Jair Jurrjens tossed 7 2/3 innings of shutout baseball as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Colorado Rockies 7-1 on Monday night. Jurrjens gave up eight hits and struckout seven Rockies as he improved his record to 7-3.
Will Ohman recorded the final out in the eighth inning and then Jeff Bennett was brought in but he had some troubles in the ninth inning. Two walks and a hit allowed the Rockies to score their one run in the game off of Bennett.
Chipper Jones stayed hot as he went 2-4 with two rbi in the game. Jeff Francoeur and Brandon Jones both had two rbi in the game as well. Mark Teixeira also contributed with an rbi of his own as the Braves had no problems scoring runs off the Rockies.
It was a good win for the Braves as they picked up a win on the road. They will try for another win on Tuesday against the Rockies.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I don’t know care if “Frank Wren” claims that he had to struggle with this decision to move Jeff to Double AA, I feel like the team did not stay with Frenchy. His numbers were not that bad and he is 4th on the team for RBI’s, Home Runs and average. His problem has been situational hitting which has been the problem for the whole team. In addition, they are not taking into consideration the huge defensive upper hand that he gave them. Very few teams ran on Jeff and he gunned many who did. I am very disappointed with the decision and will have a hard time not cheering for the Braves to lose every game until the all-star break because of it. Also, I understand that they claim that he will be back in a couple weeks after the all-star break but I don’t want success against a sub par team like Houston to color the decision to bring him back the majors.