Spencer Strider became the major leagues' first 15-game winner, pitching three-hit ball over seven inning in leading the the Atlanta Braves over the slumping San Francisco Giants 5-1 on Friday night.
Michael Harris II had three hits and drove in three runs, helping the major league-best Braves to their eighth win in 10 games.
Seven days after beating San Francisco with one-hit ball over seven innings, Strider was dominant again while out-dueling Logan Webb in a match-up of NL Cy Young Award contenders. Strider struck out nine to increase his big league-high total to 236. He extended a shutout streak to 20 innings before Joc Pederson tripled in the seventh and scored on J.D. Davis’ groundout.
Harris hit his 12th homer of the season in the first and had a two-run single in the sixth. Matt Olson doubled in a run in the fourth and added a sacrifice fly off Alex Wood in the sixth.Braves All-Star RG Ronald Acuña Jr. ran deep into Triples Alley in the third inning and made a one-handed grab of Thairo Estrada’s fly to stranded two runners.
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