Atlanta Braves at Boston Red Sox

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Atlanta Braves

23-22, 8-15 Away

Final
4 - 2

Boston Red Sox

22-24, 11-10 Home

Chris Sale strikes out 8 and leads the Braves to a 4-2 win over the Red Sox

Sale (2-3), who won a World Series with Boston, earned his first win since April 25. The 36-year-old left-hander allowed five hits and an earned run with two walks.

The reigning National League Cy Young winner lowered his ERA from 3.97 to 3.62. Also a Gold Glove winner for the first time in his career last season, Sale went down to his knees on a comebacker by Boston’s Nick Sogard and got up and made the play for the first out of the fifth.

Sale spent six seasons with the Red Sox (2017-23) and recorded the final out that clinched Boston’s 2018 championship. He is 2-0 against the Red Sox since getting traded to Atlanta during the 2023-24 offseason.

Matt Olson and Sean Murphy hit consecutive homers in the second inning for Atlanta and the Braves added two runs in the ninth when Red Sox reliever Brennan Bernardino issued back-to-back walks with the bases loaded.

Raisel Iglesias allowed an RBI single to Boston’s Trevor Story in the ninth inning and earned his eighth save.

The Braves (23-22) became the fifth team to move above .500 after losing 7 or more consecutive games to open a season.

The solo homers were the only runs allowed by Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet (4-3) in seven innings. He struck out eight and walked none.

Jarren Duran had two hits and reached base safely three times – all against Sale – while Rob Refsnyder hit a solo homer in the seventh.

Key moment In a span of three pitches in the second inning, the game went from scoreless to Atlanta going up for good. Olson went the opposite way for eighth home run of the season. Murphy sent an 0-1 pitch from Crochet into the Green Monster seats for his eighth homer.

Key stat Crochet leads MLB with five starts of at least seven innings.

Up next Atlanta RHP Grant Holmes (2-3, 4.14) faces Boston RHP Lucas Giolito in the middle game of the series Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Abreu flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Story to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Abreu hit for Sogard
	9th Inning	Story singled to center, Bregman scored.
	9th Inning	Campbell struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Refsnyder grounded out to third, Bregman to second.

Statistics

ATL		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
12	Ground Balls	9
9	Strikeouts	10
4	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	2
5	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	30
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	0
11	Fly Balls	11
1	Caught Stealing	2
156	Pitches	137
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
13	Total Bases	11
37	Plate Appearances	34
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	2
3.8	Runs Created	3.1
.219	Batting Average	.200
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.406	Slugging Percentage	.367
.313	Secondary Average	.267
.324	On Base Percentage	.294
.731	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.661
1.1	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
3.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.2
29.0	Batter Rating	21.5
16.0	At Bats Per Home Run	30.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
4.22	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.03
.188	Isolated Power	.167
0.56	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.30
.135	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.088
.094	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.067
8.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
79.5	MLB Rating	72.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0