Ozzie Albies’ double to the right center gap in the bottom of the eleventh inning off of reliever Michael Feliz was a walk off game winner, giving the Braves an improbable but seemingly inevitable 8-7 victory.
The game started five and a half hours earlier as a match of two young pitching phenoms. The Pirates’ Mitch Keller had been knocked around in the first inning of his only previous major league appearance but upon returning to the minors was as dominant as he’d ever been. The Braves’ Mike Soroka had only lost once in ten starts and had the second best ERA in the majors while having allowed only one home run.