The Braves put four runs on the scoreboard tonight, but they may be coming away from this one feeling as if they deserved another run on top of that. The Yankees scored five and that disputed run ended up being the difference in a 5-4 defeat for Atlanta.
It felt like things were going to be different tonight, as the Braves wasted no time in jumping on Andrew Heaney and the Yankees. Freddie Freeman extended the first inning with a two-out walk, and then Heaney made a mistake and hit Austin Riley to keep the inning going. That opened the door for Dansby Swanson to continue what’s been a magnificent second-half of the season for him, as he laced a double into the gap in left-center to plate both Freeman and Riley and put the Braves on the board first.