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Brewers, Braves conclude series at Turner Field

May 5, 2011 - 2:37 PM (Sports Network) - Shaun Marcum can continue an early-season run of success tonight when his Milwaukee Brewers invade Turner Field to wrap up a weather- altered four-game series with the host Atlanta Braves.

The teams opened the series on Monday before a postponement Tuesday led to a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday. Atlanta won both games by scores of 8-3 and 8-0 in the nightcap.

Tim Hudson tossed a one-hit shutout in the late game, striking out six and walking one for the 24th complete game and 12th shutout of his career.

Nate McLouth went deep and Freddie Freeman and Eric Hinske added two RBI apiece for Atlanta, which has won four straight.

Zack Greinke (0-1) took the loss in his first appearance of the season after spending time on the disabled list with a broken left rib. Greinke lasted four innings and allowed five runs -- four earned -- on five hits and one walk while fanning six to give the Brewers their fifth consecutive loss.

In the opener, Martin Prado drove in three runs, while Chipper Jones and Brian McCann each plated two for the Braves.

Tommy Hanson (4-3) earned the win in the make-up of Tuesday night's rainout, allowing just two runs and striking out seven over six innings.

Marco Estrada (1-1) allowed seven runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings to suffer the loss.

Prince Fielder belted his seventh home run of the season, while Ryan Braun, who had reached base safely in Milwaukee's first 28 games this season, went 0- for-4.

Marcum, who came to Milwaukee in an offseason trade with the Toronto Blue Jays, opened his NL stint with a 4-2 loss at Cincinnati on April 2.

He's rebounded for three wins and a pair of no-decisions in five subsequent starts, including a seven-inning gem at Houston on April 29 in which he scattered three hits and struck out six in a 5-0 win.

He's pitched at least six innings in five straight starts and allowed three earned runs or less in the last four, gradually trimming his earned run average to a stingy 2.21 through 36 2/3 innings.

His initial career start against Atlanta resulted in his first 2011 win on April 7, when he gave up five hits and two runs in six innings of a 4-2 triumph.

For the Braves, 24-year-old right-hander Brandon Beachy makes his seventh start of the season and just the 10th of his major-league career.

Beachy opened the 2011 campaign against the Brewers and surrendered four hits and a run over six innings in a game Atlanta ultimately won, 2-1.

He's 1-1 with three more no-decisions in five starts since, allowing just four runs in eight hits in 19 innings over the last three against Los Angeles, San Francisco and St. Louis.

In 51 1/3 combined innings, including three starts at the end of 2010, Beachy has held opposing hitters to a .221 batting average while striking out 51 and allowing 42 hits.

He has never won at Turner Field.

Atlanta has won four of its seven matchups with the Braves this season.