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Atlanta Braves' Charlie Morton Continues Historic Dominance of Detroit Tigers

Atlanta Braves veteran right-hander Charlie Morton dominated the Detroit Tigers on Monday night. He tossed 5.2 scoreless innings and struck out eight, continuing a run of historic dominance against Detroit.

Brady Farkas

Atlanta Braves' Charlie Morton Continues Historic Dominance of Detroit Tigers
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The Detroit Tigers came back and beat the Atlanta Braves on Monday night by a score of 6-5 in extra innings. The Tigers got one in the eighth and three in the ninth to even force the extra frame.

The win by the Tigers snapped a nine-game losing streak and moved them to 27-37 on the season.

Despite the team loss, Braves starting pitcher Charlie Morton was dominant against Detroit, going 5.2 scoreless innings, allowing just four hits and striking out eight.

With the no decision, he's 5-6 with a 3.60 ERA on the year. He's now struck out 85 batters in 75 innings.

Morton's strong Monday start continued a string of historic dominance against the Tigers.

Per ESPN Stats & Info:

Charlie Morton is the 1st pitcher since ER became official in 1913 to go 3 straight starts against the Tigers with 0 ER and 8 strikeouts.

More than 100 years of baseball and all the great pitchers that have come through the sport and it's never happened before? Very impressive from the veteran.

Morton is in his 16th season in the big leagues with the Pirates, Phillies, Astros, Rays and Braves. He helped the Astros win the 2017 World Series and got to the World Series in 2020 with Tampa Bay.

For his career, the 39-year-old is 121-107 with a 4.01 ERA.

The loss dropped Atlanta to 40-26 on the year. They are still in first place in the National League East.

The two teams will play again on Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. ET.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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