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ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves have built a 7 1/2-game lead in the National League East thanks to 42-21 record within the division and a 45-30 overall road record — the best in the league.Now the Braves (82-64) can wrap up the division title by turning SunTrust Park into a real home-field advantage during their final homestand beginning Friday night. Atlanta Anthony Rizzo Jersey , just 37-34 in its home ballpark, welcomes Washington and St. Louis for three games each, then Philadelphia for four games before playing the final week of the regular season on the road against the New York Mets and Phillies.Article continues below ...Just a few weeks ago, it looked like the NL East race might go right to the wire. But the Phillies (74-71) fell on hard times and the Nationals (74-73) didn’t get things turned around quite fast enough.“We’ve worked hard to get to this point,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said Wednesday after his team completed a 6-1 road trip by allowing just three total runs in a three-game sweep at San Francisco. “We’ve grinded through things to get to this position. We can look to bigger things now.”The Braves’ magic number for clinching the division title with 16 games to go is 10 versus the second-place Phillies and eight versus Washington, which fell 8 1/2 games behind with a 4-3 loss in 10 innings to the Chicago Cubs on Thursday in a makeup game at home. The Braves are 5-2 at home and 9-7 overall against the Nationals, who will pitch defending two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer in the series opener. He is 17-6 with a 2.31 ERA and leads the major leagues with 271 strikeouts.Fellow right-hander Kevin Gausman will get the start for Atlanta, which lost at least 90 games each of the past three seasons before turning things around this season. He is 9-10 with a 3.89 ERA overall but 4-2 with a 2.32 ERA since being acquired by the Braves at the end of July. Scherzer is coming into his fifth start of the season against Atlanta off his second complete game of the season. Gausman will face the Nationals for the first time with the Braves after his shortest outing for his new team.Gausman lasted just 4 2/3 innings and allowed four runs in a loss at Arizona a day before Scherzer struck out 11 in nine innings in a home victory over the Chicago Cubs.“I had plenty in the tank,” Scherzer said after reaching double-figure strikeouts for the 16th time this season.Scherzer is 2-1 with a 1.67 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 27 innings against Atlanta this season, improving to 9-6 with a 3.45 ERA in 21 career games versus the Braves.Gausman is 3-1 with a 4.34 ERA in five career outings against Washington, all while with Baltimore. He allowed four hits and two runs in six innings of a no-decision against the Nationals for the Orioles in June.Braves third baseman Johan Camargo is nursing a slight groin strain, but fill-in Charlie Culberson has flourished against the Nationals this season, batting .350 (14-for-40) with five homers and eight RBIs. Culberson has four hits, including a homer, in 10 at-bats against Scherzer. Most of the news stepped aside so that we can all discuss HoF voting."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Angels PregameAngels PostgameGamethreadsHalos Heaven PodcastsShohei OhtaniMinor LeaguesInterviewsHALOLINKSHumpLinks: Holy Hall! Fame is Fleeting.New,85commentsMost of the news stepped aside so that we can all discuss HoF voting.PSTShareTweetShareShareHumpLinks: Holy Hall! Fame is Fleeting.Boom! The Curse is over, and now we can all go forward rationally. Mariano Rivera was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday with 100% of the votes submitted. Whew! I suppose it was inevitable, since the old guard is retiring, dying off, getting religion http://www.chicagocubsteamshop.com/authentic-david-ross-jersey , etc. But it feels good, nonetheless. Now we can stop talking about THAT. And, even more fun, it came on behalf of a relief pitcher. Relief pitchers are still subject to more than a little doubt as to even being a legit player category.Three other players were elected along with ex-Yankee Rivera. Ex-Yankee Mike Mussina, Ex-Toronto Blue Jay Yankee Killer Roy Halladay, and ex-Mariner who never really struggled with Yankee pitching or Yankee Stadium (and my favorite selection) Edgar Martinez. Congratulations to all of them, and a posthumous congratulation to Halladay and his family.Barry Bonds was at 59.1% and Roger Clemens at 59.5%, which are slightly up from 2018. The clock ticks but they are overshadowing the remaining candidates by a ever widening margin. The full percentage list is here.....Vernon Wells, to save you the click, got zero votes.But, really, Placido Polanco?Onward we go with Now-Trout-Can-Be-Unanimous-HaloLinks:A Little Bit Of Angels NewsParker Bridwell, MLB’s 2018-2019 most traveled ping pong, has been claimed off the Billy Eppler waiver wire by the Oakland A’s. This might be his final resting spot, where we get to see him against us a dozen times this year...........Tyler Skaggs is tired of having frequent flyer points riding the injury bus, and is working with a new training partner and regimen. The good news is that he is being active in this effort, well into a year now. The bad news is that this is NOT a pro-active effort, since the injury plague is all too familiar to him already. And the worst news is that the LAA training and medical staffs have not had such motion and range coaching in place all along as a baseline..........Everywhere In BaseballJust to remind you how pro athletes are normal folk at their core, just like you and me, Yadier Molina needs a silly joke from Kris Bryant to motivate him this year...until he finds a better motivator. Not only will he not let go of the Bryant off-the-cuff joke about St. Louis being boring Andre Dawson Jersey , but now he is promising to take it onto the field of play against the Cubs. Like, what, call for his pitcher to throw inside to Bryant in a game??...........I struggle to even give linkage to this, because I can’t be seen as giving any credence to the notion that Aaron Judge is the best RF in MLB at the same time that MLB has a Mookie Betts, the same Betts that is given serious cred for being as good, if not better, than Mike Trout. But that is what MLB Network did earlier this week, claiming that Judge was MLB’s #1 RF. Brian Kenny could not bring reason to the conversation. But MLB Network, as a media empire, did its job. It has stirred the pot, creating lots of opportunity for content between the media base and fan base of both New York and Boston...........In a sport loaded with millions of rules to control the game, at a time when the fan and media culture insist on the importance of accuracy and detail to the extent that every event is clean and correctly measured, why does Wrigley Field still have it’s outfield walls covered with vegetation?..........Are MLB teams still shedding scouts? Or, rather, are they upgrading/modernizing their scouting personnel?...........I am not very convinced that the Padres really really showed their financial position here. Some good info, but lots of spin and lots of blanks that are not going to be filled in..........And, in the spirit of baseball financial theory, what would it take for a Jeff Bezos to buy up all of MLB?..........Hot StoveMeh, here we are still in the rumor stages of the Manny Machado and Bryce Harper off-season sagas. Raise your hands, how many are with me that the Arte Moreno approach of giving an agent/player a deadline to decide whether or not to take a deal on the table is the way to go? Teams are run like businesses Ron Santo Jersey , yeah, and one of the benefits of organizing that way is that business processes enabling planning and forecasting. waiting for landing the whale, and aggressively pursue the school of tuna that would be all the other FA’s still on the market. And, going forward, players and agents are put on notice that I am open to paying out large contracts, but I won’t be dragged by the nose all the way out to Februarys...........The Cardinals are going to make a run at signing Paul Goldschmidt long-term. This would be bad, because it takes another guy off the annual winter FA map and gives everybody a reason to whine............The Rangers may have found their replacement for retiring Adrian Beltre. They signed infielder Asdrubal Cabrera to a 1-year, $3.5 million deal. His career splits don’t show him to be a major problem for the Halos..........FanGraphs gifts us this lovely smackdown of the Rangers in the title of their review..........The Rangers also signed Zach McAllister. 1-year, $1 million. Not bad for a bullpen guy getting dumped and/or pigeon-holed by three separate teams last season.........And Nick Markakis is staying in Atlanta, signing a deal with the Braves for $4 million. You are probably going to be surprised to read this, but the term is for 1 year..........The Dodgers are still trying to uncork JT Realmuto out of Florida, now that they need a front-line catcher..........Which speaks to the weirdness. Why are the Dodgers so silent, especially after going backwards with the on-field talent that got them to the WS the past 2 seasons? You would think that they would have felt really close going into the off-season, maybe one guy away from putting them over the top...........The Duffle BagThe best use of bobbleheads I have tripped across in a while. Vin Scully into the stratosphere............Gleyber Torres nearly makes the Stupid Spring Non-Baseall Injury List of 2019..........Milwaukee losing some flavor, as their baseball stadium won’t be named after beer any longer. Starting in 2021 Miller Park will become American Family Insurance (something)..........Only slightly OT, but a medical marijuana advocacy commercial will NOT be making it into the Super Bowl commercial showcase..........Why does Mike Francesca have a job in the world of sports????