ATLANTA – Bud Norris is making the most of his second chance in the Braves’ rotation.
Norris threw seven scoreless innings, Freddie Freeman and Adonis Garcia homered, and Atlanta beat Bartolo Colon and the New York Mets 5-2 on Sunday.
Freeman had three hits against Colon, helping Atlanta salvage a split of the four-game series. Freeman said his approach against the 43-year-old Colon was the same as he would use against a knuckleball pitcher.
“I know he’s going to throw strikes, so I just go up there swinging,” Freeman said. “He was a little bit slower and I saw that. You were getting good pitches early in the count, so I went up there aggressive.”
Norris (3-7) allowed four hits, struck out eight and walked none.