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Atlanta Braves 1 Milwaukee Brewers 4
Status: Final
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Braves 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1
Brewers 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 - 4 8 0
B4 MIL 1- 4 Pratt hit sacrifice fly to left, Ortiz scored,
Lara to second.
B3 MIL 1- 3 Bauers homered to center (413 feet), Contreras
scored.
B3 MIL 1- 1 Contreras singled to left, Pratt scored.
T1 ATL 1- 0 Harris II doubled to left, Baldwin scored,
Olson to third.
Jake Bauers homers and Logan Henderson delivers in Brewers' 4-1 victory over Braves
MILWAUKEE -- Jake Bauers capped a marathon plate appearance with a tiebreaking two-run homer , Logan Henderson pitched six strong innings and the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-1 on Saturday.
The Brewers have won six of their last seven games. Atlanta has lost five of six and seven of nine.
Henderson (8-2) continued his impressive rookie season by striking out four while allowing one run, five hits and two walks. He hasnt allowed more than three runs in any of his 18 career starts.
Atlanta brought the tying run to the plate after Aaron Ashby allowed consecutive singles to Ozzie Albies and Mauricio Dubon to start the ninth. Ashby then retired Lane Thomas on a fly to left and got a double-play grounder from Austin Riley to earn his second save.
Trevor Megill , the Brewers' usual closer, was unavailable after pitching the last two days.
Milwaukee took the lead for good by scoring three unearned runs in the third.
The Brewers got the leadoff batter on when Atlanta pitcher Martin Perez (8-8) mishandled a dribbler from Cooper Pratt , who beat the throw to first.
Two outs later, Pratt scored from third when William Contreras singled to left for Milwaukee's first hit. Contreras went 2 for 4 on Saturday and is 6 of 8 in this series.
Bauers then fouled off seven straight pitches before finishing a 12-pitch plate appearance with a 413-foot blast to center.
Joey Ortiz doubled and scored in the fourth to make it 4-1.
Perez threw 97 pitches but lasted just four innings as Milwaukees hitters continually worked counts deep.
Atlanta took a 1-0 lead in the first when Michael Harris II doubled home Drake Baldwin .
Harris double put runners on third and second with one out, but the Braves couldnt bring either home. Atlanta went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position.
The Braves and Brewers face off in the Little League Classic on Sunday at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Tyler Mahle (4-10, 4.53 ERA) pitches for Atlanta and Shane Drohan (6-4, 3.86) starts for Milwaukee.
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