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    The Atlanta Braves hope veteran Charlie Morton can bounce back from a rough start and enable them to extend their winning streak to six games when they host the Texas Rangers on Saturday night. Morton (1-0. 5.29 ERA) will oppose Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (1-1, 2.92) in the second contest of the three-game series. The Braves recorded an 8-3 victory in the opener on Friday. Morton will make his fourth start of the season. The right-hander has pitched 5 2/3 innings in each start but has...

  • Travis d’Arnaud’s big day dooms Texas Rangers in opener from Atlanta

    The Texas Rangers scored three runs but the Atlanta Braves scored two runs with Travis d’Arnaud pitching in for six by himself. Not much to say about this one. The Braves are a good team — maybe the best team if their pitching holds up — and apparently that includes an infinite supply of dingers from their No. 2 catcher. With 2023 All-Star backstop Sean Murphy on the IL, the Braves have been turning to 12-year veteran Travis d’Arnaud and tonight he hit three home runs — including a grand slam —...

  • Braves’ Travis d’Arnaud hits 3 home runs, including grand slam; Chris Sale ecstatic

    ATLANTA — The first question for pitcher in the postgame interview room Friday was about how he settled down to work seven solid innings after giving up a first-inning leadoff homer to . Sale smiled and swatted it aside like the veteran he is. “To be honest, nobody cares,” he said. “We’re here to talk about one thing and one thing only.” Advertisement And Sale was correct. Braves catcher hit three home runs, including a tiebreaking sixth-inning grand slam in the Braves’ 8-3 win against the ,...