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Now, while it may be a one word with three letters, it's simply the best way to describe yesterday's action when it came to the American League side of the playoff bracket in the MLB playoffs.

Welcome to The Daily Hammer, your daily source of the Atlanta Braves from Talking Chop. My name's Sean Coleman. You can find me at Stats, SAC on Twitter. You can find the Daily Hammer,

the Talking Chop podcast, and the Road to Atlanta podcast, as well as all the reactionary podcasts from

each and every playoff game plus preview podcasts such as this at talking chop.com

and at talking chop across all forms of social media.

When it comes to the Braves, here's the latest from Atlanta.

Yesterday was an absolutely crazy but wonderful day when it came to the American League

playoffs.

A walk-off home run from Christian Vasquez allowed the Red Sox to take a two-to-one lead

over the race, surprisingly, in one part of the AL playoff bracket.

While the White Sox were able to stave off elimination and stay alive against the Astros,

as they got their first win, making it

2 to 1 Astros, win in the Astros White Sox side of things in the AL playoffs. So now the focus

shifts to another day of four games of playoff action, and it begins with the Braves returning

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