Thursday, August 12, 2004

Atlanta Braves 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2

Jaret Wright, Comeback Player of the Year? He's certainly a legitimate candidate. He won his 9th straight game to improve to 11-5 and he lowered his ERA to 2.95. JD Drew went 2 for 4 and hit the go-ahead homer. Johnny Estrada hit his 7th home run and Andruw Jones hit his 18th homer.

Wright pitched 7 innings, and allowed 4 hits, walked 5, and he struck out 6. He allowed 2 runs, but only one of them was earned. In a bases loaded one out situation during the 2nd inning, Wright got Chad Moeller to hit a fly ball to right field. JD Drew threw a bullet that beat the runner by about 10 feet. The problem was that Estrada forgot to catch the ball, and tagged Lyle Overbay with an empty glove. This put the Braves down 1-0, but Estrada atoned for that error with a 2 run homer to make it 2-1. After Geoff Jenkins hit a solo home run for Milwaukee in the 6th inning, JD Drew hit his 26th homer to put the Braves ahead to stay. Andruw added an insurance homer later to make it 4-2.

Game notes: Both Johnny Estrada and Chipper Jones played tonight after leaving the game and missing yesterday's game, respectively. I'm not sure if Chipper's 100%, as he went 0 for 4 and struck out 3 times against Ben Sheets.

Ben Sheets pitched an 8 inning complete game in the losing effort for Milwaukee, following up his 18 K game earlier this year with 13 strikeouts in this one.

2 Comments:

At 8:06 PM, Blogger Jamie said...

I forgot to mention that Reitsma and Smoltz pitched the 8th and 9th innings. Each pitched scoreless innings, and Smoltz picked up his 28th save.

 
At 8:09 PM, Blogger Jamie said...

Colorado beat Philadephia 3-1, and the Braves extended their lead to 7 games over the Phillies.

I noticed that Shawn Estes picked up the win and improved his record to 13-4. Who would have guessed he'd be 13-4 at this point? His ERA is 5.59, but he does pitch for the Rockies after all.

 

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