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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
San Diego 8, Atlanta 2
When: 6:35 PM ET, Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
Temperature: 76°
Umpires: Home - Eric Cooper, 1B - Marty Foster, 2B - Tim Timmons, 3B - Victor Carapazza
Attendance: 16845

Padres 8, Braves 2: Hot-hitting Chase Headley had a two-run single and Eric Stults pitched six strong innings as host San Diego won for the ninth time in 10 games.

Headley’s fifth-inning single off Tommy Hanson (12-7) raised his August RBI count to 30 as the Padres improved to 17-10 this month and handed Atlanta its eighth loss in 12 games.

Stults (5-2) gave up one unearned run and five hits while winning his fourth straight decision. He struck out five and walked two.

After Headley’s latest timely hit gave San Diego a 4-1 edge, the Padres put the game away with a four-run eighth. Chris Denorfia delivered a two-run, pinch-hit single and Yasmani Grandal and Yonder Alonso added run-scoring singles.

San Diego tallied twice in the fourth to take a 2-0 lead, with one run scoring on Logan Forsythe’s double off the base of the left-field fence and the other on an infield out by Cameron Maybin.

Forsythe’s throwing error set up Atlanta’s fifth-inning run, which crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by Michael Bourn.

David Ross homered in the ninth for the Braves’ other run.

Chipper Jones went 2-for-4 and hit a ground single to center in the eighth in the final at-bat of his career in San Diego.

Hanson allowed four runs (three earned) and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings. It was his first loss to San Diego in five career decisions.

GAME NOTEBOOK: San Diego OF Will Venable had two hits and is batting .471 (16-for-34) over his last nine games. … Jones batted .319 in 31 career games at Petco Park, with seven homers and 20 RBIs. … The Padres expect to get closer Huston Street (calf) back from the disabled list during a weekend series against the Colorado Rockies. Street is slated to throw a rehab outing at Single-A Lake Elsinore on Friday before joining the club. … Martin Prado played first base in the series finale, marking the fifth different position he has started at during Atlanta’s 10-game road trip. He also started games at left field, shortstop, third base and second base.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   San Diego
Tommy Hanson Player Eric Stults
Loss W/L Win
4.2 IP 6.0
3 Strikeouts 5
8 Hits 5
5.79 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Atlanta   San Diego
David Ross Player Yonder Alonso
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
1 HR 0
5 TB 2
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 7 1 10 .212 14 7 2 2 0 1
San Diego 13 0 16 .371 22 4 8 5 1 1