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Atlanta takes third consecutive series win as bats come alive in Milwaukee.

Derek Lowe began waving emphatically as soon as he saw where Jason Kendall's shot was going. Lowe's gestures to Nate McLouth were meaningless, but the center fielder made the play all the same. Casey Kotchman hit a three-run homer and McLouth made a pair of great catches in the sixth when Lowe began to tire, lifting the surging Atlanta Braves to a 10-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. 'I was waving him over there, I had the perfect angle of it,' Lowe said.

Former IBF welterweight and WBC light-middleweight world champion Vernon Forrest is shot dead during an attempted robbery in Atlanta.

Casey Kotchman hit a three-run homer and Nate McLouth made a pair of great catches in center when starter Derek Lowe began to tire, lifting the surging Atlanta Braves to a 10-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. Kotchman's deep drive to right off Braden Looper in the sixth was the difference for Atlanta, which has won eight of 11 since the All-Star break.

Joe Torre says the team will face some 'uncomfortable' pitching matchups during their week-long road trip. The Dodgers open against St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter. The Dodgers open a seven-game trip tonight in St. Louis before heading to Atlanta. And Manager Joe Torre said the two series figure to provide a good challenge for his team.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Former world boxing champion Vernon Forrest was shot dead in Atlanta, the victim of an apparent robbery, city authorities and local media said on Sunday.

Denver WR Brandon Marshall is still providing plenty of drama in Denver. The Pro Bowler missed all of the team's minicamps, the voluntary ones while rehabbing from hip surgery and the mandatory one in protest over his contract ($2.2 million this season) and what he feels was a misdiagnosis of his hip injury by the team's medical staff. He insisted that owner Pat Bowlen told him in a private meeting that he would honor his trade request, but new coach Josh McDaniels isn't about to let a second superstar force his way out of town before he's even coached his first game. So, Marshall has said he'll report to Broncos headquarters on Monday along with the other players coming off injuries rather than risk a nearly $16,000 daily fine for skipping training camp workouts. This will be his first chance to practice under the team's new coaching staff. Hanging over Marshall's head, however, is an Aug. 13 trial date in Atlanta on a misdemeanor battery charge. A conviction could expose him to a sus

- Right fielder Nate Schierholtz got a day off Sunday. The deep, colorful and ugly bruise that he sports on his left leg from a losing battle with the outfield fence in Atlanta was very sore. Clearly, though, the Giants cannot afford to sit Schierholtz too...

Vernon Forrest, a former boxing champion who didn't rise to prominence until late in his career but when he did used his popularity to further his charitable causes, was shot and killed in Atlanta in an apparent robbery on Saturday, police said.

Casey Kotchman went 2-for-4 with a three-run homer and scored three times, as the Atlanta Braves made short work of the Milwaukee Brewers, 10-2, in the rubber match of a three-game set.