The Braves beat the Rockies last night 4-1. Derek Lowe had a great game only giving up 1 run in 6 innings. Eric O'Flaherty pitched an important 2/3 of an inning, striking out the tying run in the 8th. Garrett Anderson and Diory Hernandez each had a double and 2 RBI. The teams play tonight at 8pm on MLB Network. Jair Jurrjens will pitch for the Braves.
The big news out of ATL is that the Braves have traded Jeff Francoeur to the Mets for Ryan Church. Church will play right field for the Braves. Ryan is struggling a little this season after posting 4 straight above-average seasons with Washington and New York. Francoeur has only had one above average season in the last four, plus the fan base was getting down on him, so it was a good time to go for Jeff. So, now our outfield consists of Garrett Anderson (free agent from Anaheim), Nate McLouth (2009 trade with Pitt), and Ryan Church (2009 trade with New York). If Tim Hudson can get healthy for the last two months of the season, we could make a run at the playoffs in 2009.
In little league ball, the Brownsburg 12s finished pool play as the #2 overall seed. They beat Eagle Creek 7-3 on Friday night. The Dogs received a bye and will play on Sunday at 3pm. Plainfield got the #1 seed by only giving up 1 run in the 4 pool play games. The BBurg 10-11s lost to WDT on Thursday and beat Ben Davis on Friday. They continue loser's bracket play against Zionsville on Saturday. The Dogs need to win 4 games in a row to win the tournament.
Lance Lynn will pitch tonight for the AA Springfield Cardinals at 8pm EST. Drew Storen threw two innings of scoreless relief for the Class A Hagerstown Suns last night. In his last 9 innings of work, Storen has given up 3 runs on 5 hits, but has zero walks and has struck out 13 batters. I think he is settling in nicely at this level and may be promoted before the end of the season.
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