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I am your host, Brad Rowland, deep into the night here on this fine Thursday.

It's not so fine, I suppose, and the fact that the Braves just got, you know, not decimated, but beaten pretty soundly.

And here to Chronicle at all with me is the great Scott Coleman.

What's up, man?

About as bad as a playoff game can go other than a heartbreaker in the ninth inning.

Yeah, I mean, we were talking before we started recording a little bit.

It's a situation where this is preferable to blowing a game.

I think, you know, having a game where the Braves didn't feel like they were really in it.

I mean, there were moments where there was brief optimism, but, you know, no back and forth.

Dodgers had the lead in the first inning and led the entire game.

You know, it wasn't fun, to be sure.

I guess there are worse outcomes and kind of what you said there, like maybe just collapsing later, something like that.

But it wasn't a whole lot of fun.

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