Freddie Freeman, Tyler Flowers and Nick Markakis all homered off Chris Sale to lead the Atlanta Braves to an 11-8 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night.
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“Obviously it looked awful, and it was embarrassing”, Bruce said. “There’s a building out there I think he can clear in left field down the line”. The first five batters got hits, and yet Cincinnati was held to two runs.
With one out in the first, Martin Prado and Yelich hit back-to-back opposite-field doubles to give the Marlins a 1-0 lead.
“It’s a different element when you can strike people out”, Reds manager Bryan Price said.
“You’ve got to be so strong to get a base hit and your bat is in 25 pieces”, Prado said. “That’s what makes great pitchers special”.
Christian Yelich homered and drove in two runs and Derek Dietrich also knocked in a run for the Marlins, who returned home after a 3-6 road trip.
The game took only 2 hours and 16 minutes. “That will help our pace of play report when it comes out”. He is hitting.235.The Marlins (47-41) swept the Reds (32-57) for the first time since 2003.Miami’s Mike Dunn (1-1), who set a franchise reliever record with his 369th appearance, earned the win.
“You take wins any way you can get them”, Mattingly said.
Big G’s blast got his teammates going, and they busted it open with three more runs in the sixth. “That’s something that’s probably going to continue throughout the second half”. “If we play the type of baseball we’re capable of, we’ve got a chance to do something special”. Reds RHP Homer Bailey (elbow surgery) made a rehab start on Thursday, allowing six hits and two runs in 3 2/3 innings at Triple-A Louisville.
“I’m glad. I think that it’s one of those signs that I’m blessed by God that it happened”. X-rays revealed a hairline fracture.
“We were very bad today defensively”, Reds manager Bryan Price said. “It was real sore”.
MIAMI (AP) – An NL All-Star jersey was draped over the chair at Giancarlo Stanton’s locker Sunday, and lately it’s looking like a better fit. Saturday it was at third base, this time at the plate trying to score from second on Tucker Barnhart’s single. It was scored 1-3-6-3-1-4. The homer, which was Yelich’s seventh of the season, was hit to center.
“(Straily’s) job was to battle and give us a chance to win”, Price said, “and that’s what he did”.
After the break, the Reds return home to face the Milwaukee Brewers for a weekend series that begins Friday.
Reds starters have an ERA of 5.86 this month.
“We’ll see”, he said. “We don’t have to make that decision right now”. Billy Hamilton smacked a single into right to start the inning and took second when Giancarlo Stanton booted the ball. “It’s fine and everything should be good”, Hamilton said.
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But Straily was also saved a few damaging hits along the way. “It sounds like things are getting better”.
