Philadelphia Phillies vs Atlanta Braves Match Player Stats On Jun 07, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 7, 2017

ATLANTA -- Mike Foltynewicz turned in seven scoreless innings for the second straight start, and the Atlanta Braves' hitters made sure that the right-hander got a victory for his effort this time as they produced their biggest offensive explosion of the season.

Nick Markakis drove in five runs with three doubles, Dansby Swanson hit a three-run homer as part of a three-hit game, and the Braves snapped the Philadelphia Phillies' four-game winning streak with a 14-1 rout Wednesday night.

The Braves punished the Phillies' bullpen with four runs in the seventh inning and six runs in the eighth. Matt Adams capped the scoring rampage with a two-run homer off Andres Blanco, an infielder forced to the mound in a mop-up role.

Foltynewicz (4-5) allowed four hits, walked two and struck out four in a follow-up to a dominant performance at Cincinnati last Friday, when he yielded just two hits while striking out 10 and walking two. The Braves lost that game 3-2 in 10 innings, though.

Jerad Eickhoff, who won 11 games last season for the Phillies, fell to 0-7 despite yielding just four hits in five innings. One of the four runs charged to the right-hander was unearned, and he had four strikeouts and one walk.

Eickhoff had faced the minimum 10 batters thanks to a pickoff until Brandon Phillips singled with one out in the fourth inning. Markakis then delivered a run-scoring double to put the Braves ahead.

Before Eickhoff got an out in the fifth inning, the Braves led 4-0. Third baseman Maikel Franco was charged with a three-base error on Tyler Flowers' hard grounder, and Rio Ruiz walked before Swanson picked on a hanging 0-1 slider and sent his sixth homer of the season over the fence in left-center field.

Odubel Herrera's eighth double in five games gave the Phillies a first-inning threat, but Foltynewicz weathered that and didn't allow two runners in the same inning until the sixth.

Markakis had a two-run double in the Braves' four-run seventh inning and another in the six-run eighth as the Phillies went through three relievers before turning to Blanco.

Herrera hit his second double in the ninth inning and came around to score on Daniel Nava's single as the Phillies avoided a shutout.

NOTES: RHP Hector Neris was removed as the Phillies' closer at least temporarily and replaced by RHP Pat Neshek, who picked up his first save when he bailed out Neris in the ninth inning Tuesday. "We've got to figure out what's wrong with his split. It was unhittable last year," manager Pete Mackanin said of Neris. ... The Braves put 3B Adonis Garcia on the 10-day disabled list because of a sprained left middle finger sustained on a swing Tuesday. They recalled OF Lane Adams from Triple-A Gwinnett. ... RHP R.A. Dickey (3-4, 5.10 ERA) will start Thursday's series finale for the Braves against RHP Ben Lively (1-0, 1.29 ERA). Lively beat San Francisco in his major league debut in Philadelphia last Saturday. ... The Braves will promote LHP Sean Newcomb and RHP Matt Wisler from Gwinnett to make starts in Saturday's doubleheader against the New York Mets. It will be the major league debut for Newcomb, obtained from the Los Angeles Angels in the Andrelton Simmons trade two years ago.