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1999 Atlanta Braves season

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Record
  
103–59 (.636)

Owner(s)
  
Time Warner

Manager(s)
  
Divisional place
  
1st

General manager(s)
  
Local television
  
WTBSWUPATBS Superstation(Pete Van Wieren, Skip Caray, Don Sutton, Joe Simpson)Fox Sports South(Ernie Johnson, Bob Rathbun)

The 1999 Atlanta Braves season marked the franchise's 34th season in Atlanta. The Braves won their eighth consecutive division title with a 103-59 record and 6 game lead over the New York Mets. The Braves appeared in the World Series for the fifth time during the 1990s. The Braves lost all four games of the 1999 World Series to the New York, resulting in a dominant sweep. The Braves suffered their 2nd World Series elimination to the Yankees in 4 years. The first being in 1996 in six games.

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Two key players on the 1999 Braves were Chipper Jones & John Rocker. Jones won the National League's Most Valuable Player award with a .310 average, 45 HRs, 110 RBIs, and sealed the award with his September heroics against the New York Mets. Rocker recorded 38 saves as Atlanta's closer, but later created controversy due to his racist and homophobic comments in a December 27, 1999, Sports Illustrated article.

Offseason

  • November 10, 1998: Bret Boone was traded by the Cincinnati Reds with Mike Remlinger to the Atlanta Braves for Rob Bell, Denny Neagle, and Michael Tucker.
  • December 1, 1998: Otis Nixon was signed as a Free Agent with the Atlanta Braves.
  • December 1, 1998: Curtis Pride was released by the Atlanta Braves.
  • Opening Day starters

  • Otis Nixon – LF
  • Bret Boone – 2B
  • Chipper Jones – 3B
  • Brian Jordan – RF
  • Javy Lopez – C
  • Ryan Klesko – 1B
  • Andruw Jones – CF
  • Walt Weiss – SS
  • Tom Glavine – P
  • Transactions

  • July 3, 1999: Pete Orr was signed by the Atlanta Braves as an amateur free agent.
  • Starters by position

    Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

    Other batters

    Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

    Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros

    Atlanta wins series, 3-1

    Game 1

    October 12: Turner Field, Atlanta

    The Braves began their eighth consecutive NLCS with a 4-2 victory over the Mets, defeating a team they left for dead two weeks earlier. Greg Maddux tossed seven solid innings, and future NLCS MVP Eddie Pérez who came up big for the absence of Javy Lopez, homered. Light-hitting shortstop Walt Weiss went 3-for-4 with a run scored and RBI for the Braves.

    John Rocker recorded the final four outs for the save, his second of the postseason, to seal Atlanta's fourth straight win.

    Game 2

    October 13: Turner Field, Atlanta

    Game 3

    October 15: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

    Game 4

    October 16: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

    Game 5

    October 17: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

    Game 6

    October 19: Turner Field, Atlanta

    Game 1

    October 23, 1999, at Turner Field in Atlanta.

    Game 2

    October 24, 1999, at Turner Field in Atlanta

    Game 3

    October 26, 1999, at Yankee Stadium in New York

    Game 4

    October 27, 1999, at Yankee Stadium in New York

    Award winners

  • Andruw Jones, OF, Gold Glove for center field
  • Chipper Jones, National League Most Valuable Player Award
  • Chipper Jones, 3B, Silver Slugger Award
  • Greg Maddux, P, Gold Glove Award
  • John Smoltz, Pitcher of the Month Award, April
  • 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

  • Brian Jordan, OF, Reserve
  • Kevin Millwood, Pitcher, Reserve
  • Farm system

    LEAGUE CO-CHAMPIONS: Myrtle Beach

    References

    1999 Atlanta Braves season Wikipedia


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