Jair Jurrjens pitched a great game for his first start in a Braves uniform. He was everything the Braves wanted and more and left the game in the 6th, his only shaky inning, with a standing ovation from the crowd after striking out 5 in 5 1/3 innings.

The Braves picked up their first win of the season by a final score of 10-2.

Martin Prado got the Braves off to a good start while filling in for Kelly Johnson who's listed day-to-day with the sore right knee. He started the game off with a triple and came around to score on a Chipper Jones RBI single. Chipper ended up with 2 RBIs on the night and 6 for the season.

In the bottom of the 4th Matt Diaz homered to right, his first this year.

The only Pirates runs came in during the 6th inning. Xavier Nady continues his torrid start to the season by picking up two more RBIs on a 2-run single off Jurrjens.

The bullpen, however, had its best night so far allowing no runs, no hits and 2 walks in 3 2/3 innings. Acosta pitched a one-two-three 7th; Peter Moylan, Lefty Royce Ring & Chris Resop all got out of their spots unscathed.

The Braves got their offense really going from the 7th inning on. Brayan Pena came off the bench to deliver a single, but in the 8th the runs piled on and dashed the Pirates hope of pulling off a comeback. Chipper Jones started the inning off with a walk, Mark Teixeira promptly brought him around with a 408 ft. 2 run blast to center. Francouer continued the hits with a dunked single followed by Brian McCann's single to move Jeff to 3rd. After the Pirates managed to scrape up 2 outs without any more damage Martin Prado brought another great at-bat. In a momentarily scary situation Prado hit the ball to right, 2nd baseman Sanchez got the ball but while attempting to throw Prado out at first he threw the ball way into the outside side of first base and Laroche attempting to save it tripped Prado who fell to the ground and was immediately attended to by braves trainer Jeff Porter. He was able to get up however, and stay in the game and picked up the RBI single. Kotsay to third on the error. Escobar wasted no time and on the first pitch he saw crushed his first homerun of the young season into left-centerfield. A 3-run blast that put the Braves up by 8.

Braves lefty Will Ohman came in to pitch a perfect night courtesy of a barehand 5-3 by Chipper and solid defense by Escobar behind the bag at second to give the Braves the win.

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Paul Manholm vs. Mike Hampton

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