ATLANTA (AP) a Jason Heyward, Justin Upton and Dan Uggla homered in the eighth inning, and Juan Francisco struck a couple of solo shots early in the day in the game to greatly help the Atlanta Braves gain their 10th immediately with a 6-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Atlanta's 10-game winning streak is its longest since the team won 15 right from April 15-May 2, 2000. The Braves are 12-1 and down to their most readily useful start since they started the 1994 season 13-1. Eric O'Flaherty (3-0) permitted one hit and struck out two in a eighth for the win in relief. Heyward's second homer, Upton's eighth and Uggla's third were solo images off Kelvin Herrera (1-1), who gave up three hits, four works and one walk in two-thirds of an inning. The Braves have outhomered opponents 25-7 and outscored opponents 68-25 to find the best function differential in the majors. Heyward hit the go-ahead homer in the eighth by having an opposite-field shot to the left-field seats before Upton and Uggla followed to create it 5-2. After Francisco stepped to chase Herrera, Chris Johnson followed by having an RBI individual off Aaron Crow that obtained pinch-runner Jordan Schafer from second. Luis Avilan noted the initial out from the ninth before appearing to injure his left hamstring. Avilan limped slowly off the field with the help of instructor Jim Lovell and manager Fredi Gonzalez before getting carted off the field. The Royals were finished off by closer Craig Kimbrel by striking out pinch-hitter Billy Butler, stopping an single to Alex Gordon and retiring Alcides Escobar on a groundout. It absolutely was a non-save situation for Kimbrel. The Royals, who've lost three of four, brought 2-1 in the fourth when Salvador Perez reached on Francisco's throwing mistake, moved to second on Mike Moustakas' single and scored on Jeff Francoeur's RBI single. With the exception of Francisco, who struck his second homer to make it 1-0 in the second and his third to tie it at 2 in the seventh, the Braves were not able to do much against Kansas City beginning pitcher Jeremy Guthrie. Atlanta's first five batters were a mixed 0 for 14 with one walk and five strikeouts against Guthrie, who gave up five hits, two runs and one walk with six strikeouts in seven innings. Guthrie was trying to win his eighth straight decision dating back to last August. It was tied by chris Getz at 1 in the 3rd off Braves beginning Kris Medlen. Getz, Iowa City's No. 8 player, homered for the first time in very nearly four years. Medlen, who had been attempting to improve to 17-3 in his career as a starter, allowed six hits and two runs a' one gained a' without guides and five strikeouts in eight innings. Notes: The Braves held a minute of silence prior to the game for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday. ... coaches, administrators and people for both groups used No. 42 on the jerseys to respect Jackie Robinson. ... Errors were committed three by atlanta. ... Getz last homered on July 19, 2009, when he played for the Chicago White Sox. He went deeply off Guthrie, who was selling for Baltimore. ... His first game was played by Francoeur, a former Braves RF at Turner Field with Kansas City. He'd an outfield help and went 2 for 4 having an RBI. ... Braves 1B Freddie Freeman said prior to the game that his right oblique is healing and that he needs in the future off the DL as scheduled on April 22 at Colorado. ... A rehab assignment was begun by braves SS Paul Janish Monday at Triple-A Gwinnett.
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