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Sunday, July 22, 2007
On a perfectly pleasant night, in front of a regular season-record 53,953 fans turning Turner Field claustrophobic, the Braves and Willie Harris played up to the atmosphere Saturday night.
How else to explain the outpouring of offense in a 14-6 pounding of the Cardinals, featuring Harris going 6-for-6?
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The scrappy Harris reached the top with six of the Braves’ 19 hits. The kid from Cairo singled four times, tripled twice, scored four runs and drove in six runs. He became the seventh player in franchise history to reach six hits in a game, the second to do it since the team moved to Atlanta. The other was Felix Millan in 1970.
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Harris scored or drove in nine of the Braves’ first 11 runs. He capped off his night with a great diving catch in center field in the ninth inning.
“You have bad games, you come back the next day and try to fix it,” said Harris, now hitting .339. “I had no idea I could fix it like that today. I have no words to describe it.”
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Posted: July 22, 2007 at 05:24 AM | 18 comment(s)
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1. Biff isn't really an apt handle anymore Posted: July 22, 2007 at 06:14 AM (#2450347)(Oh, and a black player is being called scrappy? Unpossible!)
And some trivia -- Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, GA, which is actually pronounced kay-ro, unlike the Egyptian city.
On nights when Wainwright's not starting Cardinals pitching sucks?
Cairo, Illinois pronounces it the same way. There's a Thames River in New London, Connecticut which is pronounced thaymes instead of temms.
Three promotions --
Rally flag night.
Foundation weekend -- sale of autographed baseball memorabilia.
NASCAR night.
I'm picturing Sean Smith waving a Confederate battle flag.
Who spends $40 to go to a Saturday night baseball game just to get a little flag?
The Braves have always scouted Georgia very heavily, so this is no surprise.
-- MWE
No one. The crowd was due to the normal Braves fan attendance (27-30K) plus the obligatory Cards fan attendance (usually another 10K in a normal year, but with the whole WS title and all notably bigger this year.)
You must keep in mind that prior to 1966 Atlanta was a Cardinal town, just like every other southern baseball town.
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