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- Updated: August 23, 2016
PHOENIX — Upon further review, a trip to Arizona might have been every bit as therapeutic for Freddie Freeman as the cortisone shot he received this past weekend to aid a left finger ailment that certainly wasn’t burdensome during Monday night’s 9-8 loss to the D-backs at Chase Field.
After Freeman capped the ninth multihomer game of his career with a game-tying solo homer off D-backs right-hander Enrique Burgos in the ninth inning, Paul Goldschmidt opened the bottom half of the frame with a walk-off homer off John Gant, who entered after Arodys Vizcaino extended his recent woes by surrendering four runs in the seventh inning.
As the Braves have lost seven of their past nine games, they have seen their pitching staff post a 7.41 ERA. Vizcaino, who declined to speak to the media after the loss, has allowed four runs in two of the three appearances he’s made since he returned from the disabled list and Tyrell Jenkins became the latest member of the starting rotation to be demoted to Triple-A Gwinnett.
The Braves have plenty of problems, but they can be thankful …
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