ATLANTA — Nick Gonzales and Jack Suwinski had RBI hits in the sixth inning, and Bubba Chandler pitched one-run ball through 5 2/3 innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 on Saturday night at Truist Park.
Pittsburg wrapped up a series victory on the final weekend of the season for two teams near the bottom of the National League standings and headed for an early start to the offseason rather than October baseball in the MLB playoffs.
Chandler, a 23-year-old rookie right-hander from Bogart — 60 miles east of Atlanta — allowed one run on four hits with six strikeouts and no walks as he improved to 4-1.
The Braves got on the board first with Marcell Ozuna’s RBI single in the second inning. Pittsburgh tied the game in the third on catcher Henry Davis’ seventh homer of the season, a solo shot, then went ahead to stay in the sixth when Gonzales hit an RBI double and Suwinski followed with a run-scoring single.
The Pirates’ two-run inning started when Spencer Horwitz hit a soft line-drive single that knocked the glove off Braves second baseman Brett Wisely. He then threw the ball away, allowing Horwitz to reach.