After shedding 4 out of 5 in a key collection with the Mets and having a quiet commerce deadline, the Atlanta Braves have drawn the ace up their sleeve to attempt to chase down first place.
The Braves are seven video games again of the Mets within the NL East, and solely three video games forward of the resurgent Phillies in third. They have been determined for a jolt of power within the lineup. With Adam Duvall and Ozzie Albies at the moment injured, Atlanta turned to its farm system and known as up prime prospect Vaughn Grissom.
Grissom is the No. 98 prospect in baseball and was batting .324 with 14 homers, 67 RBIs and 27 stolen bases between Single-A and Double-A this 12 months. Grissom made an instantaneous influence by launching a two-run homer that sailed over The Monster and out of Fenway Park for his first MLB hit within the Braves’ win over the Pink Sox on Wednesday evening.
“I didn’t really feel a factor. I didn’t really feel one factor,” Grissom mentioned. “Actually, I hit it and blacked out till I noticed my first-base coach and simply began laughing.”
Grissom performed the sport at second base, a place that had been missing manufacturing ever since Albies went down with a fractured foot in June. His homer gave the Braves a 5-1 lead and he later singled and scored to place the ending touches on the 8-4 triumph.
“He did every little thing,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker mentioned of Grissom. “He did nice. Nothing fazed him. That energy is actual.”
The 21-year-old is the second younger gun to be promoted straight from Double-A to the Braves’ lineup. Michael Harris II, the Braves’ former prime prospect, was promoted in Could and gave the crew immediate manufacturing. Atlanta will probably be hoping for a similar from Grissom.
“It was like a ‘We made it’ second, I suppose,” Grissom mentioned of his interplay with Harris after the homer. “Like, a ‘We did it’ kind of feeling.”
The Braves and Mets have one other four-game collection starting Aug. 15 in Atlanta.
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