ATLANTA (AP) Freddie Freeman’s tiebreaking home run moved the Atlanta Braves closer to first place – just in time for a little boost from the front office a day before the trade deadline.Freeman hit a go-ahead homer in the third inning Jhoulys Chacin Jersey , Ronald Acuna Jr. also went deep and the Braves beat the Miami Marlins 5-3 on Monday night to move a half-game behind first-place Philadelphia in the NL East.Following the game, the Braves announced they had acquired outfielder Adam Duvall from the Cincinnati Reds for three players who had been with Triple-A Gwinnett: right-handers Lucas Sims and Matt Wisler and outfielder Preston Tucker.”It’s nice to be adding players instead of subtracting like we’ve done the last few years,” Freeman said.Before adding Duvall, the Braves acquired veteran relievers Brad Brach and Jonny Venters.With Brach making his Atlanta debut with a scoreless eighth, four relievers combined for four scoreless innings.”That was really big because they were under some duress,” said Braves manager Brian Snitker. ”… Anytime you add that depth to your bullpen, it’s going to help.”Brian Anderson’s two-run homer off Julio Teheran (8-7) in the first gave Miami a lead Wei-Yin Chen (3-8) couldn’t hold.The Braves pulled even in the second when Tyler Flowers walked, moved to third on Johan Camargo’s double and scored on Ender Inciarte’s fly ball. Camargo scored on Teheran’s two-out single up the middle.Freeman’s homer, his 18th Jeremy Jeffress Jersey , in the third gave Atlanta the lead . Flowers walked and scored from first on another double to left by Camargo.After J.T. Realmuto’s run-scoring double in the fifth cut Atlanta’s lead to 4-3, Acuna led off the bottom of the inning with his 10th homer , just over the reach of Magneuris Sierra in center field.A.J. Minter pitched the ninth for his sixth save in six chances.Chen’s road struggles continued as he allowed five runs in five innings.Chen has a 10.27 ERA in nine road starts. It’s a dramatic contrast to his 2.18 mark in eight home starts. According to figures from Elias Sports Bureau, the 8.09 gap between Chen’s home and road ERA was the highest for any pitcher in the majors with five or more home and road starts.”He just doesn’t seem the same on the road,” said Marlins manager Don Mattingly. ”Again, not sure why.”Teheran needed 98 pitches to pitch five innings. He allowed three runs on four hits and four walks.Brach, acquired from Baltimore on Sunday in exchange for international bonus pool allotment, made his Atlanta debut by giving up one hit in a scoreless eighth.TRAINER’S ROOMBraves: LHP Sam Freeman was placed on the 10-day disabled list, retroactive to Sunday Jesus Aguilar Jersey , with left shoulder inflammation. The move cleared a spot on the active roster for Brach.STAYING CLOSEAnderson said it was another case of the Marlins losing a competitive game.”We’ve done a really good job of battling in these games and fighting and keeping them close,” he said. ”… We’re getting to their starters, getting them out of the game and getting deep in the bullpen. We’ve just got to finish them off.”ALLARD COMING UPThe Braves will call up left-hander Kolby Allard to start Tuesday night’s game against Miami. It will be the major league debut for Allard, 20, a first-round pick in 2015 who was 6-4 with a 2.80 ERA for Triple-A Gwinnett this season.Snitker said the move will give his other starters an additional day of rest, though Snitker wouldn’t commit to a strict six-man rotation. Left-hander Sean Newcomb threw a career-high 134 pitches while coming within one out of a no-hitter in Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.Snitker said Newcomb likely will need ”an extra day or two” before his next start.Newcomb apologized in a team meeting before the game for racist, homophobic and sexist tweets he sent as a teenager. The tweets resurfaced after Sunday’s game.ON DECKMarlins: RHP Dan Straily (4-4, 4.07 ERA) will look for his third win over Atlanta this season in Tuesday’s night’s game. He is 4-2 with a 4.35 ERA in eight career starts against Atlanta, including 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA this season.Braves: Allard has a 2.96 ERA in 64 career minor league starts. He spent the full 2017 season with Double-A Mississippi http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-ryan-braun-jersey , where he had a 3.18 ERA.— CHICAGO (AP) — Manager Joe Maddon and the Chicago Cubs insist they still have plenty left to make another deep run in the postseason.What they don’t have is room for error.The Cubs will host the Colorado Rockies in the wild-card game on Tuesday after both teams lost tiebreaker games for their division championships.“We’re not dead in the water,” Maddon said.The Cubs will send ace Jon Lester (18-6, 3.32 ERA) to the mound, hoping to keep their season going after a 3-1 loss to Milwaukee for the NL Central championship at Wrigley Field on Monday.They’ll be back at the old ballpark again, trying to eliminate Colorado after the Rockies dropped a tiebreaker for the NL West to the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-2. Kyle Freeland (17-7, 2.85) starts for the Rockies, and the winner gets Milwaukee in the best-of-five Division Series starting Thursday at Miller Park.Colorado and the Cubs split six games this year, each scoring 33 runs. They haven’t faced each other since early May.NL home run champion Nolan Arenado and the Rockies (91-72) had won nine of 10 before getting shut down by rookie Walker Buehler in a 5-2 loss on Monday. Colorado has never won its division.“Excited about it,” manager Bud Black said. “It’s going to be a great environment tomorrow at Wrigley. Their manager and I go way back. This team enjoys playing on the big stage.”Charlie Blackmon Travis Shaw Jersey , who had two of Colorado’s four hits Monday, called it “an amazing opportunity.”“The fact of the matter is we have a chance to win the World Series,” he added.The Cubs (95-68) reached the playoffs for a franchise-record fourth straight year and had a third consecutive division championship in sight, only to be pushed aside by the surging Brewers.But the Cubs are also a tough team to keep down.They have three straight appearances in the NL Championship Series and a World Series championship in 2016 that ended a 108-year drought. They’re no strangers to tight spots and they find themselves in another one, after Milwaukee caught them down the regular-season stretch.The Brewers won four of six against Chicago in September to help forge the tiebreaker game after the Cubs went from trailing them by 4 1/2 games in the division to leading by five. Milwaukee pulled even on the final weekend.The Cubs then managed just three hits Monday against Jhoulys Chacin and four relievers. They were also held to one run or less for the 39th time even though they ranked fourth in the National League in scoring.“We have another opportunity,” Maddon said. “I’ve been involved with wild card teams that have gone all the way. It happens.”Maddon was the Los Angeles Angels’ bench coach in 2002 when they won the World Series as a wild card. And the Cubs have certainly won their share of elimination games the past four seasons.They beat Pittsburgh in the wild card-game in 2015 after finishing third in the division behind St. Louis and the Pirates. In 2016, they rallied from 3-1 down in the World Series and won Game 7 at Cleveland to bring home the first championship in 108 years. And they beat Washington in a grueling Division Series last year, winning Game 5 on the road.“This is nothing new to us,” outfielder Jason Heyward said.They feel confident with Lester Paul Molitor Jersey , who will become the first pitcher to start two wild-card games. He gave up six runs to the Royals in 2014 while with Oakland in a 9-8, 12-inning loss.Lester was 6-1 with a 1.71 ERA in his final eight starts. He has been particularly stingy in the postseason throughout his career, going 9-7 with a 2.55 ERA in 25 games and 21 starts.The Cubs endured a long list of injuries and players not performing the way they anticipated, whether it was Yu Darvish making just eight starts after signing a $126 million contract or Kris Bryant making two trips to the disabled list because of inflammation in his left shoulder.Anthony Rizzo got off to a slow start before going on a tear. Willson Contreras slumped after the All-Star break.Nothing has come easily. There were difficulties along the way. And there’s some disappointment surrounding them even though they’re once again in the postseason.“It’s definitely a little different,” Rizzo said. “But that whole narrative switches (Tuesday) if we win the ballgame.”