Atlanta Braves at St. Louis Cardinals

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Atlanta Braves

42-52, 18-30 Away

Final
7 - 6

St. Louis Cardinals

50-46, 28-20 Home

Injury fill-in Alvarez scores winning run and Braves hit 3 HRs to edge Cardinals

Nacho Alvarez Jr., filling in for injured third baseman Austin Riley, singled twice and scored the winning run on Jurickson Profar’s ninth-inning groundout against closer Ryan Helsley (3-1).

Murphy, who hit the two longest home runs of this season at Busch Stadium on Friday night, put the Braves ahead 6-5 with a high drive that cleared the glove of José Fermín as he leaped at the left-field wall in the eighth. The three-run shot was Murphy’s 16th homer of the season and the first allowed by reliever Phil Maton in 37 appearances this season.

St. Louis tied it when pinch-runner Garrett Hampson scored on a wild pitch by Daysbel Hernández (4-1) in the eighth.

Raisel Iglesias pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th save.

Yohel Pozo and Nolan Gorman homered, and Brendan Donovan had two hits, including an RBI single in the eighth, for the Cardinals.

St. Louis, which had been shut out in each of Erick Fedde’s previous three starts, broke through with three runs against Atlanta opener Aaron Bummer in the second inning to draw even after early home runs Acuña and Ozuna.

Pozo led off the bottom of the second with a double into the left-field corner and scored on Thomas Saggese’s RBI single. Gorman followed with a 423-foot blast to tie it at 3. Pozo added a go-ahead solo homer in the sixth.

Acuña, who pulled himself out of the home run derby in Atlanta next Tuesday, hit a 379-foot drive into the Braves’ bullpen in the first.

Ozuna clobbered a 422-foot solo shot in the second, and Alvarez made it 3-0 with a single for his first big-league RBI in nine career games.

Key moment After the St. Louis bullpen had retired seven in a row, Profar doubled to lead off the eighth and Acuña drew a one-out walk to set the table for Murphy’s 372-foot drive.

Key stat Murphy has seven home runs in his last 11 games. He had hit just two in his prior 33 games.

Up next RHP Sonny Gray (9-3, 3.51 ERA), whose last turn in the rotation was moved up a day to allow him to squeeze in an extra start before the All-Star break takes the mound Sunday for St. Louis. Atlanta had not announced a starter.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Winn grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Donovan struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Scott II grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Iglesias relieved Hernández
	9th Inning	Williams at shortstop.
	9th Inning	Olson grounded out to second.

Statistics

ATL		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
17	Ground Balls	9
6	Strikeouts	12
7	Runs Batted In	5
2	Sacrifice Hit	1
10	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	33
3	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
13	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
127	Pitches	166
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
20	Total Bases	14
38	Plate Appearances	38
486.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
4	Extra Base Hits	3
6.3	Runs Created	4.6
.294	Batting Average	.212
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.588	Slugging Percentage	.424
.353	Secondary Average	.364
.333	On Base Percentage	.297
.922	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.722
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
6.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.6
49.0	Batter Rating	38.0
11.3	At Bats Per Home Run	16.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.34	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.37
.294	Isolated Power	.212
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.053	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.105
.059	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.152
14.0	Runs Produced	11.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
96.5	MLB Rating	83.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0