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Wisler flirts with no-no as Braves beat D-backs
- Updated: August 26, 2016
PHOENIX — After making his last four starts with Triple-A Gwinnett, Matt Wisler returned to the Majors with a dominant performance. The Braves right-hander carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning in a 3-1 win over the D-backs on Thursday night at Chase Field.
Wisler (5-11) lost four of his five starts in July, posting an 8.89 ERA for the month, before being demoted. He returned with eight innings of one-run ball, allowing two hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Atlanta scored a pair of runs in the third and Gordon Beckham added an RBI double in the sixth, salvaging a split in the four-game series with Arizona.
“I kind of saw [the possible no-hitter], but I really didn’t think about it because it’s pretty hard to complete,” Wisler said. “So, I just went out there, took it one pitch at a time and tried to see how many outs I could get.”
D-backs starter Robbie Ray (7-12) lost for the first time in his last four starts, allowing two earned runs on six hits over five innings. Paul Goldschmidt’s single ended Wisler’s no-hit bid to open the seventh. He later scored Arizona’s lone run on a Chris Owings groundout.
“He battled again,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said. “It was a little reminiscent of some of his outings last year, where he would only give up a couple runs, but it took a lot of pitches to do it. Again, he gave us a chance to win.”
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDImpressive return: Showing some of the aggressiveness the Braves wanted him to regain as he spent the past few weeks with Gwinnett, Wisler pitched around a couple of early walks and benefited from the great stop Dansby Swanson made on Owings’ sharp grounder in the second inning. Swanson booted Owings’ grounder to begin the fifth, but Wisler followed by inducing a double play. Jean Segura’s two-out single in the eighth prevented Wisler from allowing one hit over …
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