The Braves have somehow won ten in a row. They weren’t all gimmes, either, as they helped do massive damage to the Tigers’ season in the process.

How are they doing it? Well, it’s a mix of good baseball and stuff that just happens to be working out in their favor. The “good baseball” part involves the highest xwOBA in baseball since the streak began, at .388. But they also have the fourth-biggest xwOBA overperformance in that span. That’s helped the team escape a bottom-ten xwOBA underperformance for the whole season. Too little, too late, but it is what it is. Pitching-wise, during the streak, the Braves have the league’s second-lowest ERA- and FIP-, and the fourth-lowest xFIP-. In numerical terms: 64/74/82. On the season, those ranks are 19th, 23rd, and 12th. In this span, they have the

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