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2020 YEAR-END NOTES
• The Braves had a major league-most 10 games scoring double-digit runs…No other team had
more than eight…The Braves averaged a double-digit scoring output once every six games, FRONT OFFICE
which would equate to 27 double-digit efforts over a full 162-game season...The Braves record
for such games in a full season is 26 games with at least 10 runs, set by the 2003 club.
• Atlanta scored four or more runs in 41 games, and went 31-10 (.756) in those games…The
Braves’ 41 games scoring at least four times was tied for the fourth most such games in the majors
with the Padres…Only the Dodgers (46), Giants (42) and Angels (42) had more of these games.
• Conversely, the Braves were 4-15 (.211) when scoring three or fewer runs…They were shut MANAGER & STAFF
out just three times.
• The Braves scored 128 runs with two outs, the fourth-most two-out runs in the majors, trailing
the Padres (137), the Dodgers (136) and the White Sox (133)… The Braves scored 294 of these
runs last season, tied for the 14th most in baseball.
• Atlanta hit .270 with runners in scoring position, the ninth highest in baseball…However, with
a runner on third and less than two outs, the Braves struck out a major league-most 37 times… PLAYER BIOS
The average major league team struck out 24.3 times in these situations this season.

29 RUNS: The Braves set a modern-era National League record for runs scored in a 29-9 win
over Miami on September 9...The Braves fell one run shy of the overall modern-era record, set
by Texas in a 30-3 win at Baltimore on August 22, 2007.
• The Braves became the fourth team in the modern era to score at least 29 runs in a game, and
just the second to do so at home...The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 29-4 on SEASON IN REVIEW
June 8, 1950 at Fenway Park...The only other team to score 29 runs in a game was the 1955
Chicago White Sox, who beat Kansas City, 29-6, on April 23, 1955...The White Sox were then
shut out in the next two games.
• The Braves overall franchise record for runs scored in a game is 30, set on June 9, 1883, as
the Boston Beaneaters in a 30-8 win over the Detroit Wolverines...That Beaneaters club then
scored 29 runs in a 29-4 win over the Philadelphia Quakers later that season on June 20...Both
of those wins came at home. PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
• The last home team to score more than 29 runs in a game was the Chicago Colts, who beat
the Louisville Colonels, 36-7, on June 29, 1897 at the West Side Grounds.
• The Braves were shut out the day prior to their record-setting night...Before their 29-run
outburst, the most runs a team had scored in the next game following a shutout was 26 by the
New York Giants on April 30, 1944 in the first game of a doubleheader vs. Brooklyn...Thanks
to Elias for the research. BRAVES HISTORY
• The Braves hit seven home runs in the game, including three from Adam Duvall, the most by
the club since hitting a franchise record-tying eight on May 28, 2006 at Wrigley Field against
the Cubs and the most the club has ever hit in a home game.
HOME RUNS: The Braves hit 103 home runs, 15 off the major league lead of the Dodgers
(118)…Those were the only two teams to hit triple-figure home runs this season…This is easily
the most home runs any modern-era Braves team has hit in the first 60 games of a season…The OPPONENTS
2003 club held the previous record, hitting 94.
• Extrapolated over a 162-game season, the Braves total would pace to 278 home runs…The
franchise record was set by last year’s club, who hit 249.
• Atlanta hit more home runs this year than over 40 clubs in the franchise’s modern era…For
reference, the 2015 clubs hit three fewer (100) in 102 more games. MISCELLANEOUS

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