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Final Score: Atlanta 11 - Arizona 4
Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - Brian McCann homered and drove in four runs as the Atlanta Braves knocked off the struggling Arizona Diamondbacks, 11-4.
Yunel Escobar was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI for the Braves, who have won the first three tests of this four-game series and five of their last seven games overall.
Jair Jurrjens (11-7) was credited with the win after allowing four runs -- three earned -- on seven hits and two walks to go with six strikeouts in his six-inning start.
Dan Haren (12-6), in his first start since signing a contract extension through the 2012 season, was touched for a season-high six runs on 10 hits and three walks for Arizona, which has dropped four straight.
Stephen Drew doubled and tripled in the loss, which was doubly rough for the D'Backs, who may have lost second baseman Orlando Hudson for the season after a freak injury in the sixth inning.
Coming into the sixth, the D-Backs led, 3-2, but that changed and much more as the Braves rallied for seven runs in the frame. Kelly Johnson, who struck out his other four times at the plate, doubled to right to bring in a pair and Jurrjens singled to make it a rare short night for Haren.
Juan Cruz entered, walked Gregor Blanco on four pitches to load the bases and hit Escobar to force in a run. One out later, McCann singled to left to bring in two runs. McCann attempted to advance to second on the throw home, and Cruz's throw to the bag was off the mark. Hudson's glove collided with the sliding McCann while attempting to lunge for the ball, bending his left wrist in the process.
Hudson remained on the ground in pain for several moments before exiting with his wrist elevated. After the game, it was revealed Hudson suffered a fractured bone in the wrist and the club will decide in the next few days whether he needs season-ending surgery.
"[Hudson's] not great, dislocation, fracture of a bone in his wrist," Arizona manager Bob Melvin said. "Not 100-percent sure whether he has to have surgery, probably a pretty good chance...If he has the surgery he's out for the rest of the year, if he doesn't there's still a chance he could be out for the rest of the year."
Escobar scored on Cruz's error, and the reliever threw another errant throw when trying to pick off McCann, who scored easily to cap the inning's scoring.
Arizona's Tony Clark singled in a run in the bottom half, but two innings later Escobar doubled in a run and Chipper Jones brought home a run with a sacrifice fly to make it an 11-4 game.
Jones' two-out single preceded McCann's 21st home run of the season in the first to give the Braves a quick 2-0 edge.
"It was a 3-2 count and I was sitting on a fast ball, and [Haren] left a split a little up in the zone and I was able to get enough wood on it to hit it out," McCann recalled.
Alex Romero's RBI groundout in the fourth made it a 2-1 game, and Arizona took its first lead an inning later.
With runners on the corners, Conor Jackson reached on Escobar's fielding error, which scored a run, and Chad Tracy followed with a sac fly to center to give Arizona a short-lived 3-2 lead.
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