Braves Let Another One Slip Away

A night after the Braves bullpen shut down the red-hot Biscuits it collapsed Saturday night in Montgomery. Elliot Johnson launched a three-run homerun off of reliever Eric Schmitt with two outs in the bottom of the eighth to lift the Biscuits to a come-from-behind 7-5 win over the Mississippi Braves in front of 7,018 at Riverwalk Stadium..

Braves Starter Matt Wright (6.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 10 K, 2 HB) left with a 5-2 advantage on the scoreboard and was in line for his second win, before the bullpen fell apart in the last two innings. Both starters were forced to stay in the game through six innings because of depleted bullpens from the previous game.

The Braves start up a five-game homestand with West Tennessee Sunday night at 7:05pm. RHP Daniel Curtis (1-2, 5.40 ERA) takes the mound for Mississippi while the Diamond Jaxx counter with LHP JR Mathes (2-2, 4.65 ERA). The Braves On Deck Circle powered by Nextel starts off the broadcast at 6:05pm on SuperSport 930 (WSFZ-AM-930).

Check out the Braves Minute here. Don't forget if you're headed to Trustmark Park bring your radio and tune into AM-930 or 104.3 FM to listen to the broadcast.

BRAVES BITES:

* There are five Braves with current hitting streaks of three games or more.
* Streaks: Gregor Blanco, (6 games, 11-28, .393); Josh Burrus (5 games, 5-21, .238); Yunel Escobar (6 games, 10-26, .385); Martin Prado (6 games, 10-28, .357)
* The Braves are now 2-8 against Montgomery this year and 10-23 since they started play last season.
* The Braves have recorded 116 Ks against their opponents in their last 12 Games.
* The Braves dropped to 0-17 when trailing after 8 innings.
* There was a :43 minute rain delay to start the game

by
Bryan Eubank