The Atlanta Braves got whacked by the Los Angeles Dodgers , losing tonight’s game 11-2 to officially drop the series to LA. Atlanta’s resident sinkerballer, making his third start of the season, struggled in his third career start against the Dodgers. Elder allowed seven runs in just 3.1 innings, allowing seven hits and four walks against just four strikeouts.
Throwing 71 pitches , Elder just struggled to miss Dodgers bats tonight. He picked up just nine whiffs and allowed six hard-hit balls. Locations seemed to be a problem for Elder tonight, with all three homers coming on pitches that were left waist-high. Dylan Lee came in and ate some innings for Atlanta, pitching 2.2 innings with three hits but no runs allowed, striking out three. His extended relief outing allowed Atlanta to use only Tyler Matzek and Jackson Stephens to finish the game, saving some higher-leverage arms that pitched last night in extras and could potentially be needed tomorrow. The “Big Three” for the Braves - Ronald Acuña Jr., Austin Riley, and Matt Olson - have been slumping recently.
While Riley didn’t pile up the statistical numbers, getting only one hit, he ripped that single off the bat at 108.2 . Ronald had three hits in this one, but that was half of the team’s total six hits in the contest. Atlanta just couldn’t figure out Tyler Glasnow, who entered this game as MLB’s strikeout leader and won’t drop that mantle after striking out ten Braves tonight.
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