For the Braves, the 2016 season has been and will continue to be a time to celebrate small victories. And moral victories. Any kind of victory, actually.
Of all the things that have gone wrong for Atlanta this season, catcher A.J. Pierzynski has had a particularly rough time of it behind the plate, having misplayed and/or dropped several seemingly routine pop-ups, throws and pitches in the team's first 41 games. That's why it's hard to blame the 39-year-old Pierzynski for giving a hearty mock celebration Friday night after he caught a routine, game-ending pop-up to close out the Braves' 7-1 win against the Phillies in Philadelphia.
Sometimes it's the little things that make you happy. pic.twitter.com/eFGJH97qEu
— Jason Foster (@ByJasonFoster) May 21, 2016
Take a bow, A.J.
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Also worth celebrating Friday: The Braves, who earlier this season went more than two weeks without hitting a homer and generated countless stories on their long-ball deficiencies, hit at least one for the fifth straight game Friday.
That's progress, Braves fans.
