Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Atlanta 5, Florida 0
When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Where: Turner Field, Atlanta, Georgia
Temperature: 68°
Umpires: Home - Mike Everitt, 1B - Mark Wegner, 2B - Chris Guccione, 3B - Mike Winters
Attendance: 13865

Tommy Hanson pitched seven shutout innings to earn his first victory of the season and lead the host Atlanta Braves to a 5-0 victory over the Florida Marlins on Tuesday.

Jason Heyward hit his third homer, Brian McCann hit his first homer and Chipper Jones added two RBIs for the Braves, who snapped a two-game losing streak during which they scored a total of two runs.

Hanson (1-2) allowed four hits, walked two and struck out five, and improved to 4-1 lifetime against the Marlins.

Eric O’Flaherty and Peter Moylan combined to pitch the eighth, and Scott Linebrink pitched the ninth and struck out two.

Marlins starter Chris Volstad (0-2) was knocked out of the game with two outs in the fifth after allowing eight hits and five runs.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Florida   Atlanta
Chris Volstad Player Tommy Hanson
Loss W/L Win
4.2 IP 7.0
3 Strikeouts 5
8 Hits 4
9.64 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Florida   Atlanta
Chris CoghlanPlayer Martin Prado
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Florida 5 0 7 .167 18 7 0 4 0 0
Atlanta 9 2 18 .290 6 5 5 2 0 0