Jair Jurrjens returned from the DL to throw a gem and snap Boston's five-game win streak while he was at it.
Atlanta (38-32, 23-15 away) opened its last interleague series at Fenway Park with a 4-1 win tonight against Boston (36-34, 17-20) after a one hour and 28 minute rain delay.
Jurrjens (1-2) went 7.2 innings, allowing one earned run on three hits with four strikeouts and a walk.
Will Middlebrooks (starting for the second consecutive game thank you very much) doubled and scored on Daniel Nava's double in the eighth for the Red Sox' only run. Chad Durbin came in for Jurrjens and retired Dustin Pedroia (the potential tying run) to end the inning.
Braves closer Craig Kimbrel got a 1-2-3 ninth with a strikeout to record his 21st save of the season.
In what has been a poor first half for him, Jon Lester (4-5) couldn't get the job done yet again. He went seven innings but allowed three earned runs on 10 hits with five strikeouts and a walk.
Atlanta scored twice in the fourth on Matt Diaz's groundout and Andrelton Simmons' RBI double.
Simmons added a sacrifice fly in the sixth and Freddie Freeman (2 hits) provided an insurance run with an RBI single in the ninth.
Martin Prado and Jason Heyward (2 runs) each had three hits for the Braves while Brian McCann had two.
Franklin Morales (0-1) gets his second start for Boston tomorrow night (7:15 p.m., Fox), against Randall Delgado (4-7).
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