ATLANTA — James Shields was unbeaten. Still is. He had another goose-egg cooking, too, with a 5-0 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning at Turner Field.
But even the perfect pitcher knows how fast things can from zero to oh-oh.
Great as Shields has been (24-5) on the road since the start of 2013, the Atlanta Braves rather quickly erased the right-hander's entire lead in one inning, then won the game 6-5 on the strength of pinch-hitter Joey Terdoslavich's loud solo home run off Joaquin Benoit in the eighth.
Shields (7-0) was fairly coasting until that sixth, whereupon the Braves tied the game on four hits and Cory Spangenberg's error.