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Atlanta Braves Shut Out for the 15th Time This Year

By John Buhler

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The Atlanta Braves fall to the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 on Thursday night at Turner Field. This was the 15th time the Atlanta Braves were shut out in 2015.

Our Atlanta Braves continue their losing ways, dropping the last two games of their interleague series at home against the AL East leading Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 Thursday night. The powerful bats of Canada’s team launched three home runs of Atlanta Braves pitchers in the series finale.

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Matt Wisler surrendered two long balls in the top of the fourth inning, one a mammoth solo shot to 1B Edwin Encarnacion, the other a three-run blast to 2B Cliff Pennington. Wisler has now gone winless in his last 9 starts for the Atlanta Braves, moving to 5-8 on the year.

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Wisler went 6 innings, allowing 4 hits, walking 2 while striking out 3. He was able to get out of few early inning jams, but you can’t throw the ball up in the zone to the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays offense. They might have the most potent lineup since the 1995 Cleveland Indians. The two homers off Wisler were no-doubters.

Edwin Jackson came in and pitched two scoreless innings of relief tonight, walking one and striking out a batter. Sugar Ray Marimon surrendered a frustration-laced homer to likely AL MVP Blue Jays 3B Josh Donaldson. Donaldson did not have a good series in Atlanta, but crushed Marimon’s offering deep into the rightfield bleachers. For a right-handed hitter, that ball carried similar to how it did for prime Miguel Cabrera.

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    • Offensively, the Atlanta Braves were only able to muster three base hits tonight against Blue Jays starter Marco Estrada. Atlanta looked off-balance all night at the plate in Estrada’s gem. Perhaps he will find a spot in the Blue Jays playoff rotation.

    Cameron Maybin, Andrelton Simmons, and Matt Wisler were the only three Braves with base knocks tonight. You know it’s a bad night at the plate for your club when two of the three guys to get base hits in the ball are your pitcher and a player recovering from an eye injury. Those two clearly saw the baseball better than did the heart of the Atlanta Braves’ batting order.

    Atlanta’s luck could change this weekend when NL East rival, the Philadelphia Phillies come to town in a battle of NL East cellar dwellers. While I don’t think a sweep is likely for either team, it’s a Donnybrook of fourth place supremacy in the worst division in baseball. Go Braves!

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