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Chipper Jones went hitless last night for just the 4th time all season… pretty incredible. Right now he has a .413 batting average. In the last 40 years, 2 Braves have actually done better than that through the team’s first 34 games. Some of the names on the top-5 might surprise you…

Highest Brave batting average through 34 games over last 40 years

1959: Hank Aaron .468 (ended up at .355 and won NL batting title)

1970: Rico Carty .419 (ended up at .366 and won NL batting title)

2008: Chipper Jones .413

1997: Jeff Blauser .410 (ended up at .308 and was 12th in NL in batting)

1971: Ralph Garr .397 (ended up at .343 and was 2nd in NL batting behind Joe Torre)

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