April 24: Braves 11, Marlins 6

[Jsh1284]

Timely Hitting, Strong Pen leads Braves past Fish
By: Steven Headley (http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/member.php?u=4) | Braves-Nation.com

Four Braves relievers (Pete Moylan, Tyler Yates, Rafael Soriano and Bob Wickman) combined to throw six shutout innings and our Braves scored ALL their runs with two outs on Tuesday night.

The Braves got off to a good start in the first. Andruw singled home Kelly Johnson whom walked. After McCann reached, Frenchy immediately followed with an RBI double. Then, like clockwork, Scott Thorman hit a two-out two-RBI single.

Mark Redman couldn't hold the four run lead, though. He constantly left pitches over the plate, allowing an RBI single to Cabrera and then a three run homer to Cody Ross.

We weren't ready to give up yet, though. Marlins' rookie Rick Vanden Hurk walked the bases loaded in the top of the second and was immediately pulled. However, Lee Gardner couldn't stop the bleeding. He walked Brian McCann with them' loaded. He then threw a first pitch fastball to Francoeur, which he ripped to left for yet another RBI. He leads the league with 24.

Redman had an uneventful bottom of the 2nd. However, in the bottom of the 3rd, he blew the lead yet again when Cody Ross hit a two run double.

Pete Moylan replaced Redman after the 3rd. He pitched three scoreless innings, allowing one hit.

In the sixth, Brian McCann came through in the clutch with a SAC fly, making the score 7-6. This ended up being all the Braves needed.

Tyler Yates threw a 1-2-3 7th inning and Soriano had a 1-2-3 8th.

In the 9th inning, the Braves blew it wide open. After a couple of hits, the struggling Ryan Langerhans was walked intentionally to load the bases for Pete Orr. Petey lined one through the hole on the right side, scoring Francoeur and Thorman. KJ followed with an RBI single that scored Langerhans. Then, for just a bit more insurance, Renteria singled in Pete Orr.

That ended the scoring at 11-6.

Bob Wickman came in to pitch the 9th. He allowed one hit.

NOTES:
The Braves' pen pitched six innings of two-hit, shutout baseball.
With this win, Atlanta avoided losing their first series of the season for now. They will need a win tomorrow to keep the streak alive.

[BattleCry755]

As I look at the weekly braves schedule and see Redman's name as the projected starter I usually assume we are going to lose that game. Lets face it..he is just down right awful. He is a man who lives on the corners and when you have an 85 mph fastball if you dont hit that corner anyone is going to take that ball to deep left center. The braves DESPERATELY need to find someone who can atleast keep things close to finish up the rotation. Does anyone have any thoughts about Villareal or does anyone know about Cormier and on his return to the rotation. One of conventional wisdom would think that there is atleast one pitcher somewhere in baseball who may be available who is better then redman..then again I am sitting at home while JS is in the clubhouse..nevertheless im pleased on how things have gone this far I would just feel alot more confident in our chances If i didnt see a Redman start coinciding with an automatic loss..

[GrandMasterB]

How'd that "automatic loss" thing work out for them yesterday? Oh yeah, that's right. The Braves won. Yes, he's had a couple bad starts. But you know what, the team's winning. He'll get things turned around. By the way, there's already a thread on this (http://www.braves-nation.com/forums/f-major-league-baseball-2/t-who-should-replace-redman-in-the-rotation-3735.html).

[McCarroll21]

Yeah, keep comments here about a moment in the game or constructive criticism for any of the writers that submit articles. If you want to rant about the game, there's a gamethread open for posting until the one for the next game is out. Other than that, we already have the Redman thing beaten to death in some other threads.

[Nasadega]

I've just watched the game. The bravos really impressed me. Except Redman who's pitching like a rollercoaster (which means good for his next game :) ), everybody played great baseball... Francoeur keeps on piling the 2 out RBI's, Johnson the K's, Wickman the saves, damn last years pen would never had pitched 6 shutout innings in that situation... And our offense is getting away from that .239 BA, hopefully they stay that hot for a long time. Still on pace to win the series!