McCann's grand slam helps Braves down Brewers

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07/18/2010 - Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brian McCann hit his sixth career grand slam and drove in five to lead the Braves in an 11-6 win and split of a four-game series with Milwaukee at Turner Field.

Matt Diaz also homered, knocked in three and scored twice during a 3-for-4 afternoon. Omar Infante collected four hits with two RBI and two runs scored for the Braves, who had dropped three of four since winning four straight.

Derek Lowe (10-8) did enough for the win in 5 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on eight hits. He had dropped his previous three starts.

Rickie Weeks homered twice to set a Brewers record for home runs in a season by a second baseman with 17 -- also a new career best. He ended 3-for-4 with a walk and scored three times.

Prince Fielder added a solo home run, his 22nd on the year, and drove in two, while Ryan Braun had three hits and an RBI for Milwaukee, which had won five of six coming in.

Manny Parra (3-7) was slammed for 10 hits and 10 runs in 5 1/3 innings to suffer his fourth loss in the last six decisions.

Atlanta was already up 2-1 going into the third inning where the hosts broke it open with a five-run frame. Parra walked Martin Prado to start and Jason Heyward and Infante singled to bring Prado around to score.

Troy Glaus walked to load the bases and McCann lifted an 0-2 fastball just over the right-field wall for a 7-1 difference.

"Anytime you get the bases loaded you want to get a big hit with less than two outs. I was lucky enough to get an 0-2 pitch that I know the pitcher didn't want to put it there, but I capitalized on it," McCann said. "Everybody hit today, it was a great team effort. Everybody worked the count, took what the pitcher gave us and were able to score some runs."

Diaz took Parra out to left in the fifth to extend the lead before the Brewers got two back in the next inning as Weeks led off with his second homer of the game to straight-away center and Fielder knocked in Braun with a single.

"We didn't get the job done but I thought we played good baseball. Sometimes it goes that way, but we have something to build off of. We got another great team over there (Atlanta) and we split with them," Weeks said.

The Braves, though, put the game out of reach for good with three more in the home sixth.

Parra exited after putting two of the first three batters on base and David Riske came on to allow an RBI single to Infante, then hit Glaus with a pitch to load the bases. McCann drew a walk to force in Heyward and Diaz ripped a base hit to center for an 11-3 affair.

Milwaukee attempted to rally late, but the deficit proved too much. Jesse Chavez served up a leadoff homer to Fielder in the eighth and Corey Hart scored Lorenzo Cain with a sacrifice fly in the ninth. Braun followed with a double to score Weeks and Billy Wagner was called upon to get the final two outs of the game.

Weeks led off the game with a blast to center field, but Atlanta quickly went in front on a Diaz run-scoring double and Melky Cabrera's RBI groundout in the second.

Game Notes

Lowe beat Milwaukee back on May 12 at Miller Park with six innings of two-run ball and is 5-1 in 11 career games (nine starts) against the Brewers...Atlanta won the season series 5-2...Braves third baseman Chipper Jones was held out of the starting lineup sat for a second straight game with a mild strain of his left hamstring...Hart upped his RBI total to 70 this season, good for second in the National League behind the Phillies' Ryan Howard...McCann's five RBI tied a career high, while Parra matched a career high with his 10 runs allowed...Cain got his first major league hit and ended 2-for-2 with a double and run scored for Milwaukee...Weeks had his fifth career multi-homer game and second this season. A rain delay of 35 minutes preceded the first pitch.

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