Wednesday's Braves Report

Sanchez just a little bit off, Toronto takes advantage

          Anibal Sanchez struck out seven and walked four, but Toronto made the most of his slight mistakes for a 5-4 win.

          The Braves had to score two in the ninth to get within one of the Blue Jays, who stranded 13 runners to seven for Atlanta.

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From beat writers David O'Brien and Gabe Burns/Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mark Bowman/MLB.com on Twitter.

Anibal Sanchez is 0-2 with a 10.43 ERA in his past 3 starts against the #BlueJays going back to July 2016. He's 0-3 with a 9.31 ERA in three career starts in Toronto entering today's game./ DOB

Markakis will DH today.  This marks the first time  this season he hasn't started at one of the two corner OF spots.  Dating back to his neck surgery he has logged more outfield innings (4664.2) than any other MLB outfielder.  Kevin Pillar ranks second with 4645./MB

Shane Carle to start 6th for #Braves after Sanchez threw 97 pitches in 5 innings and allowed 5 hits, 4 runs and 4 walks with 7 K's. Blue Jays lead 4-2./DOB

Before becoming Acuna's primary replacement in left field on May 28, Culberson had logged a total of 182 innings as an outfielder.  177 of those innings were tallied in 2013 with Rockies./MB