Vaughn Grissom has been rounded to the third as it sinks in.
He had just defeated the Green Monster for his first big hit, and he clapped himself vigorously before finishing his run home.
“It was like a ‘We made it’ moment, I guess,” Brave ‘ top prospect said after home on his major league debut to help Atlanta beat Boston Red Sox 8-4 on Wednesday night. “Like a kind of ‘We did it’ kind of feeling.”
Grissom returned home on Lansdowne Street, then hit singles and scored another goal, and Marcell Ozuna Hit a homer three times to help Atlanta complete two games. Kyle Wright earned a 14th tournament lead for the reigning World Series champion, who arrived in Boston after losing 4/5 games to the first-place Mets and now 7 back-to-back games at the NL East.
“We had a rough weekend,” said Braves manager Brian Snitker. “That’s good; it’s going to happen. I don’t think this won’t be hit hard.”
Called up earlier in the day from Double-A, 21-year-old Grissom failed to hit his first two strokes but hit the first pitch he saw in the seventh round completely out of Fenway. Park. He tossed his cane aside before taking off around the bases, clapping his hands as he finished third and returning home to be congratulated by Michael Harris IIwho preceded him.
A large number of Braves fans in the crowd of 35,406 cheered for Grissom. Grissom won his next run, taking second place and scoring. When he gave a post-match interview on the pitch, the fans behind the dugout chanted his name.
“I just take a second for myself (before the game) to really look at everything, and do my best to just get a picture in my head,” said Grissom, who was back on the field with his family after the game. fight. . “You really don’t know until you actually do it. I mean, you try to prepare yourself and all that, but it’s just not the way you think it is.”
Wright (14-5) allowed one run on one stroke and one walk in six innings, taking five for his 10th win in 12 decisions.
Red Sox transaction deadline Tommy Pham the hosts for the third game in a row, hitting a treble in the seventh game to turn the 5-1 deficit into a one-off. But the Braves scored two more goals in the 1/8 round, over By Eddie Rosario double and fly sacrifice of Ozuna.
Nick Pivetta (8-9) pitches six innings, allowing three runs – Ozuna’s hit – with five hits and two walks while hitting out five times. Last place Red Sox lost their fourth game in a row and sixth out of seven.
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Grissom hit .324 with 14 homers, 67 RBI and 27 stolen bases in Single- and Double-A this season. His mother, father, stepfather, sister, aunt and girlfriend made the trip from Florida to see him play second and ninth bases on his debut.
Grissom fell into a boxer’s pick in the third round, defeated in the fifth round and went on to beat one-on-one in the seventh, when he scored to make it 5-1.
Grissom added a single in season nine; The Braves will definitely call this ball a keepsake (although the ball at home was eventually retrieved). He then scored in Dansby Swanson’s only to make it 8-4.
“He’s like a kid on the playground, almost with a ball. I think they say that’s true. I think he really enjoys playing baseball,” Snitker said. “It’s a novel idea: Have fun playing baseball.”
Harris, who was called up in May, is also a 21-year-old potential candidate who has moved up to eighth in the order. He entered Wednesday’s game with .288 with 10 hosts, 34 RBIs and 12 stolen bases while bolstering a central defense.
Associated Press report.
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