Atlanta Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr. is fighting a war for influence with the Miami Marlins, right.
Aaron Rodgers owns the Chicago Bears, Dansby Swanson owns the Washington Nationals, and Ronald Acuna Jr. owns the Miami Marlins.
Although Captain Donnie Baseball and the Fish do their best to mess with baseball’s Ronnie at Reg, it’s the same playing surface at Depot Park that has hurt the Atlanta Braves star the most. Since he hit his knee on the caution track in Miami a little over a year ago, Acuña and Braves have been very careful when it comes to playing on fake turf.
After taking the fish deep into the first court in Game 2 of a double-header on Saturday, Acuña was later disqualified from the game on precautionary grounds due to his knee.
The Braves captain, Brian Sneeker, said Acuña won’t continue in the IL game and not all have to worry about his star player’s knee after playing two games on Saturday. More than nine rides a day on the lawn will do it for you…
After Sunday’s series finale against Miami, Atlanta returns home to take on the hated New York Mets.
Ronald Acuna Jr. won’t lose the war of influence against those centrists in the Miami Marlins
After cleaning their watches by the Mets in Queens last week, Atlanta won five straight victories over teams that didn’t play in the playoff at the Boston Red Sox and now Miami. Although Atlanta can totally and unequivocally condone a fish on the day of the escape, today would be a good day for the Day of the Braves to pretend to be the Braves of the Night and finally be the heroes of the Day of the Sun.
For the first time all season, Acuña plays… well… like Acuña. He seems to have a renewed sense of confidence in the painting. While he doesn’t always look pretty on the right field, he does more plays with his legs, and certainly with his right rocket arm. Honestly, he might still have another year to go back to the top 10 in baseball, but he’s heading for the better.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter if Acuña plays on Sunday. It may act as a DH to give his legs more rest. The catch though is that he needs to be prepared to rock when the frontrunners come into town. They would be relentlessly booed as Truist Park rages. Tie the fishing line and trough and let’s take care of business on Monday.
Miami’s decision to go to turf a few years ago was another bad move the franchise made.
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