Live blog: Tigers chasing playoffs, Braves say goodbye
As if the Tigers expected anything different, the Braves acted early Sunday as if they were the team playing frantically for a playoff spot as they tore into the Tigers for a 1-0 lead in the first.
A leadoff single by Ender Inciarte, a follow-up single to right from Adonis Garcia, and Freddie Freeman's sacrifice fly to center was good for a quick run that put the Tigers in a hole as the Braves cranked up the crowd in Turner Field's baseball finale.
The Tigers were vaporized in the first by Braves starter Julio Teheran, who threw his flaming fastball-slider combo past the first three hitters for strikeouts.