Brandon Marsh's tie-breaking pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the eighth inning lifted the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday night.
The win pushed the Phillies' lead in the National League East to seven games over the Braves, with five games remaining between the two teams in the regular season.had his best outing in four starts since his stint on the injured list coming out of the All-Star break. He gave up two runs on four hits in seven innings, striking out four. Joe Jiménez took the loss.Arcia's home run in the fourth inning opened the scoring.
The Phillies tied the score with two in the sixth inning after Fried faced the minimum 15 batters in the first five innings.followed with a double over the head of Kelenic in left field. Schwarber knocked the first run in with a groundout to short, and Turner plated Rojas with a sacrifice fly. The injury-riddled Braves have started the last two games with three players who have been released by teams this season —The Braves will start rookie RHP Spencer Schwellenbach against Phillies LHP Cristopher Sánchez in the series finale Thursday.
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