ATLANTA – Tommy Hanson’s five-game winning streak ended with his worst start of the season.
Even so, he believes with a few good bounces he might have had another win.
Hanson gave up season-high totals of five runs and eight hits as the Atlanta Braves lost 5-2 to John Lannan and the Washington Nationals on Saturday night.
“I don’t want to get too down on myself and think too in-depth on this game,” Hanson said. “I feel like the ball bounces my way a couple times, the game is totally different. But that’s not what happened. So I have to keep working hard. Keep doing what I’m doing.”
One of those bounces came off the bat of Lannan, who drove in two runs with his first hit of the season, a bases-loaded bouncer up the middle in the second inning.