The Atlanta Braves scored late to break a tie and ultimately take down the Boston Red Sox , 4-2, on Tuesday night in Truist Park. López entered with the best ERA of any Braves starter and it won’t be going up by much.
The 30-year-old righty gave Atlanta 5.1 innings tonight, allowing only two runs on six hits and four walks while striking out five. The first of the two runs came via those four walks - in the sixth, López’s third walk of the inning got Boston on the board and prompted manager Brian Snitker to pull him. Reliever Aaron Bummer’s attempt at an inning-ending double play ball was hit off of his own shin, bringing in the second run of the inning, but he got two strikeouts of Jarren Duran and Rafael Devers to keep the game tied at two.
López varied his velocity a lot more than usual tonight, reaching back and getting his old reliever fastball of 98.0 for a strikeout of Tyler O’Neil in the 5th and dropping it down as low as 91.6 to get Vaughn Grissom out ahead in the 4th. His game average of 95.3 was within one-tenth of a mph of his season average, however, and this appeared to be just more of the evolution of López as a starter.
Kelenic’s power numbers to start the season have been down, though, with no homers through his first 26 regular season games in a Braves uniform. Kelenic took Red Sox starter Kutter Crawford deep tonight, only Crawford’s second homer allowed of the season, in the bottom of the 3rd inning to put Atlanta on the board.
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