Cubs fall to Atlanta Braves, have now lost six of seven

ATLANTA (AP)
— Travis Demeritte hit his first big league homer in almost iii years and made an impressive catch to dorsum another potent outing by Max Fried, giving the Atlanta Braves a much-needed 3-ane victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.

The World Series champions won for only the tertiary time in their last eight games. The Cubs accept lost half dozen of seven.

Following up his best showing of the season in a win at the Dodgers, Fried (two-2) pitched four-striking ball over half dozen innings. His only big mistake was a changeup that Ian Happ launched into the left-field seats leading off the third to tie the game at 1.

Fried got some defensive help from Demeritte, who raced over from his position in right field to brand a nice sliding grab in foul territory to end the fourth.

After getting some treatment on a skinned-up knee, Demeritte bankrupt the tie in the fifth with an opposite-field liner into the Chop House eating place in right field off Marcus Stroman (0-3).

It was Demeritte's first homer with the Braves and fourth of his big league career. He striking the first three with the Detroit Tigers in 2019, the terminal of them on Sept. 12 against the New York Yankees.

The onetime first-circular pick has spent most of his professional person career in the minors, including the beginning of this flavour later failing to earn a spot on the Braves opening-day roster.

But Demeritte is finally getting a chance to impress in Atlanta, at least until Ronald Acuña Jr. returns from an injury rehab consignment.

Will Smith, Tyler Matzek and Kenley Jansen finished up for the Braves with one scoreless inning apiece. Jansen earned his 5th salvage in 5 chances.

Adam Duvall put the Braves ahead in the second with a cede fly. After Demeritte'due south homer, the Braves tacked on an insurance run when Michael Hermosillo permit a liner skip by him, the ball rolling almost to the center-field wall.

Dansby Swanson, who had been running from beginning on the hit-and-run, came all the way around to score. Ozzie Albies wound up at third on the 2-base fault merely was stranded there.

Capping a terrible game, Hermosillo was inexplicably doubled off first to end the eighth when he took off running on a wing ball to deep correct-center that was caught rather easily by Duvall.

Stroman matched Fried's half dozen-inning stint, giving up six hits and three runs (two earned) with three strikeouts.

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Eddie Rosario got off to a bad start this flavour. In that location's appears to be a good reason. The Braves placed their slumping outfielder on the injured list with blurred vision and swelling in his right eye. He is expected to miss eight to 12 weeks. Rosario was a star of the 2021 postseason, when he was the MVP of the NL Championship Series and helped the Braves win their first World Serial title in 26 years. But he had but three hits in his start 44 at-bats this season for an .068 average, with no homers or RBIs. Turns out, Rosario has been dealing with swelling in his right retina that acquired blurred vision. He was examined by a retinal specialist Mon and will undergo a laser procedure to correct the problem.

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Cubs: RHP Marking Leiter Jr. (0-1, 11.05 ERA) is off to a rough start in his return to the large leagues afterwards 3 total seasons away. He has surrendered 8 hits, half-dozen walks, two homers and ix earned runs over 7 ane-3 innings.

Braves: RHP Charlie Morton (1-ii, 6.33) is looking to go back on runway afterwards giving up nine earned runs, 15 hits and six walks over 10 1-iii innings in his last two starts.

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