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drove in the eventual game-winning run with a sacrifice fly as the Atlanta Braves beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 on Wednesday night.“That was a really good win for us,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. “All the guys we acquired were instrumental to making that happen. A lot of really good things happened tonight.”The win helped Atlanta post its first two-game winning streak since the All-Star break. The Braves have won eight of their last nine games at Busch Stadium.
With the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning, Vogt hit a fly to deep center, easily scoring, acquired in a recent trade with the Cubs, hit a line-drive double to right, plating two insurance runs. The Braves scored four unanswered runs to go up 4-3. Duvall hit his 23rd homer of the season off reliever“The count was 3-1. He’s thrown me four straight fastballs,” Duvall said. “I was looking for something up. He threw a slider up and that’s what we’ve been working on — to be able to handle that pitch and it worked out.”
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