Perez rises to occasion on hectic day

ATLANTA — If Williams Perez is among the many pitchers who are creatures of habit, he might want to convince himself and the Braves that it was not the hectic travel and sporadic preparations that led him to an efficient eight-inning gem during Wednesday night’s 5-1 win over the Phillies.

“That’s pretty incredible,” Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “They seem to do that throughout history, when you just don’t know what’s going to happen and you get called and you come to the big leagues, and next thing you know, you throw eight innings of one-run ball.”

After Triple-A Gwinnett’s game Tuesday night in Rochester, N.Y., Perez learned that he needed to fly to Atlanta to make the start Jhoulys Chacin had been scheduled to make before he was traded to the Angels on Wednesday afternoon.

Perez arrived at Turner Field around 3 p.m. ET, and a little more than six hours later, he was celebrating that he’d limited the Phillies to two hits and faced just one more than the minimum during his 85-pitch, eight-inning performance.

“I was a little tired, but I didn’t want that to affect me,” Perez said through …

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