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- Updated: August 14, 2016
WASHINGTON — Given the state of their depleted starting rotation, the Braves probably should feel fortunate to have split a 10-game road trip that included stops in St. Louis, Milwaukee and Washington. But as they exited Sunday’s 9-1 loss to the Nationals and prepared to fly back to Atlanta, they certainly weren’t feeling as enthusiastic as they had at the start of this weekend.
“It would have been nice to win this, take the series and have a winning road trip,” Braves interim manager Brian Snitker said. “But overall, [the trip] could have been better.”
When the Braves won four of this trip’s first five games, they were in the midst of a seven-game stretch within which their makeshift rotation (Mike Foltynewicz, Tyrell Jenkins, Rob Whalen, Joel De La Cruz and Roberto Hernandez) combined to compile a 3.20 ERA.
There certainly wasn’t reason to believe this success was sustainable, but at the same time, the Braves would have …
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