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Atlanta Braves Drop Two at the Trop, Fall 9-6

By John Buhler

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The Atlanta Braves blow a 6-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning to fall 9-6 to the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday night.  Atlanta heads back to Turner Field after a brief sweep at the hand of the Rays to face the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Atlanta had a strong night offensively, scoring six runs on nine hits.  Pedro Ciriaco had a monster day at the plate, with two hits, four RBI’s and his first homer in over two years.  Ciriaco’s solo shot of Jake Odorizzi in the top of the fifth just kept going, a line drive home run into the sacred 162 Landing down the leftfield line.

-= Atlanta Braves Shutout by Rays 2-0 =-

Cameron Maybin and Joey Terdoslavich each had two hits tonight.  Terdoslavich scored two runs to go along with his RBI double off Odorizzi in the top of the second.

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    • The Atlanta Braves looked like they had this game in their control in Matt Wisler‘s start.  Then the bottom of the seventh inning happened and the rare lead the Braves held was lost.

    Wisler wasn’t great tonight in his five innings of work, but kept the Atlanta Braves in the game (5 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 5 K).  After David Aardsma retired his lone batter in the bottom of the sixth to put out the Rays fire, Matt Marksberry had a disastrous seventh inning.

    Marksberry allowed 5 runs, 3 earned, in his 0.2 innings of relief.  A miscue by Marksberry attempting to cover the first base bag on a toss from Joey Terdoslavich relinquished the Braves lead as Kevin Kiermaier‘s blazing speed allowed Brandon Guyer to score from third.  Tampa took a 7-6 lead and never looked back.

    The Atlanta Braves were in both games of this two game set with the Rays but were unable to take either road game.  A poorly placed change-up by Williams Perez cost the Braves last night and Marksberry’s ineffectiveness cost Atlanta tonight.

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    Atlanta hopes to sweep this brief series under the rug and get back to playing good baseball at home when the Arizona Diamondbacks come to town Friday.  The Atlanta Braves are arguably the worst road team since the All-Star Break, winning only twice away from the Ted in the second half.  Hopefully a rare second off day this week will allow the ball club to enter their series with the Snakes with a clear mind.

    Both Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher probably want to get home and away from playing American League teams as neither did much of anything at the plate against the Rays.  Atlanta has one more interleague series left on this year’s slate when the New York Yankees come to town later this month.  Tough loss tonight, guys.  Let’s rebound at home on Friday.  Go Braves!

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