Sean Newcomb had a suboptimal first inning tonight walking the leadoff man, hitting the next batter Field, walking the next man to load the bases. Kennys Vargas hit a three-run triple off the top of the wall in dead center and was promptly knocked in by the next batter Palka. He induced three straight ground outs to end the awful first and only gave up one run, one walk and five strikeouts. David Peterson pitched two scoreless with three strikeouts and the game went into a rain delay in the bottom of the 7th.
Ozzie Albies singled in the 3rd inning to stretch his hitting streak to 11 games and is hitting .