Braves rookie pitcher Williams Perez was outstanding in his start against the Giants on Saturday. Perez twirled seven shutout innings, striking out three batters and allowing just four hits. He did walk four, but was able to avoid any serious damage to pick up his first major-league victory, as the Braves were winners 8-0.
"He's been impressive," manager Fredi Gonzalez said, per MLB.com. "So we'll keep running him out there. If he keeps providing these kinds of outings for us, he'll be fine."
Perez threw 105 pitches with 63 of them being strikes. The impressive outing lowered his ERA to 2.66, as he's now allowed just two earned runs over his last 18 innings.
"He pitches with his eyes and sees what is going on," Gonzalez said. "He's got pretty good stuff. He's got the sinker that gets a lot of ground balls and today we saw that."
Perez (1-0) will look to build on this great start his next time out, which is scheduled to be Friday at home against the Pirates.