MILWAUKEE – Lucky bounce or not, Dan Uggla will take it.
Uggla’s deep fly ball bounced off the top of the wall and over for a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning, helping the Atlanta Braves to a 2-1 victory over the winless Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.
“I knew I hit it good. I knew I hit it low,” Uggla said. “I didn’t think it was going to carry that far.”
Atlanta trailed before Martin Prado led off the eighth with a homer off Takashi Saito. With two outs, Uggla connected against Saito for his second homer with the Braves.
Uggla, who was 2-for-13 heading into the game and wasn’t happy with his first three at-bats Monday, said he was happy to give his new team a lift.