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Freddie Freeman Hits the Cycle Against Reds

Written by Eric Cole at Talking Chop.com

Freddie Freeman hit for the cycle, the first for the Braves since Mark Kotsay did so in the 2008 season and Erick Aybar had a strong game with 3 RBIs (no, seriously…he did). Chase d’Arnaud took matters in to his own hands, though, and delivered a walk-off single in the craziest win of the year for the Braves by a final score of 9-8.

The Braves started the game by doing a good thing. In the bottom of the first, Mallex Smith led off with a single and was swiftly driven in by a resurgent Ender Inciarte by an RBI double. You can witness how fast Mallex is (seriously, he looked like he was out for a morning job scoring from first) as well as Ender putting a charge in to one below.

Then, the Braves did some more good things in the bottom of the third inning where Freddie Freeman led with a double followed by Adonis Garcia getting a single on a pitch that bounced about a foot in front of the plate (proof at the end of this segment). Markakis would then walk to load the bases for Jace Peterson. Jace would “deliver” as he hit a grounder to first that normally sure-handed Joey Votto sailed the throw home on and scored another run for the Braves. A two-run double from Erick Aybar (no, you are not misreading that) later and the Braves had a 4-0 lead.

 Then the Braves did some bad things. Bud Norris, who had yet to give up a hit in the game up until the fourth inning went BB,single, RBI double, Sac fly, RBI groundout, strikeout. While given how the inning started it could have been much worse, instead of a comfortable four run lead, the Braves led by just a margin of 4-3.

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