The umpires found the Branch parents to give them the official lineup cards with their boys, Kolby (UGA) and Kyle (Oklahoma), on them.
They are the first brothers to be starters/opponents in a MCWS game, and this was the final time the two faced off in college. 🥹
If someone asked you today why you live differently — what would you say?
There's a reason you don't fall apart the way everyone else does.
A reason you can show up with peace in the middle of chaos.
Forgiveness when you've been wronged.
Hope when the situation says there's nothing to hope for.
That's not personality. That's not positivity. That's Jesus.
And the people in your life — at work, home, in your everyday, they're noticing something they can't quite explain.
One day they're going to ask you about it.
Be ready to tell them why.
6-3 road trip was a doozy
- 14HR, 51R
- Sale finished an outing punching out 7 of 9.
- Matt Olson career HR #300
- Strider goes off
- 2 OFers plant their faces in the wall to save runs
- Jim Jarvis MLB debut
- Didier Fuentes first MLB win
- First series win @ LAD since 2023
- Acquired 1 rally hamster
- First TV booth foul ball for BG
- Wiley wore the hammer costume
- Comeback from down 6 to win
- Squirrel on the field in COL
- Ronald to the IL, Heim traded
- Iggy and Murph activated
- Watched Byrdie call for single tight shot. Tighter!
- Offered "Limp Brisket" to the public
- Lost first series of the year
- Wore 1800's hats
- Worked with Bagger Vance & PT Barnum
- Met Pauly Shore
- Sterling, Ted and Bobby 🙏🏻
Haven’t posted on social in quite some time but can’t stay quiet in this time of loss. I’m struggling to tell all what Bobby Cox meant to me and so many others in Braves Country.
He was the leader of men and a second father to so many Atlanta Braves thru the yrs. I’m so sad today, but as I sit here watching my two youngest boys play in their championship games on the day he passed, I can’t help but shout the same things he did from the corner of the dugout. ‘Come on kid, u got this!’
We are gonna miss him so much, but his legacy is forever cemented with the success of this franchise for the last 35+ yrs. He started it as GM, continued as manager, and passing the torch to others, the Atlanta Braves will continue to be force that Bobby Cox always wanted us to be. We love you Skipper. You were our rock. I love you more than words can express.
My boys won both of their games…..Bobby had a hand, I have no doubt!
Two brothers on the same team in their hometown is an iconic story for this family.
Getting to play together on the biggest stage is what dream are made of!!#NFLDRAFT@AtlantaFalcons
An MLB player tosses a ball to a kid wearing his jersey.
The kid makes the catch… then hands it to his little sister and gives her a hug. How can you not love baseball
Life has a way of breaking your heart… and then, somehow, letting it beat even stronger in the very next moment.
I’m a lifelong Georgian. The Atlanta Braves have always been my hometown team. And this weekend gave us one of those moments you don’t just watch… you feel.
Dominic Smith, new to Atlanta, steps into his Braves debut and launches a walk-off grand slam!
History.
First player in MLB history to do it in a team debut.
The stadium erupted.
His teammates rushed him.
It looked like pure joy.
But underneath it… was something much heavier.
Just two weeks ago on March 15, he lost his mom, Yvette LaFleur, to cancer.
Two weeks.
And in the middle of that moment, with the entire city celebrating him, he said he “got choked up a bunch of times” thinking about her.
Because that swing wasn’t just about baseball.
It was about the one person who helped get him there… not being there.
And then you learn her story, and it hits even deeper.
She didn’t have an easy life. She battled addiction. Lost custody of her two children. Reached a point where everything felt like it was falling apart.
In her mid 30s, pregnant again and trying to rebuild her life in LA, she didn’t think she could go through with it.
“I was pretty sure I was going to terminate my pregnancy… I just wanted my other two kids back.”
Let that sit for a second.
She was at her lowest.
Trying to fix what was already broken.
Not sure she had anything left to give.
But she chose differently.
She chose to keep going.
She chose to fight.
She chose life.
And that child was Dominic.
And that decision… that one fragile, uncertain moment… led to a man standing under the lights in Atlanta, rounding the bases after a walk-off grand slam… carrying her with him every step of the way.
That’s bigger than baseball.
That’s love.
That’s redemption.
That’s what second chances can become.
Somewhere along the way, she turned her life around. She became the mother who showed up, who supported him, who believed in him from the very beginning.
And in that moment… you could feel it.
Every swing. Every step. Every emotion.
It was all for her.
Welcome to Atlanta, Dominic!
We’re proud to have you. And there’s no doubt… your mom was right there with you. @TheRealSmith2_