Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies Series Recap

The Braves connected their billow adjoin the postseason, walking into Philadelphia and throwing a monkey bend into the Phillies' crumbling playoff hopes by demography two of the three amateur in the weekend series. They accustomed alarming casting performances from Mike Minor and Tim Hudson, who accumulated to acquiesce just 5 absolute hits and three runs. With the losses, the Phillies alone 5 amateur abaft the additional Wild Card atom with four teams amid them. Atlanta's wins confused them to 23 amateur over .500; they kept their six-game advance aloft the Wild Card and confused to aural 4.5 amateur of Washington in the NL East with nine amateur actual in the season.

While Minor and Hudson had assertive performances, the aforementioned cannot be said of Tommy Hanson. He struggled yet afresh on Friday, confined up three home runs in a 6-2 accident and accustomed as abundant in his postgame comments, comparing his airing to equine clay and acceptance he hasn't pulled his weight recently. He is 0-4 with a 5.04 ERA in his seven starts back his DL stint, and has completed six innings alone already (August 17) in his endure 11 starts.

Minor surrendered Ryan Howard's 300th career home run in Saturday's win, giving him 42 in his career adjoin the Braves.

Michael Bourn awash his larboard deride sliding into additional abject in Saturday's game. He had four hits in his endure 11 at-bats and accomplished abject four times in Atlanta's 8-2 win, conceivably assuming signs of busting his additional bisected slump. Bourn was out of Sunday's bold and won't play until Tuesday at the earliest.