Reynaldo Lopez looked good early, getting a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the first with a groundout and a strikeout. He got into a little trouble in the second after Miguel Andujar led off the frame with a double but caught a break after Kyle McCann grounded a ball deep into the shortstop hole that Orlando Arcia had no chance of making a play at first. But Andujar broke to third on the play, allowing Arcia to make the easy throw to third for an out that otherwise would've been a hit.
After that the Braves' offense went back to work off A's starters JP Sears in the bottom of the second. Michael Harris II started things with a 1-out single to right, followed by a walk from Sean Murphy. Jarred Kelenic then came up and roped a loud double off the base of the wall in left-center field, scoring both Harris and Murphy, and giving Atlanta an early 3-0 lead.
The only run Lopez surrendered came in the 4th when Andujar led off the inning with a single, a stolen base and then another single from Kyle McCann to put runners on first and third with 1 out. Zack Gelof then lifted a sac fly to left to score Oakland's first run of the night and cut the lead to 3-1.
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