1999 Atlanta Braves season


The 1999 Atlanta Braves season marked the franchise's 34th season in Atlanta and 129th overall. The Braves won their fifth consecutive division title with a 103-59 record and 6 game lead over the New York Mets. The Braves appeared in the World Series for the fifth time during the 1990s. The Braves lost all four games of the 1999 World Series to the New York Yankees, resulting in a sweep. The Braves played their 2nd World Series against the Yankees in 4 years, with the first being in 1996, which they played in six games. This is to date their last National League pennant.
Two key players on the 1999 Braves were Chipper Jones & John Rocker. Jones won the National League's Most Valuable Player award with a.310 average, 45 HRs, 110 RBIs, and sealed the award with his September heroics against the New York Mets. Rocker recorded 38 saves as Atlanta's closer, but later created controversy due to his racist and homophobic comments in a December 27, 1999, Sports Illustrated article.

Offseason

Opening Day starters

Record vs. opponents

Transactions

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
CEddie Pérez10430977.249730
1BRyan Klesko133404120.2972180
2BBret Boone152608153.2522063
SSWalt Weiss11027963.226229
3BChipper Jones157567181.31945110
LFGerald Williams143422116.2751768
CFAndruw Jones162592163.2752684
RFBrian Jordan153576163.28323115

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
Javy López6524678.3171145
Ozzie Guillén9223256.241120
Randall Simon9021869.317525
Brian Hunter11418145.249630
José Hernández4816642.253419
Keith Lockhart10816142.261121
Otis Nixon8415131.20508
Greg Myers347216.22229
Howard Battle15176.35315
Pascual Matos681.12502
Mark DeRosa780.00000
Jorge Fábregas680.00000
George Lombard662.33300
Freddy García221.50011

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

National League Division Series

Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros

Atlanta wins series, 3-1

National League Championship Series

Game 1

October 12: Turner Field, Atlanta
The Braves began their eighth consecutive NLCS with a 4-2 victory over the Mets, defeating a team they left for dead two weeks earlier. Greg Maddux tossed seven solid innings, and future NLCS MVP Eddie Pérez who came up big for the absence of Javy López, homered. Light-hitting shortstop Walt Weiss went 3-for-4 with a run scored and RBI for the Braves.
John Rocker recorded the final four outs for the save, his second of the postseason, to seal Atlanta's fourth straight win.

Game 2

October 13: Turner Field, Atlanta

Game 3

October 15: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Game 4

October 16: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Game 5

October 17: Shea Stadium, Flushing, New York

Game 6

October 19: Turner Field, Atlanta

World Series

Game 1

October 23, 1999, at Turner Field in Atlanta.

Game 2

October 24, 1999, at Turner Field in Atlanta

Game 3

October 26, 1999, at Yankee Stadium in New York

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_gamepage.jsp?story_page=bb_99ws_gm4_atlnya Game 4

October 27, 1999, at Yankee Stadium in New York

Award winners

1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game