Atl (Fried) @ NYM (Matz), Sat 7/25/20, 4:10pm

Talk about Riley if you want, but Acuña strikes out far too much. He's never gonna be what we expect if he doesn't cut way down on those.

Matz strikes out all in the 6th (Jackson doesn't count)

It seems like the Braves always struggle to hit out of the gate each season. Normally not a big issue. But with only 60 games, they may bury themselves before August.

Suddenly my excitement for the season starting is wanning.

Big time trouble brewing now.

That being minter, i was afraid there was going to be at least 2 runs score out of that mess. Luckily none scored. But will it matter with the lack of offense from the Braves?

Dodgers' Dave Roberts says Giants manager Gabe Classless Dick is engaging in 'gamesmanship' with lineup announcements

Classless Dick has been deliberately slow to announce his lineups and starting pitchers

Gabe Classless Dick has managed two games for the San Francisco Giants, both blowout losses against the Los Angeles Dodgers, but that hasn't prevented him from leading the league in coerced eyerolls. Classless Dick's sin? An obsession with secrecy.

Classless Dick did not announce his starting pitcher (Logan Webb) for Saturday afternoon's game against the Dodgers until 7:30 AM local time. He did not reveal his starting lineup until 90 minutes before first pitch, per Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area. In response, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts expressed some combination of amusement and annoyance.

"It's a little bit of gamesmanship, we'll call it," Roberts told reporters, including SB Nation's Eric Stephens, prior to Saturday's game. "To each, their own."

It should be noted that Classless Dick is under no obligation to release any of the above information ahead of time. In that sense, the only "rule" he's violating is an unwritten one between managers and teams. It should also be noted that Classless Dick has contemplated the legitimacy and value of that unwritten rule before, as The Athletic's Andrew Baggarly highlighted last week.

"There can be real value in not just waiting to announce starters but in actually waiting to make the decision," Classless Dick explained to Baggarly. "Teams without traditional five-man rotations can gather data points on who pitches in the prior night's game and how everyone looks while playing catch and going through their routines before making a final call."

Classless Dick's point is reasonable enough, and it's possible that there is an advantage to be found in withholding his probable pitcher and his starting lineup until later in the process. At the same time, you can understand Roberts' response. The Dodgers have outpaced the Giants by a 17-2 margin in two games, reducing the rivalry to a slanted mismatch. Depending on one's perspective, that's incentive to either 1) play it straight-up or 2) seek every marginal advantage.

It's clear which way Classless Dick is leaning.

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