ATLANTA -- Usually, getting to face the Arizona Diamondbacks while avoiding Zack Greinke is a reason to be thankful.

The Braves, who’d been feasting on opposing pitchers, were probably licking their chops at the thought of taking swings against Zack Godley, he of a 7.41 ERA, and Luke Weaver, who entered Thursday's game with a 5.17 ERA.

Come Thursday evening, however, the Braves were instead licking their wounds, as the D-backs’ unheralded duo allowed a mere three runs and nine hits over 11 innings, keying a series sweep at SunTrust Park.

The 4-1 series finale win was a nice way for the D-backs to close out the first stop on their 10-game road trip, offering confidence-boosting performances by both Godley and Weaver. The duo had much needed good turns following their previous starts against San Diego, where Godley was hit hard for six runs (all earned) in six innings, and Weaver suffered a tough 2-1 loss.

“I think in Zack’s case, it was the first inning that he got out of yesterday and only gave up two runs and had a little bit of damage control,” said D-backs manager Torey Lovullo, who is now 5-1 at SunTrust Park. “Those are things that we’re asking all of our guys to do. So it was a very nice outing for him pitching into the seventh inning after getting put through it early. Then Luke threw the ball extremely well. Outside of that one inning where he had a high pitch count, I thought it was an exceptional outing. We want each starter to build on one start to the next and continue to know that they set the tone for us.”

Weaver (1-1) secured the sweep, throwing five scoreless innings while allowing four hits and striking out a season-high nine batters. He set the tone by striking out the side in the first, a key shutdown inning after his teammates got him a 1-0 lead. The 1-2 changeup that struck out Braves leadoff man Ozzie Albies was crucial in doing so.

“That pitch has always been huge for me,” said Weaver, who has put up back-to-back quality starts. “When that’s going well, everything just feeds off of it. Just being able to master location with that really bringing in that differential of speeds, and seeing how they were reacting on it, a lot of stuff out front so the fastball was able to play well off of that.”

He kept Atlanta hitters off-balance all day. He threw 14 first-pitch strikes, mixing the fastball, cutter, curve and change. Of his nine K’s, all swinging, five of the punchouts came on fastballs, while two each came on cutters and changeups.

Atlanta never really threatened, despite the 1-0 score. The Braves got a runner as far as second base just once through the first five innings, with one out in the fourth, but Weaver responded, striking out the next two hitters before striking out the side in the fifth. Weaver has now whiffed 17 batters in his last two starts covering 11 1/3 innings, with only one base on balls. The D-backs nursed the 1-0 lead through six, then broke the game open with a three-spot in the seventh.

“I wouldn’t say it’s anything huge. I would say just trusting that you have the stuff, staying on the attack,” Weaver said. “Just fill the count early, throw a lot of strikes and then really being focused on putting those put-away pitches where you need to and not just wasting pitches. Having a purpose for every pitch, and when things are going well and things are flowing together it seems to happen more than not.”

Godley would not get a decision but similarly frustrated the Braves Wednesday, surviving a second-inning firestorm by getting a key strikeout, then a double play as part of retiring 12 straight, allowing the D-backs to forge a comeback.

Arizona seemed to make the big plays all series, especially late. Even though they went 1-for-22 over the final two games with runners in scoring position -- a .045 average -- they never got down. They simply waited for someone to come through. Thursday, as it was Tuesday, it was Christian Walker, whose two-run blast off Chad Sobotka put the game away and allowed him to overlook the three previous plate appearances, all resulting in strikeouts.

“He’s unbelievable. I told him after his first at-bat, 'Don’t worry about it. You’re going to get a good at-bat and you’re going to do damage. It’s only going to take one at-bat to do something special,'” said left fielder David Peralta, who had two hits Thursday. “He was able to forget his other three at-bats. We have to trust each other. We trust each other.”

Then there’s the bullpen, which allowed a mere two runs and seven hits over 11 innings in the three games. In the series, Arizona outscored Atlanta 12-2 from the seventh inning on.

“[Atlanta] is a lineup 1-9 that you can’t get behind, so I think we were all really aggressive and we all just put an emphasis on attacking guys and being on the attack the whole time,” said Archie Bradley, who threw two scoreless frames Wednesday night to earn the win. “Like we’ve said with the rotation, when you see your bullpen guys go out there and get big outs it’s just kind of like, ‘Let’s keep the momentum going. Go out there and do better than the last guy.’”