PHILADELPHIA — — Atlanta’s Chris Sale outdueled Cristopher Sánchez in a matchup of two of baseball’s finest pitchers, and the Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 on Friday night time to increase their lead within the NL East to 5 video games.
Ronald Acuña had three hits and drove in a run and Mauricio Dubón homered for the Braves, who received for the ninth time in 11 video games.
Alec Bohm homered and doubled and drove in each runs for the Phillies, who misplaced for simply the fourth time in 19 video games.
Sale (14-9) allowed two runs in six innings with seven strikeouts and a stroll. He entered second within the NL in ERA, which rose barely to 2.10.
Sánchez (16-5) remained caught on 16 victories after surrendering three runs in six innings. He allowed 5 hits and three walks with 5 strikeouts.
Atlanta scored three of its runs off Sánchez within the second inning on Austin Riley’s RBI single, Ha-Seong Kim’s groundout, and Acuña’s RBI double.
The Phillies obtained a run again within the backside of the inning on Bohm’s RBI double and pulled inside 3-2 within the fourth on his one-out solo drive to left.
Philadelphia had runners in scoring place with lower than two outs within the fifth and sixth innings, however couldn’t rating off Sale.
After Dubón hit a two-run shot within the eighth off Orion Kerkering, Raisel Iglesias pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his thirtieth save.
The groups have been assembly for the primary time since April 26, when struggling Philadelphia dropped to 9-19 and fired supervisor Rob Thomson. Since, the two-time defending NL East champion Phillies have gone 70-43 below interim supervisor Don Mattingly.
Friday’s matchup was the opener of a four-game sequence and the primary of seven video games within the subsequent 10 between the golf equipment.
Bryce Harper went 0 for 4 and had his career-best 35-game on-base streak halted.
Philadelphia second baseman Bryson Stott was a late scratch from the lineup resulting from private causes.
Braves LHP Martín Pérez (8-8, 3.05) opposes Philadelphia RHP Zack Wheeler (11-5, 3.31) on Saturday night time.
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