ATLANTA -- When Logan Gilbert fell into a bases-loaded jam with no outs in the first inning on Friday night, there was a here-we-go-again sense brewing at Truist Park.

Yet Gilbert remarkably worked out of it with only one run surrendered via a sacrifice fly, then proceeded to go on cruise control the rest of the way, working through the sixth inning and slicing his splitter through the Braves’ lineup for each of his seven strikeouts.

The problem, however, was that for as good as Gilbert was, Atlanta’s Chris Sale was even better.

Seattle struck out nine times against the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner and didn’t score until after he departed, a formula that eventually sunk the club to a 4-1 loss after Atlanta ambushed Gabe Speier for three runs in the eighth on just 1

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