"I'm not going to be as good today as I will be in five days, but you have to start the process sometime." As planned, Heyward played just five innings, going 0 for 2 with a walk. "I'm just really excited and happy to be back," he said. 21 when he was struck by a pitch from the Mets' Jon Niese. He wore a facemask attached to the right side of his batting helmet to protect the right jaw that was fractured Aug. NOTES: The Braves activated OF Jason Heyward before the game. "Hopefully, we'll go deep in their playoffs." "We started off real hot and built a big lead, we cooled off a bit, lost some people, but we were able to maintain that big lead. "It's been a fun season," starter Paul Maholm said. On the other side of Wrigley Field, the atmosphere was completely different as the Braves prepared for their postseason party. I told him that I'd sleep on it and decide if we had any disciplinary action." "I think it took him a couple minutes to understand that he'd misunderstood Dale and he ultimately apologized to me and Dale. Upon hearing that I called him up to Dale's office to tell him how disappointed I was in him. "Despite getting the ball in the closer's role the past couple days, he apparently had some choice words.
"Apparently Kevin misunderstood Dale and thought he'd had his job permanently taken away from him," Epstein said. That prompted Cubs president Theo Epstein to get involved. Gregg had been told by manager Dale Sveum a couple of days ago that Cubs would take an occasional look at Pedro Strop in the closer's role, but Gregg took it to mean that he was no longer the closer and went on a rant against the front office after the game. Gregg (2-5) gave up all four ninth-inning runs, and that was just the start of his bad day.
"I was just glad to get a pitch to handle and not miss it," the catcher said. McCann made the most of his second chance. He comes back later in the ninth inning, facing a pretty good reliever in Kevin Gregg, and gets a base hit."
"We some opportunities and didn't do it (McCann) popped up with runners on second and third (in the fifth inning). "We had a chance for some add-on runs earlier in the game," Gonzalez said. Brian McCann and Johnson each had an RBI single, and Andrelton Simmons followed with a two-run double.įreddie Freeman earlier hit a three-run homer for Atlanta, which jumped out to a 4-0 lead. "It's a good group of guys just a good team."Ĭhris Johnson went 3 for 4 with a home run, and the Braves broke open a tie game in the top of the ninth inning with four runs - all with two outs. They're a talented group of guys - let's not forget that -but we've gone through some adversity at times, losing some key players earlier in the year and a leader on our pitching staff. "This might be the best group of guys in terms of resiliency," manager Fredi Gonzalez said.
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