Braves Homer Their Way Past Lookouts

The Braves used homeruns from Luis Hernandez and Michael Rosamond to take a 2-1 series advantage over the Southern League leading Chattanooga Lookouts. The Braves dominated the game from the first pitch as starter Chris Waters (3-3, 3.75 ERA) limited the Lookouts to just three hits through 6 innings. He struggled in the seventh allowing a bases loaded walk to Anderson Machado that knocked him out of the game. Bryan Digby came in and induced an inning-ending double play on one pitch that got the Braves out of the jam. Newly promoted Brave, Arthur Santos pitched a perfect ninth for his first save as a Mississippi Brave in front of 2,639 at Bellsouth Park.

The Lookouts wasted another great day at the plate by Noochie Varner as he went 3-4 with a Homerun and three runs scored. Lookouts starter Steve Kelly (6-3, 3.13 ERA) was touched for both homeruns before exiting after the sixth.

The Braves are in Chattanooga to play game four of the five-game set against the Lookouts Wednesday night at 6:15 CT. The Braves will send RHP Paul Bush (3-3, 3.86 ERA) to the hill in search of his team-high fourth win of '06 while Chattanooga counters with LHP Phil Dumatrait (3-3, 3.27 ERA). The Braves On Deck Circle powered by Nextel starts off the broadcast at 5:15pm (CT) on SuperSport 930. If you're headed to Chattanooga don't forget to bring your radios and tune into 107.1 FM exclusively at Bellsouth Park.

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BRAVES BITES:

* Barbaro Canizares extended his hit streak to 7 games…(11-29, .379)
* Luis Hernandez extended his hit streak to two games… (4-9, .444)
* Matt Esquivel extended his hit streak to two games… (4-9, .444)
* Gregor Blanco extended his hit streak to 3 games… (5-12, .417)
* Yunel Escobar ended an 0-9 skid with a third inning single.
* The Braves improved to 10-9 when hitting a homerun.
* Four Braves finished with at least 2-hits.
* The Braves improved to 12-8 when scoring first.
* The Braves improved to 17-11 when scoring 4 or more runs.
* Josh Burrus was scratched from the lineup prior to gametime.

by
Bryan Eubank