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Left fielder Charlie Culberson supplied the only run with a solo homer and left-hander Sean Newcomb picked up his eighth victory as the Atlanta Braves blanked the visiting San Diego Padres 1-0 on Saturday at SunTrust Park. Culberson hit his third home run of the season on a long fly to left-center field on a 1-0 pitch off San Diego starter Jordan Lyles (2-4) in the fifth inning. Each of Culberson's three homers have provided the winning margin for Atlanta, the previous two coming in the team's last at-bat. Continue to Article

June 16, 2018 8:36:pm EST

Instead, the Atlanta slugger just picked right back up where left off — extending his latest streak to seven games with a pair of hits in a win over the New York Mets on Wednesday. The first baseman has now hit safely in 23 of his last 24 games entering a home series with the San Diego Padres, including homering in his last three games. Justin Verlander matched his season high when he allowed three earned runs in his last start, a 7-3 win for the Houston Astros over Texas last week. Continue to Article

June 14, 2018 2:17:am EST

No-hitter or not, Mike Soroka knew the Braves would be cautious and not let him overexert his right shoulder. Soroka did not allow a hit until the seventh inning, Freddie Freeman homered and drove in both runs, and the Atlanta Braves beat the struggling New York Mets 2-0 on Wednesday. Soroka, the youngest pitcher in the major leagues and one of baseball's top prospects, returned from a shoulder strain that sidelined him since May 17 to outpitch NL ERA leader Jacob deGrom in a game that lasted only 2 hours, 12 minutes. Continue to Article

June 13, 2018 4:31:pm EST

No-hitter or not, Mike Soroka knew the Braves would be cautious and not let him overexert his right shoulder. Soroka did not allow a hit until the seventh inning, Freddie Freeman homered and drove in both runs, and the Atlanta Braves beat the struggling New York Mets 2-0 on Wednesday. Soroka, the youngest pitcher in the major leagues and one of baseball's top prospects, returned from a shoulder strain that sidelined him since May 17 to outpitch NL ERA leader Jacob deGrom in a game that lasted only 2 hours, 12 minutes. Continue to Article

June 13, 2018 4:30:pm EST

It’s becoming a familiar story: Jacob deGrom pitches magnificently yet the Mets still lose. Apart from a couple of walks on top of that, the Mets were as listless it comes at the plate on the afternoon. It’s likewise hard to find comparable examples of a starting pitcher getting absolutely no help from his teammates, but here’s one little fact that got spit out of the Twitter machine: deGrom is the first pitcher since Randy Johnson in 1999 to make five straight starts of seven innings pitched or more and allow two or fewer earned runs whose team has lost each of those games. Continue to Article

June 13, 2018 2:50:pm EST