Charlie Morton tossed an utter gem of a performance against the Phillies tonight, as his seven scoreless innings and multitude of strikeouts helped put the clamps on Atlanta’s divisional rivals. Jorge Soler’s two-run single in the third inning ended up being enough for the Braves to eke out a 2-1 victory over Philadelphia.
For most of this game, we got the pitcher’s duel that we were all expecting going into this one. There were a bunch of zeroes scattered around the scoreboard for most of this one. The biggest exception was the bottom of the third, which is when the Braves wasted no time getting a rally going.