ATLANTA (AP) – Curt Schilling was missing his overpowering stuff. Brian McCann and the Braves sure took advantage of it.

McCann homered and drove in four runs off Schilling, who endured his first strikeout-free start since 1993 in Atlanta’s 9-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.

Schilling was rocked for 10 hits and six runs in 4 1-3 innings, his second-shortest outing of the season. More telling, the 40-year-old right-hander failed to strike out anyone – the first time that’s happened in one of his starts since July 1, 1993.

Coco Crisp homered twice for the Red Sox, and J.D. Drew went deep for Boston’s other run. But McCann outdid them both, putting the Braves ahead for good with an RBI double in the fourth and chasing Schilling (6-4) the next inning.

With one out, Edgar Renteria and Chipper Jones hit consecutive singles to bring up Atlanta’s young catcher. McCann worked the count in his favor, then drove a 2-1 pitch into the seats just to the right of the 400-foot sign. The three-run homer put Atlanta ahead 6-1 and offset a trio of solo homers by the Red Sox, who sat one of their biggest offensive stars. With no designated hitter in the NL park, David Ortiz was limited to a pinch-hitting role.

Crisp had the first multihomer game of his career, the second of which ended the night for Atlanta starter Chuck James (6-6). But the left-hander lasted long enough for the win, giving up five hits and two runs in 5 1-3 innings.

James snapped a two-game skid and won for the first time in four starts.

Schilling has endured a lingering hangover from his near no-hitter at Oakland on June 7, which was broken up with two outs in the ninth. In his last two starts, he’s given up 19 hits and 11 earned runs in 9 1-3 innings.

The six runs allowed to the Braves were a season high for Schilling, while the stint of 4 1-3 innings was his shortest since opening day. In that one, he lasted only four innings at Kansas City for his briefest start since 2001.

Boston jumped ahead in the second on Crisp’s first homer of the night, a drive just inside the left-field pole. Atlanta tied it on Kelly Johnson’s sacrifice fly in the third and took control with two more runs in the fourth.

In addition to McCann’s RBI double, James helped the cause with a two-out, run-scoring single – silencing thousands of Red Sox fans in the sellout crowd of 47,562.

Scott Thorman added a two-run homer for the Braves in the seventh.

Notes: Schilling had made 348 starts since his last one without a strikeout. … McCann’s four RBIs were one off his career high. … The Braves used a radical infield shift when Ortiz pinch-hit in the eighth, with 3B Chipper Jones lining up in the shortstop position and everyone else to the right of the second-base bag. In fact, 2B Kelly Johnson was stationed in short right field. As it was, Ortiz popped out near the left-field line, with Jones making a long run for the catch. … Boston dropped to 8-5 in interleague play this season. The Braves improved to 4-6. … It rained hard in the top of the sixth, but tapered off by the bottom half without the game being interrupted.

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