"After Derek Lowe took a no-hitter to the seventh inning and Eric O'Flaherty bailed him out of a bases-loaded jam, it was up to Jonny Venters and Craig Kimbrel to get the Braves through the last two innings.
Kimbrel blew a two-run lead in the ninth and the Braves had to go to extra innings (again) before pulling out a 3-2 win against the Florida Marlins at Sun Life Stadium on Wednesday night.
Freddie Freeman hit the go-ahead single in the 10th inning, and Braves reliever Scott Linebrink struck out Gaby Sanchez with two on and two out in the bottom of the inning for his first save since July 3, 2009.
Freeman's winning RBI came after a one-out walk by Chipper Jones and a Brian McCann single.
"We let it get away there in the ninth," McCann said after the Braves' 13th extra-innings game of the season and ninth in the past 25 games. "We fought back. We were resilient tonight."
The Braves will try to complete a sweep of the sputtering Marlins, who are 1-9 in their past 10 games and have scored two runs or fewer in four of their past five."