Braves Avoid Sweep, Spoil Duke’s Birthday

They finally snapped the losing streak! Not only that, they handed Zach Duke his first loss of the season (on his birthday! I kinda feel bad for him here!) and gave Javier Vazquez his much deserved first win. It was a shut out until James Parr hit a batsman with the bases loaded and made the score 11-1. I like Parr, he was amazing after his September call-up last year, but he’s worrying me this year. I know it’s only his second game of the year, but still, this was not the Parr we saw last year.

Brian McCann and Kelly Johnson didn’t play today (Mac for the eye!) but Chipper Jonez was in the line-up for the first time since the first game of the Marlins series. Mac’s and KJ’s replacements had great days, both shooting in three run homers. Jeff Francoeur, Matt Diaz, and Casey Kotchman also had RBIs, Frenchy with three, Kotchman and Diaz with one. The Bravos had a fifteen-hit, eleven run game and the Pirates had a seven hit, one run game. Both teams had one error. Peter Moylan continues to make his ERA smaller and I see him coming back to his 2007 self- minus the geeky glass of course and of course with more tattoos (which seems to be a subject in just about any interview he does, by the way). Jeff Bennett seemed to get around the jam he created for himself after the triple he could have prevented, but Javy Vazquez was by far the most amazing pitcher today! He went six shut out innings in awesome style! Go Javy! Go Braves!

Now, we’re going to visit the Nationals! Let’s sweep them again!

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