The man comes around – twice. On a Players’ Weekend where the Braves uniforms evoked the memory of Johnny Cash, Josh Donaldson led off the top of the 2nd with a home run, and repeated the feat in the 7th, leading the Braves to the series sweep. Here are the rest of Sunday afternoon’s goings down.
Dallas Keuchel was just as integral as Donaldson, throwing 7 scoreless innings, allowing 4 hits and 3 walks, and striking out 7. The Ring of Fire bullpen looks to be settling down again, although the flames went higher in the 9th when Mark Melancon allowed the run on a Pete Alonso double, a J.