Atlanta Braves topple Cubs behind Fried and Demeritte

The Atlanta Braves welcomed the Chicago Cubs to Truist Area on Tuesday, for sport one among a three-game set.

It hasn’t been the begin to the 2022 season that almost all of us had been anticipating.  Getting into their sixth sequence of the younger season on Tuesday evening, the Atlanta Braves had been nonetheless on the lookout for their first sequence win.

This in itself isn’t precisely alarming information, however when you think about that the Braves have misplaced dwelling sequence to the Nationals and Marlins and opened the season by splitting 4 video games with the 3-13 (heading into play on Tuesday) Cincinnati Reds, that undoubtedly raises the trigger for concern.

The Braves turned to Max Fried on Tuesday to attempt to get the Cubs sequence off to a very good begin.  Fried was coming off a dominant begin towards the Dodgers during which he was good by 5 innings and tossed seven shutout innings towards a loaded Dodgers lineup.

The Cubs countered with Marcus Stroman, who was coming off of a tough outing final outing towards Tampa Bay.

And whereas Stroman put collectively a high quality begin towards the Braves, this sport belonged to Max Fried and the Atlanta Braves.

The Atlanta Braves beat the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday evening to enhance to 8-10.

The Braves bought the scoring began within the backside of the second.  After back-to-back singles by Ozuna and d’Arnaud to open the inning, Alex Dickerson and Adam Duvall contributed a pair of sac flies to maneuver Ozuna across the basepaths and provides the Braves a 1-0 lead after two.

Ian Happ tied the sport up within the prime of the third with a solo dwelling run and the sport would keep tangled up at one till the underside of the fifth.

That’s when, after being requested by a fan to hit a house run, Travis Demeritte would untie the competition as he went the opposite method and drove his first main league dwelling run since 2019 out to proper subject.

Demeritte and the fan celebrated the house run by sharing a excessive 5 on his method again to the dugout, which was a extremely cool second that almost definitely neither one among them will ever overlook.

Again-to-back singles from Swanson and Albies coupled with a Cubs’ error would tally one other run and the Braves had been within the driver’s seat up 3-1 heading into the sixth inning.

Fried labored a simple one-two-three prime of the sixth inning after which turned the sport over to the bullpen with a two-run lead.

Smith, Matzek, and Jansen did precisely what you’ll count on them to do, holding the Cubs scoreless within the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings, preserving a 3-1 Atlanta Braves win.

The tales of this sport had been Max Fried and Travis Demeritte.

Max Fried, whereas not as sharp as he was final week in Los Angeles, held the Cubs to 1 run over six innings, giving up simply 4 hits and never strolling a batter.

Travis Demeritte, if just for one evening, supplied the spark the Braves wanted within the outfield.

Because the Braves face the prospect of life with out Eddie Rosario for the foreseeable future coupled with ready for the return of Ronald Acuna, Jr., Demeritte stepped up each with the bat and glove, hitting the aforementioned dwelling run and making a sliding inning-ending catch within the fourth.

The Braves and Cubs will lock horns in sport two of the sequence tomorrow evening because the Braves look to win their first sequence of the season with a victory tomorrow.

The Cubs will ship Mark Leiter, Jr. to the hill whereas the Braves will counter with Charlie Morton, with first pitch scheduled for 7:20 pm EST.