The trials and tribulations of the Braves offense continued on Friday night as they only scored one run on a Omar Infante RBI ground out. However, Jair Jurrjens threw 8 innings of shutout ball and Rafael Soriano pitched a perfect 9th for his 23rd save of the season. Yunel Escobar and Adam LaRoche each had two hits. Game two of the series is today at 4pm on FOX. Tim Hudson will pitch for the Braves.
Atlanta is 8 games behind the Phillies in the NL East and 8.5 games behind the Rockies in the wild card race with 21 games left in the season.
Atlanta's Jason Heyward was named Baseball America's Minor League Player of the Year. Heyward batted .303 with 17 homers in 99 games during stints in A, AA, and AAA. His OPS was .963....and he is only 19 years old!!! The last time a Brave was named Minor League Player of the Year was Andruw Jones in 1995 and 1996. Andruw turned out to be a good MLB player (388 HR, 1173 RBI, 5 All-Star, 10 gold gloves) so we can only hope that Jason Heyward can do more of the same.
The Arizona Fall League starts on October 13th. Lance Lynn and Drew Storen will be competing this year along with Stephen Strasburg and the aforementioned Jason Heyward. Last year's AFL MVP was current Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson.
The Ball State Cardinal football team hosts New Hampshire tonight at 700p. Ball State is coming off of a tough loss to a much-improved North Texas team. New Hampshire is ranked 9th in Division 1-A and is 1-0 on the season.
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