⭐ Division Winner

1997 Atlanta Braves

101-61 • 0.623 Win% • 1st in NL E

📊 Season Record

101 Wins
61 Losses
0.623 Win %
1st Rank
791 R 581 RA
Diff +210

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⚡ Quick Stats

791 Runs Scored
581 Runs Allowed
+210 Run Diff
3,447K Attendance

📈 vs. 1997 NL Average

Batting Avg .269 3% above the 1997 league average (.262)
OBP .340 3% above the 1997 league average (.329)
SLG .363 5% above the 1997 league average (.346)
Team ERA 3.18 24% better than the 1997 league average (4.20)
Runs Scored 791 6% above the 1997 league average (746 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumTurner Field
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 3,447,608
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Avg per Game 42,563

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Kenny Lofton 0.333 2 Jeff Blauser 0.308 3 Chipper Jones 0.295 4 Javy Lopez 0.295 5 Jeff Cirillo 0.288

Home Runs

1 Jeromy Burnitz 27 2 Ryan Klesko 24 3 Javy Lopez 23 4 Fred McGriff 22 5 Chipper Jones 21

RBI

1 Chipper Jones 111 2 Fred McGriff 97 3 Jeromy Burnitz 85 4 Ryan Klesko 84 5 Jeff Cirillo 82
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Chipper Jones 157 597 100 176 0 0 21 111 76 88 20 0.295
Jeff Cirillo 154 580 74 167 0 0 10 82 60 74 4 0.288
Gerald Williams 155 566 73 143 0 0 10 41 19 90 23 0.253
Fred McGriff 152 564 77 156 0 0 22 97 68 112 5 0.277
Dave Nilsson 156 554 71 154 0 0 20 81 65 88 2 0.278
Jeff Blauser 151 519 90 160 0 0 17 70 70 101 5 0.308
Michael Tucker 138 499 80 141 0 0 14 56 44 116 12 0.283
Jeromy Burnitz 153 494 85 139 0 0 27 85 75 111 20 0.281
Jose Valentin 136 494 58 125 0 0 17 58 39 109 19 0.253
Kenny Lofton 122 493 90 164 0 0 5 48 64 83 27 0.333
Ryan Klesko 143 467 67 122 0 0 24 84 48 130 4 0.261
Mark Loretta 132 418 56 120 0 0 5 47 47 60 5 0.287
Javy Lopez 123 414 52 122 0 0 23 68 40 82 1 0.295
Andruw Jones 153 399 60 92 0 0 18 70 56 107 20 0.231
Mark Lemke 109 351 33 86 0 0 2 26 33 51 2 0.245
Fernando Vina 79 324 37 89 0 0 4 28 12 23 8 0.275
Mike Matheny 123 320 29 78 0 0 4 32 17 68 0 0.244
Matt Mieske 84 253 39 63 0 0 5 21 19 50 1 0.249
Jesse Levis 99 200 19 57 0 0 1 19 24 17 1 0.285
Eddie Perez 73 191 20 41 0 0 6 18 10 35 0 0.215
Tony Graffanino 104 186 33 48 0 0 8 20 26 46 6 0.258
John Jaha 46 162 25 40 0 0 11 26 25 40 1 0.247
Marc Newfield 50 157 14 36 0 0 1 18 14 27 0 0.229
Jack Voigt 72 151 20 37 0 0 8 22 19 36 1 0.245
Keith Lockhart 96 147 25 41 0 0 6 32 14 17 0 0.279
Jeff Huson 84 143 12 29 0 0 0 11 5 15 3 0.203
Julio Franco 42 141 22 34 0 0 4 19 31 41 7 0.241
Todd Dunn 44 118 17 27 0 0 3 9 2 39 3 0.229
Danny Bautista 64 103 14 25 0 0 3 9 5 24 2 0.243
Darrin Jackson 26 81 7 22 0 0 2 15 2 10 2 0.272
Mike Mordecai 61 81 8 14 0 0 0 3 6 16 0 0.173
John Smoltz 36 79 10 18 0 0 0 4 9 22 1 0.228
Denny Neagle 34 72 6 11 0 0 1 7 4 35 0 0.153
Rafael Belliard 72 71 9 15 0 0 1 3 1 17 0 0.211
Brian Banks 28 68 9 14 0 0 1 8 6 17 0 0.206
Greg Maddux 33 67 3 7 0 0 0 4 5 21 1 0.104
Tom Glavine 33 63 6 14 0 0 0 7 7 13 0 0.222
Greg Colbrunn 28 54 3 15 0 0 2 9 2 11 0 0.278
Antone Williamson 24 54 2 11 0 0 0 6 4 8 0 0.204
Eddy Diaz 16 50 4 11 0 0 0 7 1 5 0 0.220
Chuck Carr 26 46 3 6 0 0 0 0 2 11 1 0.130
Kelly Stinnett 30 36 2 9 0 0 0 3 3 9 0 0.250
Tommy Gregg 13 19 1 5 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0.263
Tim Unroe 32 16 3 4 0 0 2 5 2 9 2 0.250
Randall Simon 13 14 2 6 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0.429
Tim Spehr 8 14 2 3 0 0 1 4 0 4 1 0.214
Kevin Millwood 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0.000
Terrell Wade 12 12 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 5 0 0.250
Chris Brock 7 10 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0.100
Greg Myers 9 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0.111
Ed Giovanola 14 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0.250
Paul Byrd 31 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0.143
Jeff D'Amico 23 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Scott Karl 32 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Joel Adamson 30 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Cal Eldred 34 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Bielecki 50 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.000
Jose Mercedes 29 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Mark Wohlers 71 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Mike Cather 35 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brad Clontz 51 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Ben McDonald 21 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Ron Villone 50 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Joe Borowski 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Davis 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alan Embree 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Fetters 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bryce Florie 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Chad Fox 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Greg Hansell 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Pete Harnisch 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Doug Jones 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
John LeRoy 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kerry Ligtenberg 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Sean Maloney 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jamie McAndrew 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Angel Miranda 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mike Misuraca 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Alberto Reyes 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Paul Wagner 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bob Wickman 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Steve Woodard 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Doug Jones 2.02 2 Greg Maddux 2.20 3 Mike Cather 2.39 4 Alan Embree 2.54 5 Bob Wickman 2.73

Wins

1 Denny Neagle 20 2 Greg Maddux 19 3 John Smoltz 15 4 Tom Glavine 14 5 Cal Eldred 13

Strikeouts

1 John Smoltz 241 2 Greg Maddux 177 3 Denny Neagle 172 4 Tom Glavine 152 5 Cal Eldred 122
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
John Smoltz 15 12 3.02 35 35 0 256.0 63 241
Tom Glavine 14 7 2.96 33 33 0 240.0 79 152
Denny Neagle 20 5 2.97 34 34 0 233.1 49 172
Greg Maddux 19 4 2.20 33 33 0 232.2 20 177
Cal Eldred 13 15 4.99 34 34 0 202.0 89 122
Scott Karl 10 13 4.47 32 32 0 193.1 67 119
Jose Mercedes 7 10 3.79 29 23 0 159.0 53 80
Jeff D'Amico 9 7 4.71 23 23 0 135.2 43 94
Ben McDonald 8 7 4.06 21 21 0 133.0 36 110
Bob Wickman 7 6 2.73 74 0 1 95.2 41 78
Doug Jones 6 6 2.02 75 0 36 80.1 9 82
Joel Adamson 5 3 3.54 30 6 0 76.1 19 56
Bryce Florie 4 4 4.32 32 8 0 75.0 42 53
Mike Fetters 1 5 3.45 51 0 6 70.1 33 62
Mark Wohlers 5 7 3.50 71 0 33 69.1 38 92
Mike Bielecki 3 7 4.08 50 0 2 57.1 21 60
Paul Byrd 4 4 5.26 31 4 0 53.0 28 37
Ron Villone 1 0 3.42 50 0 0 52.2 36 40
Kevin Millwood 5 3 4.03 12 8 0 51.1 21 42
Brad Clontz 5 1 3.75 51 0 1 48.0 18 42
Alan Embree 3 1 2.54 66 0 0 46.0 20 45
Terrell Wade 2 3 5.36 12 9 0 42.0 16 35
Mike Cather 2 4 2.39 35 0 0 37.2 19 29
Steve Woodard 3 3 5.15 7 7 0 36.2 6 32
Chris Brock 0 0 5.58 7 6 0 30.2 19 16
Alberto Reyes 1 2 5.46 19 0 1 29.2 9 28
Chad Fox 0 1 3.29 30 0 0 27.1 16 28
Joe Borowski 2 2 3.75 20 0 0 24.0 16 6
Jamie McAndrew 1 1 8.38 5 4 0 19.1 23 8
Mark Davis 0 0 5.51 19 0 0 16.1 5 14
Kerry Ligtenberg 1 0 3.00 15 0 1 15.0 4 19
Pete Harnisch 1 1 5.14 4 3 0 14.0 12 10
Angel Miranda 0 0 3.86 10 0 0 14.0 9 8
Mike Misuraca 0 0 11.32 5 0 0 10.1 7 10
Sean Maloney 0 0 5.14 3 0 0 7.0 2 5
Greg Hansell 0 0 9.64 3 0 0 4.2 1 5
John LeRoy 1 0 0.00 1 0 0 2.0 3 3
Paul Wagner 1 0 9.00 2 0 0 2.0 0 0

🏆 Postseason Results

NL Championship
Lost to FLO 4-2
NL Division Series
ATL def. HOU 3-0

👥 Roster (82)

Joel Adamson Brian Banks Danny Bautista Rafael Belliard Mike Bielecki Jeff Blauser Joe Borowski Chris Brock Jeromy Burnitz Paul Byrd Chuck Carr Mike Cather +70 more

82 players

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