“ATLANTA “ Nationals phenom and Braves thorn Trea Turner interrupted right-hander Matt Wisler”s strong start before a rain delay ended it.
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“(The trainers) told me yesterday that (Strasburg) was beginning exercises and he was coming along fine, as far as I know”, Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. “I’ve shown that I can be really good and I’ve shown I can be really bad”.
Atlanta Braves Anthony Recker (20) singles to center field bringing in Adonis Garcia to score in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Saturday, Sep.
Atlanta continued its run of surprisingly competent offensive output, collecting a total of 12 hits over six and two-thirds before rain cut the game short. The Braves have scored six runs against him twice in a span of 12 days, after totaling eight hits and six runs in three innings September 6 at Washington in a game the Nationals still won, 9-7.
Washington is now 88-60 and holds a firm nine-game lead over the second-place New York Mets in the National League East division.
After a 1-hour, 7-minute delay in the top of the sixth, the Braves scored three runs in the bottom of the inning to make it 6-2 on Garcia’s two-run single and Freddie Freeman’s RBI double. “Today I came out aggressively and made them put the ball in play”. “They were swinging kind of early”.
That’s getting a lot done in just 11 games.
Gonzalez’s worst start recently came against the Braves in Washington on September 6, when he gave up six runs in three innings. He was Arizona’s opening-day starter past year and was making his first big league start since July 7, 2015 for Arizona.
In his first start since July 2, Ross trailed 1-0 in the second on Jace Peterson’s RBI single.
The Nationals wasted a chance to rattle Collmenter in the second when he walked three of the first four batters but struck out Turner to escape the jam. Collmenter also stranded a runner at third in the third. “Aside from the two balls that left the yard, I feel good about most of my stuff”. I’m not sure who is pitching for Washington but I’ll back the better squad… Washington are 7-1 in the last 8 meetings in Atlanta and the over is 13-3-1 in the last 17 meetings.
Interim Braves manager Brian Snitker hasn’t seen a rookie as talented as Nationals center fielder Trea Turner.
Strasburg, who is 15-4 with a 3.60 ERA, played light catch for about five minutes Saturday morning at Turner Field in what was a small but important first step in his attempt to return at some point this year.
As for the rest of the game, the Nationals dropped their second this weekend and just their fourth in nineteen against the Braves this season, 6-2 final, in a rain-soaked and delayed affair that wrapped up the season series between the NL East rivals with the Nationals 15-4 overall against the Braves in 2016. Both are career highs and rank first in the majors among active streaks. Inciarte raised his average since the All-Star break to.355 with his ninth multi-hit game this month.2. It was the 10th time in those games that he’s recorded three hits or more. The matchups for the first game are Washington’s A.J. Cole (1-2, 4.71) vs. Miami’s Wei-Yin Chen (5-4, 4.99). “If we take that into NY, maybe we can take a series again there”.
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RHP Aaron Blair (0-6, 8.23) was activated from the disabled list Sunday ahead of a Monday start against the Mets.
