He's BACK! The BEST of Craig Kimbrel with the Braves

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In honor of Craig Kimbrel’s return to Atlanta, we look back at his best moments as a Brave!  Don't forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/mlb  Follow us elsewhere too: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlb/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mlb TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mlb  Check out MLB.com daily to watch the MLB.TV Free Game of the Day! https://mlb.com/freegame  Visit our site for all baseball news, stats and scores! https://www.mlb.com/

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00:00Kimbrough born and bred a closer in the Braves organization just picked up his

00:07first big league save on a wicked slider and the Atlanta Braves have swept

00:13the New York Mets and a ground ball to short Janice with the first and the

00:20Braves have earned their third consecutive shutout Craig Kimbrough

00:25records another save

00:36in what could be a division series preview the Atlanta Braves win the

00:42first two games of this series Braves win Atlanta erases a three nothing

00:50deficit that's 33 appearances no runs 32 2 thirds inning pitch 12 hits 10

00:55walks 57 strikeouts amazing and got him looking came in on him and worth didn't

01:01like the call first out of the night going for the record he got it the 41st

01:09save of the year for Craig Kimbrough a major league record another strikeout

01:14added to Craig's list two punch outs in the ninth inning a hundred and seven on

01:19the year and a major league baseball rookie record 41st save for Craig

01:24Kimbrough and a big bear hug from his catcher Brian McCann and he did it

01:29before the first of September amazing and fittingly it was as they would say

01:33good old country hardball right there a power hitter power pitcher he reared

01:37back and let one fly and Morse couldn't catch up to it

01:42ballgame over for the 11th time Kimbrough strikes out the side and the

01:48Atlanta Braves pick up a hugely important win tonight at Nationals Park

01:54the 1-2 pitch ends the game and the Braves have beaten the Phillies on ball

02:01two strikes ballgame over Kimbrough strikes out four in the ninth inning and

02:09the Braves have beaten the Marlins a three nothing shot out boy outstanding

02:14Atlanta pitching again tonight it started with Paul Mulholland it ended

02:20with Craig Kimbrough struck him out and the Braves have won it to nothing

02:26Kimbrough locked him up with another backdoor slider consecutive strikeouts

02:31with the tying runs on base Craig Kimbrough with yet another save and the

02:36Braves have won their 92nd game as this huge crowd celebrates and they will for

02:41a while strike three and Kimbrough retires the Pirates and ends the season

02:49in the win column for Atlanta the Braves shut out Pittsburgh by a final score of

02:55four nothing and a whole lot of history written for the Braves franchise on this

02:59cloudy day at PNC Park this fun day well a couple of appearances ago Craig

03:04Kimbrough came in to get the final out of the eighth inning which he did and

03:07then he could not get it out in the ninth inning as the Red Sox were able

03:11to beat Kimbrough and the Braves and now for the second time in barely more

03:15than a week Kimbrough coming into the eighth inning popped up Simmons drifts

03:22out he's got it and the Braves have beaten Arizona and Craig Kimbrough has

03:29passed John Smoltz for first place all time on the Atlanta Braves saves list

03:36number 155 and it comes in Phoenix Arizona every saves important but this

03:43baseball is mightily important and I'm sure it'll be hand-delivered by

03:48Hamilton Simmons to him there's the record setter that was not the one a

03:55swing and a miss will do it tonight Craig Kimbrough wraps up the save a neat

04:00ninth inning package that preserves a three nothing shutout win for Atlanta

04:06for whatever reason the Braves mastery and dominance of the Washington

04:10Nationals has continued fly ball shallow left center and BJ's got it and the

04:17Braves have beaten the Mets tonight Aaron Herring is your team leader in

04:21wins Craig Kimbrough is your major league leader in saves and the Braves

04:26are back into a first place tie with the Nationals in the east after snapping

04:30their four game losing streak tonight and the Braves begin their second half

04:44with a victory over the Phillies concert with the Nationals loss the Braves are

04:51alone atop the Eastern Prowl by a game line to second and Kimbrough's out of

04:57the game and he's fired up Miami blew a golden opportunity they loaded the bases

05:03with nobody out two strikeouts and a lineup sends our game to the bottom of

05:09the ninth inning and a bouncing ball to the right side this should do it and it

05:15does Kimbrough three up and three down save number thirty four Alex would

05:20outstanding twelve strikeouts and seven and a third for the win and Atlanta

05:24two out of three from Washington the Nationals struggles in this ballpark

05:28continue as they have over the last couple of years and the Braves move

05:31within three and a half bouncing ball to short might do it gotta hurry and the

05:38Braves have beaten the Phillies Kimbrough nails it down for Irvin

05:41Santana new baseball for Kimbrough rubbed it a little nudge yes and here's

05:48another 0 2 pitch chopper off the end of the bat Freeman's got it he'll toss to

05:52Kimbrough foot race Kimbrough wins it a hard fought well earned victory for the

05:58Braves in 10 innings swing and a miss gassed him at ninety seven and the

06:04Braves salvaged the finale so the Braves offense finally comes to life sparked by

06:08a home run by B.J. Upton outstanding pitching by Aaron Horang and the final

06:13score today as the Braves go to seventy five and seventy one Braves six

06:18Nationals two

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