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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Braves have placed struggling closer Arodys Vizcaino on the 15-day disabled list with a right oblique strain.Vizcaino left Friday nights 11-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies after throwing three pitches in the ninth. It was his first appearance since he missed four straight games with an infection on his right elbow.Interim Braves manager Brian Snitker indicated that Jim Johnson, who had 101 saves for the Baltimore Orioles from 2012-13, will get the first chance to close. Snitker also might use rookie Mauricio Cabrera.Reliever Eric OFlaherty was reinstated from the disabled list to take Vizcainos spot on the roster.The team doesnt know how long Vizcaino will be sidelined.Its just time-consuming, Snitker said. Youve got to calm everything down until you dont feel anything before you start throwing again or you end up really screwing things up. Youve just got be patient wanting to get back and get everything good again.Vizcainos hold on the job was tenuous before his latest injury. Though hes converted 19 of 23 save chances since last season, Vizcaino has a 5.11 ERA with 14 walks in his last 15 games.Vizcaino went 1-0 with a 1.52 ERA with seven walks in his first 23 games.Snitker said the Braves, who own baseballs worst record, view Vizcaino as a long-term solution in the back of their bullpen.I talked to him a few weeks ago, Snitker said. Hes a huge part of what were trying to do here. Hes a young kid who cares a lot. What he brings is going to be valuable to the Atlanta Braves for a long time.Vizcaino was suspended for the first 80 games last season after testing positive for Stanozolol, a performance-enhancing drug. He had elbow ligament reconstructive surgery and missed the 2012 and 13 seasons.OFlaherty had a 1.50 ERA with no walks and eight strikeouts in six rehab appearances. Taylor Rapp Rams Jersey . P.A. 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Sam Gagner and Brandon Saad got great results putting those lessons into practice Friday night.Gagner and Saad each scored twice in the first period as the Blue Jackets beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-0.Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 35 shots for his 14th career shutout, while the offense provided a season-high in support by converting rebounds into goals.Gagner scored midway through the first period, cleaning up Scott Hartnells missed shot for his first goal since signing with the Blue Jackets as a free agent.Saad, who made it 2-0 just 21 seconds later, then swatted in his own rebound with 6:10 left for his 10th career multi-goal game and first with the Blue Jackets. Gagner followed up his own miss on the power play 20 seconds later.Thats usually where games are kind of decided, if youre willing to take a few beatings to get to the front of the net and also make sure no one is around yours, Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said.Foligno had three assists to match his career high and tie the team record for assists in a period. Alexander Wennberg had assists on Saad and Gagners second goals.The Blue Jackets finished their four-game West Coast trip with five points.I thought we built as we went along, Gagner said. Good feeling for us and we got to keep pushing forward.Ducks goalie John Gibson made 28 saves before being replaced by Dustin Tokarski midway through the third period. Tokarski stopped all five shots he faced.Anaheim, shut out for the first time this season and two days after getting a season-high six goals against Nashvillle, had recorded at least a point in each of its previous four games.ddddddddddddWe didnt accomplish anything tonight, said Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf, who returned after missing the win over Nashville with an upper-body injury. That was from start to finish. When you give up four goals in the first period, youre just trying to battle and get something out of it.On Saads first goal of the game, he unleashed a wrist shot from the high slot that hit the post and careened in. Saad knew it was a goal and started celebrating immediately, but the officials needed a video review to confirm it.The game was surprisingly heated, with Blue Jackets RW Josh Anderson and Ducks D Josh Manson fighting 1:50 into the first period.Foligno bowled over Gibson in the second period, with the goaltender taking visible offense to the collision. Anderson lost his footing and plowed into Gibson in the third period, leading to more jawing.We think that defines a game, it defines who you are as a team as far as how you protect your blue and how you try to get into the opposing teams blue, Tortorella said. Were not trying to hit the goalie. Were trying to do it the right way.Game notes The Blue Jackets scored four goals in a period for the 14th time in franchise history, having last done so against Chicago in March 2015. ... After scoring three power-play goals against Nashville on Wednesday, the Ducks were 0 for 4 with the man-advantage.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Host Dallas on Monday night.Ducks: At Los Angeles on Monday night. ' ' '