Atlanta Braves vs. San Diego Padres – Box Score – April 26, 2011 – ESPN.

Wow, runs! And a complete game! What is this, 1992? Behind strong pitching from Jair Jurrjens and a pair of David Ross homers, the Braves won fairly comfortably for once.

Chipper opened the scoring, homering after Heyward‘s first-inning walk to make it 2-0. Ross’ first homer, in the second inning, made it 3-0 and it stood there until the fourth. The Padres got a run that really shouldn’t have scored and was just another example of the “unearned” run nonsense. Uggla misplayed a grounder that was scored a hit, and McLouth misplayed a gapper that he should have cut off into a triple to score the runner.

Luckily, it didn’t matter too much, except to those of us who have Jurrjens on their fantasy teams, not that I would allow that to affect my judgment. Anyway, the Braves broke it open in the sixth. Chipper singled to lead off, and Uggla and Freeman walked to load the bases. Gonzalez followed with a single to score two, and after the predictable McLouth strikeout Ross hit his second homer to make it 8-1.

Jurrjens cruised from there, bearing down once the Padres got runners on base — which they usually did. They actually had nine hits, the same as the Braves, including three doubles and the triple, but couldn’t put anything together, and also grounded into a couple of double plays. For much of the early part of the game they seemed mostly interested in how quickly they could finish an inning. That helped Jurrjens limit his pitch count to 114 — of which 81 were strikes — and finish the game.