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NEW YORK -- The Blair Pitch Project started to show results for the Atlanta Braves.Using a revised windup developed during a brief trip to the minor leagues, Aaron Blair won for the first time in 13 major league starts and helped the Braves slow the New York Mets wild-card chase with a 7-3 victory Monday night.Acquired from Arizona along with Dansby Swanson and Ender Inciarte in Decembers trade that sent Shelby Miller to the Diamondbacks, Blair had been 0-6 with an 8.23 ERA in his first 12 big league starts, including 0-2 in three outings against the Mets.Its frustrating giving up runs and going out, not getting a win for your team, but tonight was good, Blair said.Freddie Freeman, getting little sleep after bringing his newborn son home from a hospital late Sunday, drove in three runs off a misfiring Noah Syndergaard. Freeman had four hits for the Braves, who have the worst record in the National League, and Swanson had three hits and three RBI.Blair, a 24-year-old right-hander selected 36th overall in the 2013 amateur draft, went on the disabled list after an Aug. 28 loss because of a strained left knee, then worked on his mechanics during two injury rehabilitation starts in the minors. Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell wanted him to cut down on the turn in his rotation, to reach out farther with his pitching arm and to stay more upright.Obviously, giving up a run per inning wasnt great, so I was up for any changes, Blair said.Activated to start against the Mets, Blair (1-6) did not allow a hit until the fourth, when Curtis Granderson singled and T.J. Rivera hit a two-run homer.Blair gave up six hits in six innings, struck out four and walked one, lowering his ERA to 7.71.All the hard work that hes put in and making changes and sticking to it, not reverting back in stressful situations, its nice to see him rewarded for it, Braves manager Brian Snitker said. He got a good downhill plane going, I thought, and obviously some of those changeups they were swinging over had some late action.Blair was given the ball from the final out and received more than 50 text messages of congratulations.I was able to make pitches when I needed to, and if they hit the ball, they just hit it right at guys, he said. So some of the line drives I was on the luckier side.Syndergaard (13-9) allowed five runs in 3 2/3 innings, and Atlanta fouled off 26 of his 99 pitches. He started to falter in a 35-pitch second that included consecutive walks and RBI singles by Swanson and Inciarte, the first on a 99.9 mph fastball and the second on a slider.Freeman led off the third with an opposite-field homer to left, extending his streaks for hits to 23 games and for reaching base to 39. Freeman then reached down to slice an opposite-field, two-run double in the fourth for a 5-0 lead.Freeman could barely keep his eyes open afterward.I got nothing left. I left it all out there, he said. I can hardly think right now.OH SO CLOSERio Ruiz, a 22-year-old Braves third base prospect, had been announced as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning Sunday in his major league debut when Washington changed pitchers, rain started to fall and the tarp was brought out. The game, which had been interrupted for 1 hour, 7 minutes in the sixth, was called after a 1:50 wait. His parents, who changed their flight to stay after the first rain delay, did not make the trip to New York and headed back to Los Angeles.Theres nothing frustrating about being here in the majors leagues, he said. Im still all smiling.ROTATIONRHP Ryan Weber will start for the Braves in Wednesdays series finale, his second start this season and the seventh of his big league career.GREAT GLOVEBraves LF Matt Kemp, a two-time Gold Glove winner, ran in for diving catches in the seventh on Michael Conforto and Alejandro De Aza.TRAINERS ROOMBraves: RHP Mike Foltynewicz, hit on the left calf by Marcell Ozunas liner on Sept. 12, is playing catch and walking on a treadmill. Snitker said he could return this season.UP NEXTJulio Teheran (5-10) is to start Tuesday for the Braves and RHP Robert Gsellman (2-1) for the Mets, Teheran is 1-0 with a 0.78 ERA against New York in three starts this year.Jaire Alexander Youth Jersey . -- Claudio Bieler hadnt scored since early September, and not from the run of play since mid-July. Jaire Alexander Womens Jersey . Howard Ganz, an MLB lawyer, said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that Rodriguezs claims do not come "remotely close" to what is needed to overturn an arbitration decision in federal court. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packers-Darnell-Savage-Jr-Jersey/ . Deulofeu injured a muscle in his right leg in Evertons 4-1 win over Fulham in the English Premier League on Saturday. Barcelona says that its team doctors will "co-ordinate" with Evertons medical staff as Deulofeu recovers. Clay Matthews Youth Jersey .35 million, one-year contract that avoided salary arbitration. Plouffe batted .254 with 14 home runs and 52 RBIs in 477 at-bats last season, his second as a regular in the lineup. Reggie White Packers Jersey . Sulaiman, 44, was chosen unanimously Tuesday in a vote by the leadership, the World Boxing Council said. Sulaiman becomes the sixth president of the organization.WOBURN, England -- In the 1840s, Duchess Anna Maria, wife of the 7th Duke of Bedford and resident of Woburn Abbey, thought there was something missing between lunch and dinner. She was feeling peckish, so she invented afternoon tea.Charley Hull, on the other hand, would have gone to Five Guys.There, in one restaurant choice, you have the run-up to this weeks Ricoh Womens British Open at Woburn Golf Club in microcosm: In a quaint corner of England that resonates with history, heritage and tradition, we have a tournament poster girl who is unapologetically part of the selfie generation.Her image is on billboards throughout the towns of Woburn and nearby Milton Keynes. Photos of her line the roads to the golf course and are pinned in every corner of the clubhouse.Everywhere she looks this week, Charley Hull sees herself. One hundred and sixty years ago, the Duchess no doubt had a similar experience, although her images were rendered in oil paint and displayed in gilt frames along gallery walls. She would have tilted her head, perhaps nodded and finally offered a measured appraisal. In contrast, when Hull saw a new poster of herself in the media center, she raised a jeweled eyebrow, said cool and took a photo of it.This is Britain 2016, and for womens golf in the country, she is the breath of fresh air it has badly needed for a very long time.Its not a criticism of Laura Davies, Catriona Matthew and Karen Stupples -- who have shouldered the burden of British expectation throughout the last 16 years -- but of the generations who followed them and have failed to generate interest or results.That Davies and Matthew continue to contend is to their eternal credit, but in modern day major championship golf -- when teenagers are regularly the winners -- it was as if Britain never got the memo and kept sending mom to the end-of-the-year prom.Hull changes all of that. For one thing she is the sort of character who everyone naturally refers to by her given name. For another, if she went to the prom you can guarantee there would be a story to tell afterward.Remember when she defeated Paula Creamer in the Solheim Cup singles back in 2013? Well, not so much defeated as thrashed 5 and 4. Afterwards Hull asked Creamer to sign a ball for her best friend James Northern, a huge fan of the American. It was classic Charley: carefree, happy-go-lucky, blissfully unaware that she was doing something out of the ordinary.Northern, Hull revealed ahead of Thursdays first round, has one-up on her this week because he won his club championship on Sunday.He went on a pub crawl with the trophy, she laughed, and he lost it. He actually lost a trophy that is 120 years old. They found the lid behind the bar and another bit in the hole on the 18th green.All of this is related in breezy style. Its almost as if she is playing a major championship on her home course.Hang on, she is. She really is and, for all the goofiness, Hull is no fool. Shes aware that playing in her backyard presents problemms as well as benefits and has told most of her friends to stay away.ddddddddddddI just feel like my friends are my friends outside of golf and I dont want them asking, why did you do this or why did you do that, she explained. James is a golfer so he can come. He keeps me calm and relaxed and stuff.Her family have also been given limits.My sister doesnt know much about golf, she laughed. If Ive had a bad round theyre like, well, I could have easily holed that, and Im like, just be quiet.It will be more difficult to contain the excitement of the Woburn club members however. She refers to them as an extended family who has known her since she was 11 years old, and yet their nervous expectation hangs over her with every well-meant question and message of good luck.Well, I feel like there is pressure on me this week, which is a bit annoying, she said, less in a mood of genuine irritation than another example of simple honesty. But at the end of the day its my home course and its great to have the event here.Curiously, for all her familiarity with the club, the local knowledge doesnt necessarily extend to the Marquess layout itself.Yeah, players have been asking me about the course and I was like, well, I play the other courses (the Duchess and Dukes) more. Ive played them hundreds and hundreds of times. Ive probably played this one only about 30. The other two are super-tight, this one is quite American.The measured approach is further proof that the bubbly impression is not the total picture because she possesses a sharp golf brain and has been wary of playing the course in conditions that bear little resemblance to this weeks.When Im with my friends I play off the back tees, she explained. I play it a lot further back than this weeks set-up. Some holes I hit driver and now I dont even need 3-wood with a bit more run. Also its been wet for so long and that makes it a different course. Ive known this all year so Ive stayed away.If this week is a highlight, so too is Augusts Olympic Games where she will join Matthew, Justin Rose and Danny Willett as part of Team Great Britain.Im really buzzing for Rio, she said. This is my seventh week going at it full blast in the gym, I want to be really fit for this spell of the season. Ive watched quite a bit of it on TV over the years. I think its pretty cool and Im looking forward to seeing Jessica Ennis [track and field] in the Olympic village. I think shes brilliant at what she does. Shes proper fit, really physically strong.She has none of the fears of the Zika virus which have prompted many prominent men to forego selection. Im not going to be having kids until Im older, no need to be worried about that, I think.Hull is like every other young golfer. She played her home course time and time again, telling herself the next putt was to win the British Open.On Sunday afternoon, it might be. ' ' '