Atlanta 8, LA Dodgers 1
When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Where: Turner Field, Atlanta, Georgia
Temperature:
80°
Umpires:
Home -
Ted Barrett, 1B -
Ben May, 2B -
Angel Hernandez, 3B -
Will Little
Attendance:
14160
By The Sports Xchange
ATLANTA -- Tyler Flowers matched his career high with four hits and drove in two runs to help the Atlanta Braves beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-1 Tuesday and extend their winning streak to four games.
Flowers, a catcher who signed a two-year free agent deal in the offseason, was 4-for-4 and improved his batting average to .412. He also scored a run.
Atlanta had 10 hits, including two hits and two RBI from Jeff Francoeur, and posted a season-high for runs.
The winning pitcher was rookie Ryan Weber, who was recalled from the minor leagues Monday. Weber (1-0) earned his first career victory by pitching 3 2/3 innings of relief, allowing one run on three hits and no walks with four strikeouts.
The losing pitcher was ex-Brave Alex Wood, who was victimized by two infield errors. Wood (1-2) pitched four innings and allowed six runs, three earned, on seven hits and three walks. He struck out one and threw 88 pitches.
The Dodgers, who entered the game with only four errors in their first 13 games, committed three miscues that led to four unearned runs.
The Braves scored two runs in the first inning. Francoeur drove home the first on a long sacrifice fly to center field, and Flowers followed with an opposite-field RBI single.
Atlanta added two runs in the third. Flowers poked a single to right to drive in a run and Mallex Smith got an RBI when he coaxed a bases-loaded walk from Wood.
The Dodgers chased Atlanta starter Williams Perez in the fourth when Adrian Gonzalez and Yasiel Puig had back-to-back singles with one out. The Braves brought in Weber, who squelched the rally by retiring Yasmani Grandal on a fielder's choice and striking out Howie Kendrick.
The Braves tacked on two runs with two outs in the fourth on consecutive singles by Francoeur and Flowers to push the lead to 6-0.
Los Angeles got a run back in the fifth when Joc Pederson scored on Corey Seager's hard infield grounder to first baseman Freddie Freeman.
The Braves added two more runs in the seventh on an opposite-field double by Smith. That ended a stretch of 16 consecutive scoreless innings for the Dodgers' bullpen.
NOTES: Rookie CF Mallex Smith, the Braves' 2015 minor league player of the year, made his Turner Field debut. ... The Braves placed INF Gordon Beckham (hamstring) on the 15-day disabled list and promoted RHP Ryan Weber from Triple-A Gwinnett. ... The Braves switched starters and moved RHP Julio Teheran (0-2) to Wednesday when he will oppose RHP Ross Stripling (0-0) in the second game of the three-game series. Teheran felt ill when he arrived at the park. The change was necessitated when the Braves had to use Matt Wisler in relief on Sunday. ... The Dodgers' bullpen entered the series having thrown 14 consecutive scoreless innings. ... Atlanta OF Hector Olivera will spend at least two more weeks on administrative leave. He was arrested last week on domestic violence charges and originally placed on paid administrative leave for a week.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Dodgers |
|
Atlanta |
Alex Wood
|
Player |
Williams Perez
|
Loss |
W/L |
No Decision |
4.0 |
IP |
3.1 |
1 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
7 |
Hits |
2 |
6.75 |
ERA |
0.00 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
LA Dodgers
|
5 |
0 |
5 |
.167 |
16 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
Atlanta
|
10 |
0 |
11 |
.294 |
18 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
0 |