Braves first team to 30 wins after slipping past Cubs 4-1

Mike Yastrzemski drove in the tiebreaking run with a pinch-hit double in the eighth inning, and Mauricio Dubón finished off Chicago with a two-run homer that carried the Atlanta Braves to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.

The Braves extended baseball’s best record to 30-13 and made it two in a row over the Cubs, who arrived in Atlanta with the NL’s second-best mark but now have lost a season-high four in a row.

Shota Imanaga (4-3) was the hard-luck loser for Chicago. He pitched into the eighth, surrendering a homer to Drake Baldwin but left with the score tied at 1.

The Cubs managed just four hits — all singles — after being held to a single hit in the series opener, a 5-2 victory for the Braves.

The teams wrap up their three-game series on Thursday, with LHP Chris Sale (6-2, 2.20 ERA) going for the Braves against Cubs RHP Ben Brown (1-1, 1.82).


(AP Photo Mike Stewart)