Herrmann’s 2nd HR lifts D-backs over Braves in 11

ATLANTA — Chris Herrmann capped the first two-homer game of his career in timely fashion and allowed the D-backs to complete a three-game sweep with Sunday afternoon’s 5-3, 11-inning win over the Braves at Turner Field.

Herrmann’s two-run homer off Jim Johnson sunk the Braves, who had tied the game with a three-run eighth inning. Atlanta has lost 15 of its first 16 home games. The D-backs entered this series having lost six straight games and eight of their past nine.

D-backs starter Patrick Corbin scattered five hits over seven scoreless innings and exited with a 3-0 lead. But Jeff Francoeur produced a game-tying, two-run double off Jake Barrett, who entered after Tyler Flowers’ RBI single accounted for one of the three hits left-hander Andrew Chafin surrendered in the eighth.

Coming off a start in which he allowed the Mets three first-inning homers, Braves starter Mike Foltynewicz matched a career high with eight strikeouts and surrendered just two runs over seven innings. Corbin delivered an RBI triple after Erick Aybar’s defensive miscue extended the fifth inning, and Herrmann further marred Foltynewicz’s impressive outing when he drilled an 0-2 fastball off the right-field foul pole with two outs in the seventh.

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