St. Louis Cardinals at Atlanta Braves

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St. Louis Cardinals

44-38, 21-17 Away

Final
5 - 3

Atlanta Braves

49-34, 24-15 Home

Church and Velázquez homer, helping Cardinals beat free-falling Braves 5-3

St. Louis Cardinals vs. Atlanta Braves: Game Highlights

Velázquez started a four-run fourth inning with his third homer of the year — a 444-foot shot to center field that tied the game at 1. Church followed later in the inning with his sixth homer of the season, a three-run shot, to increase the lead to 4-1.

Liberatore (4-5) struck out nine and allowed one run on one hit. Coming into the game, Liberatore had a 10.34 ERA in the month of June. Riley O’Brien pitched a scoreless ninth inning and earned his 21st save of the season.

Jordan capped the scoring for St. Louis with a sacrifice fly to right field that scored Masyn Winn in the top of the sixth.

Martín Pérez (6-5) allowed four runs and five hits in five innings for Atlanta.

Ozzie Albies, who leads the Braves in RBI this month with 17, drove in two runs. He had a sacrifice fly in the third and an RBI single in the seventh. Despite loading the bases in the eighth, Mauricio Dubón was the only Braves player to score, doing so on a wild pitch.

Drake Baldwin snapped an 0-for-36 slump with a single in the seventh. Atlanta went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position and left 10 on base against the Cardinals.

The Braves (49-34) have lost 13 of their last 17 and have a 2 1/2 game lead over the Philadelphia Phillies in the division.

Up next Atlanta RHP Reynaldo López (3-1, 3.47 ERA) faces St. Louis RHP Michael McGreevy (3-6, 3.12 ERA) in the second game of the series on Wednesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Dubón grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Harris II grounded out to shortstop, Olson to third.
	9th Inning	Olson doubled to center.
	9th Inning	Albies grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	O'Brien relieved Fernandez
	9th Inning	Herrera flied out to left.

Statistics

STL		ATL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
8	Ground Balls	10
6	Strikeouts	12
5	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	6
1	Stolen Bases	1
5	Walks	7
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	1
32	At Bats	32
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	25
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
19	Fly Balls	11
0	Caught Stealing	0
147	Pitches	182
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
12	Total Bases	7
38	Plate Appearances	41
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
4.1	Runs Created	3.6
.188	Batting Average	.188
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.375	Slugging Percentage	.219
.375	Secondary Average	.281
.289	On Base Percentage	.341
.664	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.560
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
4.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.6
33.0	Batter Rating	19.0
16.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.87	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.44
.188	Isolated Power	.031
0.83	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.58
.132	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.171
.188	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.094
10.0	Runs Produced	5.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.7
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
80.8	MLB Rating	70.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0