Braves Report

When it rains, it pours. The Braves scored as many runs in this game as they have in their last 3. This was made possible by timely hitting, sloppy play by the Giants, and Jason Heyward. Let’s hope they can keep it up.

Derek Lowe started this game, presumably to let big-game winner Kawakami go on Sunday against last year’s Cy Young, Tim Lincecum. Lowe struggled a bit with control, as he went 6 innings, gave up 4 hits, a run, struck out 4, and walked a career-high 7. Not his best outing of the season. Following him was Moylan and Saito, each of whom pitched a scoreless inning. Jesse Chavez took over in the 9th instead of Wagner, because the game was out of hand by then, and gave up a run in an inning of work. Once again, a pretty solid effort from the bullpen.

The real story has to be the offense, who didn’t really do anything at first. They only scored their first run in the 6th inning, but then the gates came off after that. They racked up 10 hits, 2 each from Prado and Infante. Jason Heyward went 3-for-3 on the night with a walk and a solo shot that just cleared the left field fence. He also singled in a run. Troy Glaus got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Eric Hinske came on to pinch hit and had an RBI double. Infante also scored on a wild pitch in the 8th. All in all, a good showing.

Braves end their losing streak, 7-2.

Sunday’s game @ 4:05 PM EST on Fox Sports South, if it doesn’t rain.

Kawakami (0 – 0, -.–) vs. Lincecum (1 – 0, 0.00).