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7:35 pm EDT Fri Apr 30, 2010

It’s been hard enough for Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox to observe his team playing so poorly. Now, he’s watching his players get hurt. Coming off their worst trip of seven or more games in 61 years, the Braves look to avoid their first 10-game slide in four seasons Friday when they face the slumping Houston Astros. Atlanta (8-14) returns to Turner Field following an 0-7 trip that ended with Thursday’s 10-4 loss to St. Louis. It is the Braves’ longest winless trip of at least this length since the team was based in Boston and dropped eight in a row in September 1949. In addition to the grind of losing, the Braves lost starter Jair Jurrjens to a strained left hamstring after one inning Thursday, and shortstop Yunel Escobar left the game with a strained left groin muscle. Escobar said through a translator that he could be out for a few games.

It also might be a good thing for Atlanta that Tommy Hanson is getting the ball. The 23-year-old right-hander has the lowest ERA among Braves starters and is looking to build off a solid outing. Hanson had a season-high eight strikeouts and allowed one run in five innings of a rain-shortened, 1-0 loss to the New York Mets on Sunday. Hanson took another hard-luck loss in his only career appearance against the Astros, a 2-1 defeat in Houston on Sept. 9. After pitching eight innings of five-hit ball, Hanson was denied the victory after Miguel Tejada delivered a game-winning, two-run single in the ninth off reliever Rafael Soriano. While Hanson tries to help Atlanta win its first game in 10 days, the Astros are looking to get back on track after losing three straight at home to Cincinnati.