ATLANTA — Odubel Herrera continued to swing a hot bat and rookie Nick Pivetta earned his first big-league win in the Phillies' 11-4 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.
The Phillies have won three games in a row for the first time since April 20-27 when they won six straight. They went on to lose 26 of their next 32 games before this current win streak.
The Phils averaged just 3.54 runs per game in May and were shut out in the first game of June. In the last three games, however, they have scored a total of 25 runs.
The Phils are 20-35, still the worst mark in the majors. The Braves are 24-31.
Starting pitching report
Pivetta returned from Triple A, taking the place of Zach Eflin. His offense gave him a nice cushion and he pitched five innings of three-run ball. Pivetta made four starts with the big club earlier in the season and struggled with high pitch counts. He continued to do so in this outing, throwing 93 pitches, but hung around long enough for his first big-league win. He allowed six hits and three walks.
The Phils mugged Braves starter Bartolo Colon for seven hits and eight runs in 3 2/3 innings.
MLB
Colon, 44, signed a one-year, $12.5 million contract with the Braves in the offseason. He has not delivered what the Braves expected. He is 2-7 with a 7.78 ERA in 12 starts.
Bullpen report
Jeanmar Gomez, Edubray Ramos and Luis Garcia closed it out for the Phils.
At the plate
Herrera, who hit just .183 in May, continued to come alive in June. He had two doubles and a homer for the second straight game. Herrera also became the first Phillies player in the modern era (since 1900) with multiple doubles in three straight games, per Elias Sports Bureau. He has eight extra-base hits in the last three games, as many as he had in 27 games in May.
The Phillies bunched a double, a single and a homer together in taking a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Tommy Joseph's two-run homer, his 10th home run of the season, highlighted the inning. Joseph had three hits.
Aaron Altherr broke a 20-game homerless drought with a two-run shot in the eighth, his ninth of the season. He had three hits.
Johan Camargo doubled and tripled for the Braves. Ender Inciarte had two hits, walked twice and scored two runs.
Health check
Eflin and Roman Quinn are headed to the doctor to have their ailing elbows checked (see story).
Up next
The series continues on Tuesday night. Aaron Nola (2-3, 5.06) pitches against Atlanta lefty Jaime Garcia (2-3, 3.18).