Fried allows 3 hits in 8 innings as Braves top Pirates 6-1
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Max Fried allowed solely three hits in eight innings, pacing the Atlanta Braves to a 6-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday evening.
Fried (12-4) struck out seven and walked one, retiring 20 of the ultimate 23 batters he confronted, and allowed one run. The All-Star left-hander received by way of eight innings for the second time this season. He gave up two hits to the Rockies in eight shutout innings on June 3.
Atlanta has taken the primary two of the three-game sequence, and 13 of 15 total, to maneuver nearer to the first-place New York Mets within the NL East.
The Pirates have dropped 10 of 12. They’ve scored solely two runs by way of the primary two video games towards the Braves, together with a 2-1 loss on Monday.
Six straight hits to start out the fifth powered Atlanta to 5 runs. The Braves tied it 1-all on Travis d’Arnaud’s thirteenth homer 409 toes to left discipline off a curveball from JT Brubaker (3-11), the primary pitch of the inning. William Contreras singled forward of a Michael Harris II double, establishing Vaughn Grissom’s RBI single.
Robbie Grossman adopted with one other RBI single. Ronald Acuña Jr. had the sixth consecutive hit, a single to proper. Grissom scored when Dansby Swanson grounded right into a drive out and Grossman went dwelling on Austin Riley’s sacrifice fly.
A lead-off single from Grissom within the third was the Braves’ solely hit getting into the fifth.
Riley’s two-out single within the seventh prolonged the result in 5.
Brubaker went 6 2/3 innings, permitting six runs on 9 hits with eight strikeouts.
Michael Chavis put the Pirates forward within the second along with his thirteenth dwelling run to left discipline. Chavis had solely two homers in his earlier 29 video games, every towards Arizona on Aug. 9.
Fried didn’t permit a second hit till Ben Gamel singled with two outs within the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes (mid-muscle again pressure) was reinstated from the 10-day injured listing. … INF Kevin Padlo was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis. … C José Godoy cleared waivers and accepted project to Indianapolis.
UP NEXT
RHP Kyle Wright (15-5, 3.14 ERA) will take the mound for Atlanta within the sequence finale on Wednesday afternoon towards RHP Mitch Keller (4-9, 4.49). Wright has allowed not more than two runs in 5 of his previous six begins. Keller left with proper shoulder fatigue two innings into his final outing, permitting 5 runs (4 earned) to the Pink Sox on Aug. 16.
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