{"id":68078,"date":"2025-07-12T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=68078"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:42:52","slug":"injury-fill-in-alvarez-scores-winning-run-and-braves-hit-3-hrs-to-edge-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=68078","title":{"rendered":"Injury fill-in Alvarez scores winning run and Braves hit 3 HRs to edge Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<span data-date=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Sean Murphy, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. and Marcell Ozuna homered and the Atlanta Braves rallied against St. Louis\u2019 two top relievers to beat the Cardinals 7-6 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Nacho Alvarez Jr., filling in for injured third baseman Austin Riley, singled twice and scored the winning run on Jurickson Profar\u2019s ninth-inning groundout against closer Ryan Helsley (3-1).<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, who hit the two longest home runs of this season at Busch Stadium on Friday night, put the Braves ahead 6-5 with a high drive that cleared the glove of Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn as he leaped at the left-field wall in the eighth. The three-run shot was Murphy\u2019s 16th homer of the season and the first allowed by reliever Phil Maton in 37 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis tied it when pinch-runner Garrett Hampson scored on a wild pitch by Daysbel Hern\u00e1ndez (4-1) in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Raisel Iglesias pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th save.<\/p>\n<p>Yohel Pozo and Nolan Gorman homered, and Brendan Donovan had two hits, including an RBI single in the eighth, for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis, which had been shut out in each of Erick Fedde\u2019s previous three starts, broke through with three runs against Atlanta opener Aaron Bummer in the second inning to draw even after early home runs Acu\u00f1a and Ozuna.<\/p>\n<p>Pozo led off the bottom of the second with a double into the left-field corner and scored on Thomas Saggese\u2019s RBI single. Gorman followed with a 423-foot blast to tie it at 3. Pozo added a go-ahead solo homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a, who pulled himself out of the home run derby in Atlanta next Tuesday, hit a 379-foot drive into the Braves\u2019 bullpen in the first.<\/p>\n<p>Ozuna clobbered a 422-foot solo shot in the second, and Alvarez made it 3-0 with a single for his first big-league RBI in nine career games.<\/p>\n<h2>Key moment<\/h2>\n<p>After the St. Louis bullpen had retired seven in a row, Profar doubled to lead off the eighth and Acu\u00f1a drew a one-out walk to set the table for Murphy\u2019s 372-foot drive.<\/p>\n<h2>Key stat<\/h2>\n<p>Murphy has seven home runs in his last 11 games. He had hit just two in his prior 33 games.<\/p>\n<h2>Up next<\/h2>\n<p>RHP Sonny Gray (9-3, 3.51 ERA), whose last turn in the rotation was moved up a day to allow him to squeeze in an extra start before the All-Star break takes the mound Sunday for St. Louis. Atlanta had not announced a starter.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Murphy, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. and Marcell Ozuna homered and the Atlanta Braves rallied against St. Louis\u2019 two top relievers to beat the Cardinals 7-6 on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":68079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[179,71,1231,69,2530,807,2360,2532,407,975,2533,2531,868,1116,548,44,80,2534,2529,570,2528,1632,581,61,263,50,501,72,2535,902],"class_list":["post-68078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-aaron-bummer","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-austin-riley","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-erick-fedde","tag-ga-state-wire","tag-garrett-hampson","tag-georgia","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-jos-fermn","tag-jurickson-profar","tag-marcell-ozuna","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-nacho-alvarez-jr","tag-nolan-gorman","tag-phil-maton","tag-raisel-iglesias","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-sean-murphy","tag-sonny-gray","tag-sports","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-thomas-saggese","tag-yohel-pozo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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