Saturday's Braves Report (final edition): Touki time is coming; bullpen in wait mode; Chipper fired up; and more
Teheran on point, Braves not so much
Julio Teheran did his part, but it wasn’t enough in Atlanta’s 4-2 home loss to Milwaukee.
He gave up two hits in six innings, but threw 90 pitches. Four relievers followed, Jesse Biddle giving up three runs on two hits in a third of an inning. The rest of the pen was pretty good.
The Brewers won it with three in the eighth, starting with an error from Biddle.
Ozzie Albies had two of Atlanta’s seven hits.
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Sunday, 1:35 p.m., vs. Milwaukee, FSSO
Monday, 1:35 p.m./7:35 p.m., vs. Miami, MLB, then FSSE
Tuesday, 7:35 p.m., vs. Miami, FSSE
Wednesday, 7:35 p.m., vs. Miami, FSSE
From beat writers Gabe Burns/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mark Bowman/MLB.com, and David O’Brien/The Athletic on Twitter (and others when notable)
Touki Toussaint is lined up to start one of doubleheader games Monday, Snitker confirmed. Not official yet./GB
Of the six NL players with at least 30 doubles this season, half of them are #Braves: Markakis (league-high 35), Albies (33), Freeman (30). Markakis has 466 doubles since debuting in 2006, behind only Robinson Cano (488) in that span./DOB
Sam Freeman is throwing and getting closer to return, Snit said. I am sure you're thrilled./GB
Acuna's second leadoff homer was his 14th homer of the season and seventh in 76 at-bats since moving to the leadoff spot on July 20./MB
Teheran walked the leadoff hitter in 1st inning of 5 of his past 9 starts including each of the last 3./DOB
Freeman extends hit streak to 13 games with a fourth-inning leadoff double off leaping 1B Thames' glove/DOB