In a game featuring blown saves by closers facing their former teams, the Dodgers rally to defeat the Atlanta Braves 5-3 in a potential playoff preview.
was scratched because of neck stiffness — hit a floater that just grazed the top of Matt Olson’s glove at first base, falling safely in shallow right field to score both runs.
“[I had] no clue,” Thompson said of the hit, which he initially thought had been fouled off, looking around above him as the ball drifted the other way. “Was just trying to go up there and compete. Happy it dropped for sure.” “Getting booed at Truist Park, I didn’t see that one coming at all in my life,” said Freeman, who went four for 12 in the series.
Kimbrel, another former Braves star, couldn’t protect the lead. Two pitches into the bottom of the 10th, Olson lined a base hit to center that knotted the score again. William Contreras came close to walking it off later in the inning but watched a deep fly ball to center die at the warning track for the final out.Freddie Freeman, a longtime Brave who helped that team win last year’s World Series, had a tearful but happy day in Atlanta with the Dodgers, who won 4-1.
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