Braves sweep slumping Blue Jays 10-2

AP News (2009-05-25 23:13:12)
McCann hits 2 homers, Chipper Jones has key hit as Braves beat Blue Jays 10-2 to cap sweep

Brian McCann homered twice, pinch-hitter Chipper Jones drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded single in the seventh inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-2 Sunday to cap a three-game sweep.

The sweep was the Braves' first in eight series with Toronto.

Toronto, which began its nine-game road trip with three straight losses at Boston, has been swept in back-to-back road series for the first time since May 2007 at Cleveland and Texas.

The Blue Jays' six-game losing streak is their longest since dropping seven straight last June.

McCann drove in four runs and Kelly Johnson hit a homer and drove in three runs for Atlanta. The Braves scored seven times in the seventh to break away from a 2-2 tie.

Jeff Bennett (2-1), Atlanta's third of five relievers, recorded one out in the seventh.

Shawn Camp (0-2) gave up the first three runs in the seventh. Left-handed batters were 1-for-22 against Toronto right-hander Jason Frasor this season before he gave up three hits to lefties in the seventh, driving in six runs.

Jones missed the first two games of the series after hurting his right big toe on Thursday night. He didn't start on Sunday but made good on his first pinch-hit appearance of the season.

Jones greeted Frasor with an RBI single off first baseman Lyle Overbay's glove for a 3-2 lead. Johnson followed with a two-run double, Garret Anderson had a sacrifice fly and McCann added a three-run homer off Frasor to cap the seven-run inning.

Johnson and McCann hit first-inning home runs off Scott Richmond.

The Blue Jays pulled even with runs in the fourth and sixth innings off Jair Jurrjens, who gave up eight hits and two runs in six innings.

Vernon Wells created a run for Toronto in the fourth. He led off with a single, stole second on Adam Lind's strikeout, stole third and scored on Jose Bautista's groundout.

Wells led off the fifth with a double and scored on Overbay's one-out single, making it 2-all.

The Blue Jays loaded the bases in the seventh off reliever Peter Moylan. Reliever Eric O'Flaherty struck out Lind, and Bennett retired Bautista on a fly ball.

Notes: Braves SS Yunel Escobar (right hip flexor) did not play. Diory Hernandez, playing in place of Escobar, singled in the seventh for his first major league hit. ... The Braves also hit two homers in the same inning on April 5 at Philadelphia. ... Johnson's homer was his second in two games and his fifth career leadoff homer.