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Atlanta Braves Add Outfield Bat Ahead of Series with Philadelphia Phillies
The Atlanta Braves announced they’re calling up outfielder Eli White, highlighting a series of roster moves ahead of their series with the Philadelphia Phillies.
In coinciding moves, they have optioned outfielder Forrest Wall to Triple-A and moved lefty Ray Kerr to the 60-day injured list.
The #Braves today selected OF Eli White to the major league roster and optioned OF Forrest Wall to Triple-A Gwinnett. To make room on the 40-man roster, Atlanta transferred LHP Ray Kerr to the 60-day injured list. Additionally, INF Brian Anderson tonight begins a rehabilitation…
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 5, 2024
With the way the Braves offense has been struggling, they’re ready to try something new.
In 53 games with the Gwinnett Stripers, White has batted .289 with a .864 OPS, seven home runs and 28 RBIs.
White is coming off a big-time performance on July 3, when he had a six-hit game with two home runs and seven RBIs against the St. Paul Saints, accounting for one-third of the offensive showing in a 21-6 routing.
White has previously played 136 MLB games, including six with the Braves win 2023. In that small sample size with the Braves, he tallied one hit in 14 at-bats (.071) and reached base two other times via the walk.
He’s earned another shot with the recent production in Gwinnett, and perhaps he could end up being a missing piece to the Braves offensive puzzle.
Wall heads back to Triple-A after a mediocre showing in 13 games for the Braves. He batted .241 with an OPS+ of 60 with zero extra-base hits.
Anderson Begins Rehab Assignment
The Braves also announced that infielder Brian Anderson will begin his rehab assignment Friday night in Triple-A.
Anderson has been out with a bacterial infection since late June. He spent the bulk of this season with the Mariners’ Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers before being released and signing with the Braves on June 4.
Anderson has had five at-bats with the Braves this season, going hitless.
The once-promising infielder for the Marlins, who finished fourth in NL Rookie of the Year voting in 2018, has struggled with injuries and at the plate when healthy the last two seasons.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Keaton Wallace had a career-high 27 points and the short-handed Atlanta Hawks beat the Chicago Bulls 110-94 on Wednesday night.
Wallace nearly doubled his previous high of 14. He made four 3-pointers and had six assists.
Daeqwon Plowden scored 19 points in his NBA debut after being called up from the G League’s College Park Skyhawks.
Dyson Daniels scored 18 points, and Onyeka Okongwu added 14 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists to help the Hawks win for the third time in four games even though Trae Young sat out due to a bruised right rib. The three-time All-Star was hurt against Phoenix on Tuesday night when he scored a season-high 43 points in a 122-117 win.
Coby White scored 16 points for Chicago. Zach LaVine had 15, and Nikola Vucevic added 14 points and 16 rebounds.
Takeaways
Hawks: Young, averaging 23.1 points and a league-leading 11.9 assists, was part of a lengthy list of sidelined Hawks. It included Jalen Johnson (right shoulder inflammation), De’Andre Hunter (left foot soreness), Larry Nance Jr. (right hand) and rookie Zaccharie Risacher (left adductor irritation).
Bulls: The Bulls simply couldn’t find much of a rhythm and lost for the fourth time in five games.
Key moment
Wallace scored 18 in the first half as the Hawks built a 61-47 lead.
The 6-foot-3 guard had eight points in a 15-0 run early in the second quarter that gave Atlanta a 42-27 lead. The Bulls got within four late in the half before the Hawks scored 13 straight, capped by Okongwu’s alley-oop dunk to make it 59-42 with 1:30 left. Okongwu also put back Bogdan Bogdanovic’s missed 3 in the closing seconds to send Atlanta to the locker room up by 14.
The Bulls went on a 12-2 run in the third to pull within 72-67 with about five minutes left in the quarter. The Hawks led by eight going into the fourth and remained in control from there.
Key stat
Both teams struggled from 3-point range, with the Hawks making 13 of 43 and the Bulls going 6 for 27.
Up next
The Hawks visit Boston on Saturday night, and the Bulls host Charlotte on Friday night.
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