Davey Martinez’s club had a 5-0 lead after two and a 6-4 lead after five last night, but Will Harris gave up a game-tying two-run home run by Freddie Freeman in the top of the 7th, and Dansby Swanson hit a solo shot off Tanner Rainey in the 8th to put the Atlanta Braves up for good in the series opener in Washington, D.C.’s Nationals Park.
“That’s a tough one,” Martinez said in his post game Zoom call. “Tough loss. We had the right guys in there, we had our guys in there 7-8-9, we just couldn’t get it done tonight.