There’s an all-too familiar refrain happening again this October:
“The Braves win their division. The Braves exit from the postseason way too soon.”
Since 2000, the Atlanta Braves have lost in the postseason in the Wild Card or Divisional series a whopping 12 times. Outside of their World Series winning 2021 season, their only other two post-seasons ended in the NLCS (2001, 2020).
That’s a lot of premature post-season exits in the last couple of decades.
Long-time Atlanta journalist Jeff Hullinger posted on Twitter/X on October 11, 2023, “For Braves fans, it’s mostly, 32 years of ‘Beware the Ides of October.