News about Kyle Wright

Kyle Wright pitched six scoreless innings as the Atlanta Braves beat the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 on Wednesday, ending their National League Division Series at a game apiece. Wright (1-0), who went 21-5 in the regular season, allowed two hits and one walk, while striking out six runs. He threw 83 pitches, 52 of them for strikes. It was his eighth scoreless start of the year. A three-hitter was blocked from the Braves' bullpen. A.J Minter pitched a perfect seventh, Raisel Iglesias scored in the eighth, and Kenley Jansen retired the team in order to earn a save in the ninth.

The bracket has been drafted and the new expanded MLB playoffs are set for their first appearance, with 12 teams competing to win the Commissioner's Trophy in what might be the best postseason in baseball history. The reformed playoffs did not only reward the top two teams in each league with first-round byes, but also the Houston Astros and New York Yankees, which all happened to be popular with fans at the end of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The World Series picture, as well as an 111-win team, the Dodgers, and three other 100-win clubs: the Astros, Braves, and the New York Mets. So even if an underdog makes it to the Divisional round, several of the best regular-season clubs in recent memory will all be around to compete for the pennant.

On Wednesday, Pittsburgh Pirates rookie Oneil Cruz went for a ball 122.4 miles against the Braves to record an exit-velocity record for the Statcast era, which began in baseball in 2015. Giancarlo Stanton, the New York Yankees' slugger, set the previous four records, all between 122.2 miles and 121.3 mph. Stanton has hit 16 of the top 21 exist velocities. Cruz broke a first-pitch slider off the right-field wall in the third inning off Braves pitcher Kyle Wright's third inning. Unfortunately, he may have struck the ball too hard, and right fielder Ronald Acucub of Atlanta quickly collected the ricochet and relayed the throw to the infield to prevent Cruz from qualifying second.