Jair Jurrjens continued to impress early in his first full season and Chipper Jones cannot be explained anymore. Jurrjens picked up his fourth win of the year by a score of 5-3, beating his win total last season with the Tigers. He struck out eight Padres in just six innings allowing just one run. Jones smacked his tenth homer of the year over the left center fence. His average stands at .426 for the year, the only player over .400.
The Padres almost tied the game in the ninth, when Adrian Gonzalez pulled a hanging curveball just foul down the right field line. Brian Giles had a huge game, going 4-5 with two runs, but he could not carry the offense. Gonzalez had two RBI’s in the game and one hit.
Chris Young dropped to 2-3 with the loss. He went just five innings giving up nine hits and five runs. Mark Kotsay also homered off Young in the fourth, an inning after Jones went deep. He had two hits, runs and RBI’s. Yunel Escobar had two hits for the Braves as well.
Jeff Bennett picked up the save for the Braves, the first of his career.