There’s a point when a curveball isn’t a curveball anymore.

Braves reliever Pierce Johnson found that point in a 1-1 count to Matt Chapman with 2-outs and a runner on in the bottom of the 9th. Johnson threw 15 pitches today and 12 of them were curveballs. Last night, he threw 15 pitches and 14 of them were Charlies. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. One and one equals two. I think, therefore I am...100-percent sure Johnson will throw a buttload of curveballs.

Any reasonable human being would sit on the right-hander’s signature pitch, and Chapman, as a reasonable human being, stepped into the box on Saturday and looked for nothing but the breaking ball.

He got three of them. The first one was outside. The other one too far in, maybe a little low. The third was

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