Saturday, May 9, 2026

Copyrighted by Sarah Morris, 2026

On the day baseball lost a legend, Bobby Cox, the Atlanta Braves smacked the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7–2.

Cox defined an era in baseball, 1990-2010. He led the Atlanta Braves to fourteen consecutive National League Eastern Division titles. He was a player-manager while leading three Hall-of-Fame starters, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz. In 1995, he led the Braves to their first world championship.

Because of his fiery personality, Cox leads the major leagues in elections. Freddie Freeman remembered his first major league manager off the field. Freeman, with his wife and his six-month-old son, was eating at a golf clubhouse and ran into Bobby and Pam Cox. Coxes played with Charlie in his stroller and didn’t talk about baseball. Cox treated his players as people.

He has the third-most victories in major league history. In 2014, Cox was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame with Maddux and Glavine.

Blake Snell made his first major league start in 2026. While he felt healthy, he didn’t have good results in three innings, allowing five runs, four earned. Soft contact victimized him. He walked two and had a wild pitch. He struck out five. After the game, he said that the strike zone was smaller than he remembered. He is determined to be better in his next start.

Jack Dreyer, Eduardo Henriquez, and Paul Gervase were sharp in relief, allowing two runs over the last six innings. Their performance preserved the bullpen for Sunday’s game.

Before the ninth inning, the Dodgers had only three hits and no runners in scoring position. Alex Call doubled with one out and scored on Andy Pages’ ninth home run.

To make room on the 26-man roster for Snell, the Dodgers put Brock Stewart, with a bone spur in his foot, on the IL.

On Sunday, with undefeated Justin Wrobleski on the mound, the Dodgers will look to win the series against the Braves.