Braves Briefing: Ronald Acuña Jr. and Ozzie Albies are incredible

Ozzie Albies and Ronald Acuña Jr. continue to make this season special.

Albies has had three walk-offs this season to help Atlanta get to their current record of 102-56. Acuña scored the winning run in last night's dramatic win over the Chicago Cubs after becoming the first player ever to hit 40 home runs and to steal 70 bases.

What an incredible ending to a ball game. Check it out here:

Bottom of the 10th, tie ballgame...

Take it away @ozzie!#ForTheA pic.twitter.com/FfzLnIbD0K
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) September 28, 2023

NL Wildcard Standings

The Atlanta Braves have won the NL East, secured a first-round bye, and earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs but we're closely watching the Wild Card race as Atlanta will play the winner of the Wild Card series pitting the top two wild card finishers in the Divisional Round.

Team	Record	Wildcard Games Back	Action Today
Philadelphia	89-69	+7.0	Hosts Pittsburgh
Arizona	84-74	+2.0	@ CWS
Chi Cubs	82-76	-	@ Atlanta
Miami	82-76	-	@ NYM
Cincinnati	81-78	-1.5	Off

We wrote it

Braves Today's Lindsay Crosby led our coverage last night. Among his several takeaways, he highlighted Darius Vines.

The Atlanta Braves have used sixteen different starting pitchers this season, owing to injuries in their rotation (Max Fried, Kyle Wright) and ineffectiveness.
Darius Vines has delivered.
The 25 year-old out of Ventura, CA picked up a quality start tonight in his second career start (fifth appearance), going six innings with three runs (two earned) on six hits, walking two and striking out five.
Both of his earned runs came on solo homers, both in the 3rd inning. Outside of that, Vines did his job, mostly keeping Chicago off the board and giving Atlanta's bats a chance to put up some runs.

Here are all of the takeaways.

What's next for the Atlanta Braves?

They're looking for the series sweep tonight - first pitch in the series finale with the Cubs is set for 7:20 PM ET, with Marcus Stroman on the mound for Chicago; AJ Smith-Shawver will get called up to start for Atlanta. The game broadcast will be available on Bally Sports South.

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