Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs

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Atlanta Braves

89-63, 38-36 Away

Final
6 - 3

Chicago Cubs

84-68, 44-33 Home

Acuña, Albies, Baldwin hit late 2-run homers that lift Braves over Cubs 6-3

Atlanta Braves vs. Chicago Cubs: Game Highlights

Chicago's loss clinched Milwaukee's fourth straight NL Central title. The Cubs (84-68) maintained a half-game lead over Philadelphia (83-68) for the top NL wild card.

NL East-leading Atlanta (89-63) opened a 5 1/2-game NL East lead over the second-place Phillies.

Given a 3-0 lead, Cubs starter Kevin Gausman retired 16 of his first 18 batters.

Acuña homered off Gausman in the sixth to pull the Braves within a run. Albies went deep in the seventh off Jacob Webb (6-5), his eighth home run in 23 games at Wrigley Field, and Baldwin connected in the ninth against Edward Cabrera.

Martín Pérez (9-9) allowed three runs — two earned — five hits and four walks in six innings. Raisel Iglesias pitched a perfect ninth for his 33rd save in 36 chances.

Pedro Ramirez hit a RBI single in the second. Shortstop Maurico Dubón had a run-scoring throwing error in the fourth inning and Miguel Amaya followed with a sacrifice fly.

Up next Cubs LHP Shota Imanaga (10-10, 3.88 ERA) and Braves rookie RHP JR Ritchie (1-2, 4.50 ERA) start Wednesday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Crow-Armstrong lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Kelly grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Kelly hit for Amaya
	9th Inning	Ramirez grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Iglesias relieved Fuentes
	9th Inning	Acuña Jr. struck out swinging.

Statistics

ATL		CHC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	15
9	Strikeouts	4
6	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
9	Hits	5
2	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
35	At Bats	31
3	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
12	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
154	Pitches	140
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	3
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
19	Total Bases	5
38	Plate Appearances	37
486.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
4	Extra Base Hits	0
6.5	Runs Created	1.3
.257	Batting Average	.161
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.543	Slugging Percentage	.161
.429	Secondary Average	.129
.316	On Base Percentage	.250
.859	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.411
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.1
6.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.3
46.0	Batter Rating	15.0
11.7	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.05	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.78
.286	Isolated Power	.000
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.00
.079	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.108
.171	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.032
12.0	Runs Produced	5.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.7
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
91.5	MLB Rating	68.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0