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Yankees win 10th straight in heavyweight clash with Braves

ATLANTA — Perfect 10.

The Yankees continued their stunning turnaround by beating the Braves, a team that was as hot as they were heading into Monday’s game at Truist Park.

Sparked by another strong game from Giancarlo Stanton, who had a solo homer and a two-run double, the Yankees won their season-high 10th straight, with a 5-1 victory.

It’s their longest winning streak since last September and came in the first game between two teams entering with winning streaks of at least nine games since 1901.

With the win, the Yankees pulled to within four games of the first-place Rays in the AL East and began a nine-game road trip with another solid performance from their pitching staff.

Jordan Montgomery allowed just one run despite walking four in five innings. Jonathan Loaisiga and Wandy Peralta pitched three scoreless innings before Aroldis Chapman pitched the ninth in his first appearance since he was unable to close out a win over Boston on Wednesday.

Giancarlo Stanton celebrates his second inning home run.
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Chapman returned to form with a perfect inning.

It all came against an Atlanta team that, like the Yankees, had won nine in a row and 16 of 18. The Braves were also 10-0 in their previous 10 games against lefty starters.

Stanton gave the Yankees the lead in the top of the second with a homer to right, his 21st of the season, off right-hander Huascar Ynoa.

Dansby Swanson tied it to open the bottom of the inning with a home run to center off Montgomery, who got some help from Joey Gallo in left later in the second, when Gallo made a diving catch near the line to rob Guillermo Heredia of a potential double with one out.

Montgomery got into trouble in the fourth, with back-to-back two-out walks to Adam Duvall and William Contreras.

Following a visit from pitching coach Matt Blake, Montgomery gave up a liner to Heredia, which went right at Andrew Velazquez at short for the final out of the inning.

Velazquez had a two-out double to right in the fifth. Ynoa fell behind Montgomery, 3-1, before Montgomery went down swinging on a 3-2 pitch.

But it hardly mattered, with Stanton in the lineup.

After Ynoa hit DJ LeMahieu with a pitch to lead off the sixth, Anthony Rizzo lined out to center and Aaron Judge flied to right.

Gallo walked to extend the inning and bring up Stanton, who delivered again — this time by ripping a double to left that scored both runners to make it 3-1.

The Yankees then quickly turned to their bullpen, as Loaisiga replaced Montgomery — taking Stanton’s spot in the lineup in the double-switch, with Brett Gardner also entering the game.

Loaisiga struck out four in two spotless innings before Luke Voit pinch hit for him in the eighth after Judge singled and Gallo walked again. A balk by Edgar Santana advanced both runners before Voit walked to load the bases for Gary Sanchez, who ripped a two-run single through the left side of the infield against Jesse Chavez for a 5-1 lead.

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Assessing the winners and losers at the trade deadline – The Athletic

Here’s to the teams that made a push, going for it at the July 30 trade deadline despite playoff odds that suggested their chances were slim. Most of them are being rewarded for their efforts, while certain teams that took a more conservative course have regressed.

It doesn’t always turn out this way. It might not even turn out this way in the end, for only three weeks have passed since the deadline and six remain in the regular season. But Major League Baseball is best when teams choose to compete in the present rather than focus on the future. Believe it or not, clubs can pursue both objectives without acting irrationally.

Some of the buyers will fail to reach the postseason and wonder if they viewed their clubs too optimistically. Some of the prospects who were traded will come back to haunt the clubs that moved them. Fine, it happens. The game is unpredictable and forever humbling. But the goal, always, should be to win. 

A number of borderline contenders energized their clubhouses with their acquisitions, even though they faced playoff odds of less than 50 percent at the time they made their big moves, according to FanGraphs (the website generates the odds from the current standings, the remaining schedule and the team’s projected performance, simulating the remaining season 10,000 times.) 

Some clubs that failed to sufficiently address their needs sought to do bigger things, and their subsequent drops in the standings were due solely to their misses.

The Padres tried for Max Scherzer and

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Atlanta Braves stay busy, acquire Stephen Vogt from Arizona Diamondbacks

ATLANTA — Trying to fill another injury hole with a trade, the Atlanta Braves acquired veteran catcher Stephen Vogt from the Arizona Diamondbacks late Friday night for minor league first baseman Mason Berne.

The 36-year-old Vogt, a two-time All-Star with Oakland, batted .212 with five homers and 17 RBIs in 52 games for the major-league-worst Diamondbacks this season. He has thrown out 10 of 30 runners attempting to steal.

The move came one night after the Braves obtained Joc Pederson in a trade with the Chicago Cubs, bolstering their outfield after recently losing star slugger Ronald Acuna Jr. to a season-ending knee injury.

Atlanta, hoping to chase down the New York Mets and win its fourth straight National League East title, has struggled to replace injured catcher Travis d’Arnaud this year with the likes of Kevan Smith, William Contreras and Jonathan Lucroy.

Following a big 2020 season, d’Arnaud has played only 23 games this year and is on the 60-day injured list with torn ligaments in his left thumb. He has been progressing but is not expected back until next month.

The third-place Braves (44-46) are four games behind the NL East-leading Mets, with Philadelphia (45-45) in between.

Berne, 25, was 3-for-12 (.250) with a home run in five games in the low minors with the FCL Braves this season.

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