Harris became the club's second player to nail six hits in a game, going 6-for-6 with two triples and six RBIs to aid the Braves in a 14-6 rout of the reigning World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals.
The lefty outfielder had an RBI single in the second, a two-run triple in the third and a bases-loaded triple in the fourth. Through four impressive innings, Harris claimed four of the Braves' 17 hits.
Chipper Jones went 3-for-4 and hit his 16th homer and four RBIs for the Braves, who won for the ninth time in 15 games and set a single-game franchise record with a crowd of 53,953 at The Ted.
With this victory, the Braves are just 2.5 games behind the NL East-leading New York Mets.
Buddy Carlyle (5-2, 4.05 ERA) allowed three runs on seven hits with one walk and two strikeouts over six innings. The righty gave up Chris Duncan's 19th homer in the fourth, which cut the lead to 7-3, but the Braves scored seven runs in the home half of the inning to erase the threat.
Cardinals starter Braden Looper allowed 10 hits, seven runs and one walk in 3.2 innings, raising his ERA an alarming 49 points. Reliever Troy Cate sucked it up as well, giving up four runs on four hits with three walks in just 1/3 of an inning.
Then, just when Tony La Russa thought it couldn't get any worse, comebacker Troy Percival relieved Cate and surrendered three hits and three runs in two innings.
St. Louis scored three runs off Braves reliever Wilfredo Ledezma on an error by Chris Woodward at third, an RBI single by Skip Schumaker and Duncan's run-scoring groundout.
*Fun fact: In 1970, Felix Millan was the last Braves player with a six-hit game - the seventh to reach the mark.
3 comments:
Troy Percival: comebacker or major liability? It's not like this Cardinals team needs any more of those.
Bring your broom today!
Here come da Braves!!
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