The Braves have fundamentally been toast since about early July, when they went 2-7 against the Angels, Orioles, and Athletics. As has been the case for much of the year, the toasting wasn’t really a case of the team’s production, but its complete and utter inability to turn that production into wins that appear next to “ATL” in a standings column. Things didn’t really improve after that point — they were 40-52 after their series in Sacramento, and were 58-69 coming into this weekend’s series against the Mets. Based on a recent stretch of actually getting said wins in the standings, there was the glimmer of hope that a miracle was in the cards… but after getting shellacked by the Mets twice, we can more or less write that off now. (In all honesty, they were written off well before August s

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