Braves Dominate Twins 10-6, Merrifield Shines with 5 Hits

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00:00Bailey Ober got the start yesterday in the Twin Cities for Minnesota against the Atlanta Braves.

00:09Had been pretty darn solid this year. A 3-5-4 ERA entering. Had not allowed more than three earned

00:14runs since early June. He got shelled yesterday by the Braves early and often. Nine earned,

00:23given up over two innings of work. Matt Olsen a big day. He had five RBIs including a three-run blast

00:30in the very top of the first inning for Atlanta. The Braves have 13 hits. They score 10 runs.

00:36A total of seven and a half skies over as the Braves win outright as the dog in Minneapolis.

00:4210-6 over the Twins. I'll tell you what's funny about this too. You look at that lineup for the

00:47Braves and the Phillies had Witt Merrifield who signed as a free agent for them to come

00:51off the bench and be that super utility guy and I was happy with that. One of the guys used to be

00:54a league leader with base hits. We know he's not that same player that he was in a Kansas City

00:58uniform but you still figured he would be a very good scenario for giving like you know a couple

01:03guys off. He can play multiple positions here but it looked like for the Phillies, Ben, he was

01:07absolutely playing in slow motion. Swing was slow. Play was slow. Fielding was off and they just

01:12released him and said you know what we're not even gonna give you a second chance because it looks

01:15like you hit the wall and then you find out games like this where Witt Merrifield goes five of five

01:20in the leadoff spot. There's just something about the Atlanta Braves. You plug just randos into that

01:24lineup and they're absolutely really good ballplayers out of nowhere because I remember

01:28when Witt Merrifield went to Atlanta like dude they're gonna laugh at this guy like he is absolutely

01:33shot and to see him go five for five in a game where the Braves opened up a nine to one lead

01:37after two innings against a very good pitcher this year Major League Baseball on the road. The Braves

01:42scored 10 runs yesterday. That's something to keep an eye on here but I look at the performance

01:46out of Witt Merrifield and just scratch my head saying this is unbelievable. Never would have saw that coming.