When Braves baserunners Chipper Jones and Michael Bourn both found themselves near the bag at second during a rundown, it looked like the sort of mistake that plagues a team on its way to wasting a chance to make the playoffs. Seconds later, when Bourn wound up scoring an odd-as-can-be run on the play, he was greeted by laughter and high-fives in the dugout. "A little crazy way to add on a run in the ninth," Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez said, "but we'll take it right now." Yes, this was a game the Braves needed badly. Jones, Dan Uggla and others knocked around Stephen Strasburg a bit in a three-run first inning, and Atlanta beat the Washington Nationals 7-4 Friday night to increase its lead in the NL wild-card standings to three games. Read more: http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=310923120&teams=atlanta-braves-vs-washington-nationals
