0400 (EDT)
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SPORTS: BASEBALL: PROFESSIONAL:
Braves Complete Epic Collapse with Loss to Phillies,
Give Up Wild Card to Surging Cardinals
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Braves Complete Epic Collapse with Loss to Phillies,
Give Up Wild Card to Surging Cardinals
By Associated Press
Updated: Thursday, September 29, 4:16 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/
braves-complete-epic-collapse-with-loss-to-phillies-give-up-
wild-card-to-surging-cardinals/2011/09/29/gIQAG0uW6K_story.html
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ATLANTA Nearly an hour after one more loss in a historic collapse,
Freddie Freeman walked through the Braves clubhouse still wearing his No.
5 uniform, as if he couldnt believe hed be taking it off for the final
time this year.
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Indeed, the season is over.
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Its going to take a long time to get over this one.
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With a September swoon that ranked right up there with all those playoff
flops in the 1990s and 2000s, Atlanta frittered away a wild card that
seemed a certainly just a few weeks ago. Instead, its St. Louis heading to
the playoffs, while the Braves have all winter to figure out what went
wrong.
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Whatever the reasons, it officially ended Wednesday night with closer
Craig Kimbrel blowing a lead in the ninth inning and Hunter Pence coming
through with a two-out, broken-bat single in the 13th that gave the
Philadelphia Phillies a 4-3 victory.
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But the collapse began long before the regular season finale. The Braves
were a dismal 9-18 in September and ended with a five-game losing streak
to finish a game behind the Cardinals.
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We had our chances, center fielder Michael Bourn said. Not just this
game. You can go weeks before.
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The Braves were 10 games ahead of St. Louis before play on Aug. 26. They
were still up by 8 games on the morning of Sept. 6. Instead of popping
champagne for a second straight trip to the playoffs, they became the
first team in major league history to squander a lead of at least eight
games for a playoff spot in September.
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They had company a short time later when Boston did the same in the AL,
but that was of little consolation in Atlanta.
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This is tough, All-Star catcher Brian McCann said. This is one of the
worst feelings Ive ever had coming off a baseball field.
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More than an hour after St. Louis routed Houston 8-0 to claim at least a
share of the wild card, the Cardinals got it outright when Freeman hit
into a season-ending double play.
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Freeman buckled over down the right-field line, burying his head in his
hands. Dan Uggla, who was on base, crawled on his knees near second base.
In the Braves dugout, everyone else just stared at the field in disbelief.
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The Braves had this one. And they blew it.
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I cant fathom it, Freeman said.
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