Baseball: Yamamoto solid, but charged with loss as Braves sweep Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a run over 6-1/3 innings but was charged with Thursday's 1-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves after being outdueled by opposing starter Chris Sale.Yamamoto (12-8) surrendered his only run on his first pitch of the game when Drake Baldwin hit a hanging splitter over the right-field wall at Truist Park, as the Braves swept the three-game series, winning each game by a single run.Sale (13-9) tossed a five-hit shutout, striking out 11 with two hit batsmen in a 109-pitch effort.Yamamoto scattered three more singles while walking one in a 105-pitch out…READ FULL ARTICLE