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MIAMI -- Trying to gain ground in the wild-card race, the Miami Marlins lost their third straight following a three-game winning streak.Adonis Garcia hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Marlins 3-2 Friday night.This is really typical of the way we have played, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. We catch a little stretch where we win three in a row and you feel like you have a little bit of momentum, and then you lose three in a row. I think thats really been the story of our season.Miami lost for the fifth time in eight games and dropped 5 1/2 games back for the second NL wild card pending San Franciscos game at San Diego.Atlanta won its season-high seventh straight.Freddie Freeman extended his hitting streak to 27 games with a sixth-inning double. Atlantas winning streak is its longest since it won nine in a row from June 27-July 5, 2014.Were a team that has to be reckoned with right now, Braves interim manager Brian Snitker said. I guarantee you teams dont want to play us.With the score 2-2, Emilio Bonifacio singled with one out off A.J. Ramos, stole his first base this season, took third on catcher J.T. Realmutos throwing error and came home on Garcias single to center.Brandon Cuniff (2-0) struck out two of three batters in a hitless eighth, and Mauricio Cabrera threw a hitless ninth for his sixth save in seven chances with the Braves. Tyler Flowers threw out pinch-runner Yefri Perez trying to steal second for the second out, and left fielder Mallex Smith made a game-ending diving catch on Justin Bours liner.Flowers drove in two runs for Atlanta and Martin Prado also drove in two for Miami, which has dropped three straight.Braves left fielder Matt Kemp, who turned 32, was ejected in the third inning by plate umpire Adam Hamari. And Braves interim manager Brian Snitker also was tossed. Kemp and Snitker argued with Hamari after the top of the third following a strikeout by Kemp and a bases-loaded flyout by Nick Markakis.The manager getting ejected gives you so much motivation, Garcia said through a translator. That lifted everyones emotions and made the team play better.Prado, who entered the game hitting an NL-best .377 with runners in scoring position, struck out with Ichiro Suzuki stranded at second in the bottom of the eighth.Atlantas Matt Wisler allowed two runs, two hits and three walks in six innings. Miamis Andrew Cashner gave up one run, three hits and three walks in six innings.Obviously you feel like youre going to put some runs on the board when you get a couple in the first, Mattingly said. We have seen their guy a couple of times and from there they make adjustments and were not able to.UP NEXTComing off his first big league win, RHP Aaron Blair (1-6) starts for the Braves on Saturday. 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Wholesale Custom Kings Shirts . -- Kyrie Irvings last-minute 3-pointer helped seal another victory for Cleveland -- and the Cavaliers longest winning streak since LeBron James left. ST. LOUIS -- Jake Allen did not get much of a chance to celebrate his win in the season-opener for the St. Louis Blues.Less than 24 hours after Allen earned the victory in the Blues 5-2 triumph over the Blackhawks on Wednesday night in Chicago, he will be back in goal when the Blues return home Thursday night to host the Minnesota Wild.Its a great start, still a long ways to go, but heading in the right direction, Allen said. For us to come out on top in the first game, get momentum and play tomorrow (Thursday) in our home opener, it was huge for us.Allen, taking over as the Blues number-one goalie this season after Brian Elliott was traded to Calgary, faced only 19 shots in the win in Chicago, 10 of which came in the third period. It was the first time the Blues had limited the Blackhawks to less than 20 shots in Chicago since a 17-shot game on Feb. 25, 2007.The Blues offense was led by Vladimir Tarasenko, who had two goals and an assist. His first goal was one of three power-play goals by the Blues, the first time they had done that in a game in Chicago since 2004.Kevin Shattenkirk and Paul Stastny also finished with three point nights, each scoring a power-play goal and adding two assists.It was the kind of game coach Ken Hitchcock hopes to see often this season.Were looking forward to the emergence of some of these younger guys, Hitchcock said. Its going to be fun to see. We know there is going to be some rough water, but there also is a ton of growth here.ddddddddddddThursday nights game will be the season-opener for the Wild, whose biggest offseason change was bringing in a new coach, Bruce Boudreau, who was fired after coaching at Anaheim for five years.Boudreaus first task is to try to get the Wild back into the playoffs, after they finished fifth last year in the Central Division and failed to advance to the postseason for the first time in five years.The Wild were 2/3 in the pre-season as they began learning and adapting to Boudreaus system.Those kind of coaches dont come available that often, and we were able to get him and we were able to get him pretty quick, forward Jason Pominville told NHL.com. Hes been around, won a lot of games and usually has a good offensive team. As a player, he was an offensive guy, so he should bring some good ideas to our group.One newcomer who could provide an offensive boost is forward Teemu Pulkkinen, 24, who was claimed off waivers from Detroit on Tuesday. He scored 11 goals in 67 games the last two seasons for the Red Wings.Hes played a top-six role at every level, Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher told NHL.com. It remains to be seen whether he can do it at the NHL level, but thats the opportunity wed like to give him, and wed certainly like to see if he can do it. ' ' '