ATLANTAÂ – Max Fried allowed no hits in 5 scoreless innings, Marcell Ozuna homered and the Atlanta Braves received their fifth straight, 7-1 over the Miami Marlins, in a rain-delayed recreation on Sunday.
The defending World Series champion Braves have taken 5 in a row and 20 of 25 to transfer a season-high 33 video games over .500. They are inside one recreation of first place within the NL East after the New York Mets misplaced their second straight to Washington.
Atlanta is 61-24 since June 1, finest within the majors over that span.
“That was a pretty good homestand,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker mentioned. “Our starting pitching was real good, our bullpen was real good, and it’s what we need to do. We’re down to under 30 (games left in the regular season). We need to keep rolling.”
Fried (13-5) did not enable a baserunner, retiring 12 in a row, till Nick Fortes walked to start the fifth. Fortes was erased as a double play ended the inning earlier than a rain delay of 1 hour, 51 minutes.
“I knew that rain was in the forecast,” Fried mentioned. “I wish it would’ve held off a little bit longer, but I’m not looking too much into it. I’m just glad I was able to get through five and get a win. This time of year it’s all about winning baseball games.
“If I’m going on the market and we win the sport, I’m doing my job.”
Fried did not return after the delay. Had play not resumed, he nonetheless would not have been credited with a no-hitter as a result of he did not pitch 9 innings. The first-time All-Star struck out six and walked one, throwing 37 of 66 pitches for strikes.
Miami, which managed three hits, has dropped a season-high seven in row and has been held to two runs or fewer in eight straight.
The Marlins bought their first hit when Miguel Rojas lined a clear single off Jesse Chavez with two outs within the sixth and scored their lone run, trimming the lead to 4-1, off Collin McHugh within the eighth on Joey Wendle’s single. McHugh’s wild pitch superior runners to second and third earlier than Charles LeBlanc struck out to finish the menace.
“We just had trouble getting anything going,” Marlins supervisor Don Mattingly mentioned. “You’re getting a top of the line guy in Fried and dealing with a lineup that’s younger and trying to find their way in the big leagues, so you know it’s going to be a battle.”
Ozuna hit his twenty first homer, an opposite-field solo shot to right-center, to make it 2-0 within the fourth.
The Braves tacked on two runs within the sixth when Matt Olson walked, superior to third on a single by Travis d’Arnaud and a fielding error by proper fielder Brian Anderson and scored on Michael Harris II’s single. D’Arnaud scored on a wild pitch by Jeff Brigham.
In the eighth, Harris added an RBI single off Andrew Nardi and Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a two-run single off Cole Susler to make it 7-1.
Pablo López (8-9) erased two runners in scoring place within the second when Ozuna grounded out sharply, however he was much less lucky within the third. Eddie Rosario led off with a single, superior to third on Acuña’s ground-rule double and scored on Dansby Swanson’s sacrifice fly.
López allowed two runs and 5 hits with one stroll and 7 strikeouts in 4 innings.
“I really wanted to keep going,” Lopez mentioned of the rain delay. “I was really looking forward to that, but that’s way out of my control, so it is what it is.”
Since changing into a full-time starter in 2019, Fried has 51 wins, second-most within the majors to the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole (53). Fried improved to 3-2 with a 1.66 ERA over his final six begins. His profession ERA in opposition to Miami is 4.94, however the Braves are 9-3 in his begins.
The Braves are 37-17 in opposition to Miami at Truist Park and 90-49 general in opposition to the Marlins since 2015.