One is a diehard Braves fan. The other bleeds Dodgers blue. They’re identical twins

ATLANTA — The Braves are getting ready for Game 6 of the NLCS, and if all goes right, they could be headed to the World Series tonight.

Channel 2′s Berndt Petersen talked to a diehard Braves fan who is living in a house divided. His identical twin brother is a diehard Dodgers fan.

Pastor Jay Sutton is a man of the cloth, but he also loves baseball.

“I love to go to the ballpark,” Sutton said. “I just love baseball. I love the game.”

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He and his brother, John Sutton, grew up together in Kansas City and then California. Jay Sutton later came to Georgia, but John Sutton stayed in Los Angeles.

Jay Sutton says it was a chance meeting at the Atlanta airport with the skipper Bobby Cox that made him become a Braves fan. He confessed to Cox that he had decided to switch sides.

“And he sort of laughed and chuckled and said, ‘That’s OK, Jay. I pitched for the Dodgers at one point. So it’s OK to be a Braves fan now.”

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It’s been the Braves vs. the Dodgers for the Sutton family ever since.

Jay Sutton loves their friendly sibling rivalry. The brothers ribbed each other over FaceTime before Thursday night’s game.

“What’s it gonna take for you to get Dodger blue out of you and be a Brave?” Jay Sutton asked John.

“Oh my God! I don’t know,” John Sutton said.

“You may have to leave your wife!” Jay Sutton said.

They may be 19,900 miles apart, but the brothers are the best of friends, despite being in opposing dugouts.

“We go to a restaurant and people just stare,” Jay Sutton said. “The question comes up. Are you twins?”

Jay Sutton said he told John before the series started that the Braves would sweep the Dodgers.

If the Braves win tonight, they will play either the Boston Red Sox or the Houston Astros in the World Series.

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