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Braves fall to Phillies in Contentious manner

The saw their four-game series of wins reach a conclusion in a controversial 7-6 misfortune to the Philadelphia Phillies.

Ronald Acuña Jr. has been the impetus for the Braves during their homestand and that proceeded on Sunday when he started the game by demolishing a standard grounder to shortstop Didi Gregorius. Statcast followed Acuña at 31.0 ft/sec which is a ridiculous number. Ozzie Albies at that point made the Phillies pay by dispatching his first grand slam of the period to give the Braves a mid 2-0 lead.

Drew Smyly dealt with the Phillies in the first yet J.T. Realmuto welcomed him with a twofold to begin the second. Realmuto at that point took third base and returned home on a long fielder’s choice by Jean Segura that upheld Cristian Pache to the middle field divider to make it 3-1.

After a scoreless third, Smyly ran into some difficulty. Rhys Hoskins struggled through a nine-pitch at-bat and drove a solo homer to left center to slice the lead to 3-2. Smyly at that point struck out Bryce Harper and got Realmuto to ground out before Alec Bohm and Jean Segura recorded consecutive singles. That would carry Gregorius to the plate and he remained back on a hanging 1-2 breaking ball and drove it out to appropriate for a three-run grand slam to place Philadelphia in front 5-3.

Atlanta got a run, harking back to the fourth when Cristian Pache snapped a 1-for-21 stretch with a contrary field twofold. Pache moved over to third on a hit by Smyly and afterward scored on a fielder’s choice by Acuña.

Smyly worked an ideal fifth and afterward Freddie Freeman struck again dispatching his fourth home run of the season and his third of the arrangement to tie the game.

Smyly would offer approach to Nate Jones in the 6th. He would exit subsequent to permitting five hits, five runs including two homers more than five innings. He struck out three and didn’t walk anybody.

Jones’ exposing didn’t get off to an extraordinary beginning as Harper lined a solo homer to left center to put the Phillies to front 6-5. He would recuperate and resign the following three hitters to end the inning.

The Phillies would go to their warm up area in the 6th as Moore was supplanted by Connor Brogdon. Moore permitted nine hits and five rushes to oblige five strikeouts over his five innings of work.

Josh Tomlin tossed a scoreless seventh and afterward Acuña tied the game with another long solo homer to center off of Phillies reliever Sam Coonrod.

Controversy struck in the 9th as Will Smith took over on the hill for Atlanta and permitted a leadoff twofold to Alec Bohm. Bohm at that point moved over to third on a ground out by Jean Segura. Gregorius at that point lifted a fly to Marcell Ozuna in shallow left field. Bohm labeled and was administered protected at the plate. Regardless of replay showing that Bohm never contacted home plate, the play was maintained and the Phillies took a 7-6 lead.

Hector Neris sat the Braves down all together in the 10th to snap Atlanta’s four-game series of wins.

Acuña went 3-for-4 at the plate with his fourth grand slam of the period. Swanson completed the game with two hits while Freeman broadened his back to back games with a homer streak to three straight. The Braves drop to 4-5 on the season. They will proceed their homestand on Monday when they start a four-game series against the Miami Marlins.