Jays’ bats hide until they’re rid of Fried

The view from Deep Left Field on the Blue Jays’s 4-1 win in Atlanta on Wednesday:

The Blue Jays were thrilled to see the last of Max Fried on Wednesday night. They were tied up in knots by the leftyhander who faced the minimum number of batters through five innings, at one point retiring 11 in a row and 13 of 14.

Fried was making just his second start since coming off the injured list, where he had spent three weeks recovering from a hamstring strain, so despite his dominance he was limited to just six innings of work and left having allowed just two hits, with the game tied 1-1.

Fried was replaced by Luke Jackson to start the seventh inning, and Toronto wasted no time. Teoscar Hernandez stepped up to the dish and blasted Jackson’s first pitch over the wall in centre field, giving the Blue Jays the lead.

Hernandez took Josh Tomlin deep to left in the ninth for some insurance. The slugger wound up hitting 868 feet of home runs in the game.

Blue Jays 4 Braves 1

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> Take it, Tyler: Tyler Chatwood faced the toughest part of the Atlanta lineup — Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman and Marcell Ozuna — for the second straight game and was all but untouchable.

Chatwood took the mound in the eighth inning with his team ahead by one run and got Acuna to fly to short left field on his first pitch before striking out Freeman and Ozuna. He needed 11 pitches, one fewer than the previous night.

With almost half the expected bullpen on the injured list, the Jays have needed quality work out of Chatwood and he has exceeded expectations, allowing one run over a dozen outings.

> On the paths: The Jays started the game as their own worst enemies on the bases, losing a runner unnecessarily in each of the first two innings.

Bo Bichette, the second batter of the game, hit a sinking liner to right field that skipped past Acuna in right field. Bichette took a few hard steps toward second base, but Acuna recovered quickly and fired to first to erase the Jays’ shortstop as he scrambled back to the bag.

In the second, Hernandez drew a leadoff walk and chose the wrong time to try to steal a base. With the lefty staring right at him, Hernandez took off. Fried had time to throw behind him.

In the sixth inning, Cavan Biggio took off with pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu at the plate facing an 2-2 count. Biggio guessed right — with Fried throwing a 74 miles-per-hour curveball and was safe at second base without a throw.

He scored easily on a Marcus Semien double.