Order another round for Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez, who has learned that a winning streak can be tough to swallow. The Braves won their 13th straight Wednesday night, summarily dismissing the Washington Nationals 6-3 to complete a three-game sweep and take a staggering-for-early-August 15½-game lead in the NL East. Now Gonzalez will have to keep drinking up. It turns out that the streak happened to begin on the day that bullpen coach Eddie Perez first gave the manager some sort of protein drink. Gonzalez hates the taste, but he can't stop drinking it with his team on such a roll; sure enough, he was sipping the concoction from a cup in the dugout a couple of hours before Wednesday's game. Source: ESPN
Second in the division are the Nationals at 6 games under .500 and then there's the rest. So it's the Braves and then collectively the Bad News Bears this year.
