Tophatal told me this could be a bad weekend for my Braves.  And once again, he was right.  I don't always agree with what Sir Toppem Hat says.  But you best not dismiss anything he says too lightly.

From mlb.com:

Consecutive losses to open this weekend's three-game series against the Mets haven't killed the Braves postseason hopes. But they might have put them on a life support system.

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"Six hits in two games just isn't going to get it," said frustrated Braves manager Bobby Cox in reference to the fact that his team has registered six hits -- just two singles on Saturday -- and has struck out 22 times in 56 at-bats during this series.

"Now our backs are against the wall pretty big," said Jeff Francoeur, who accounted for one of the two hits the Braves collected on Saturday. "Now instead of taking two out of three [in future series], you've got to talk about sweeping series. By no means have we given up. But we realize we have a tall task ahead to get back in it."

"We swung at a lot of bad pitches today," said Brian McCann, who, like Chipper Jones and Mark Teixeira, suffered through a two-strikeout performance.

"It's not a good time for our offense not to show up," said Teixeira, who contributed the Braves' only other hit of the afternoon. "But at the same time, their pitchers did a good job the past two days."

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"I don't think we can talk about the Wild Card, just given the dynamics of it," said John Smoltz, a seasoned postseason race expert. "There's too many teams. Somebody is always going to win. ... We don't play any of those teams. There's no ability for us to affect that race."

"Pretty much every game against everybody from here on out is huge for us," Tim Hudson said. "Our backs are against the wall. We need to start playing better baseball. We need to start pitching better. We need to start doing everything better. We've got to go out there and start playing with a little more passion."

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