3/6/18 3:45pm

Braves continue win streak behind Rio Ruiz’s 2 run homer as they defeat the Blue Jays 5-1

 

By. Andrew Rodberg

 

As the Braves are coming off a 3 game win streak, they left Orlando and headed to Dunedin, Fl to face the 3-7 Toronto Blue Jays. With a 1:05pm start time, the Braves sent Sean Newcomb to the mound to face Blue Jays’ Joe Biagini.

With a rather quiet 1^st inning for Newcomb and Biagini, the Braves attacked first in the 2^nd inning when Alex Jackson singled and made his way to 3^rd base after back to back wild pitches from Biagini. With Jaff Decker at the plate, he connected on a 2-0 pitch and flied out to center to give the Braves a 1-0 lead.

As the game continued, Newcomb began to pitch better and better but in the bottom of the 3^rd  he made a mistake when he left a ball in the strike-zone and Blue Jays’ Teoscar Hernandez hit a solo home-run to tie the game at 1-1.

In the 4^th, the Braves responded when Austin Riley “took one for the team” and Rio Ruiz followed it up with a 2 run home run over the right center wall to give the Braves the lead once more at 3-1.

To start the bottom of the 4^th, the Braves ended Newcomb’s day and called upon Arodys Vizcaino to work the 4^th. In doing so, Vizcaino finished with a clean inning and only gave up 1 hit. In the top of the 5^th, Braves’ Carlos Franco made himself known with a solo home run on a 1-0 count over the center field wall to give the Braves a 4-1 lead.

The scoring didn’t stop there…

In the top of the 6^th the long ball struck the Blue Jays once again when the Braves’ Austin Riley hit a home run to center field on a 3-2 count to extend the lead to 5-1. From innings, 7- 9, the scoring subsided and the time for the Blue Jays to come back dwindled. The Braves bullpen continued to shut down the Blue Jays batting order on their way to 4 straight wins.

Key Players:

Rio Ruiz: 1-4 2 RBI HR

Carlos Franco: 2-4 1 RBI HR

Sean Newcomb: 3 innings, 1hit, 2 SO, 1ER

Looking Ahead:

The Braves now have a day off tomorrow before a showdown with the reigning World Champs, Houston Astros in Orlando at 1:05pm

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