Juan Yepez hit his 11th homer, just inside the foul pole in left field, and Capel hit his first career homer on a long fly to center field. Louis got back in the game in the sixth inning with a pair of solo home runs off Chavez, ending his stretch of 15 1/3 scoreless innings. The Cardinals cut the lead to 6-1 on Conner Capel’s sacrifice fly. Olson finished the rally with another run-scoring single. walked with the bases loaded and Swanson followed with a three-run double. Marcell Ozuna scored when Ronald Acuna Jr. The Braves scored a run in the first on Matt Olson’s RBI single.Ītlanta scored five times in the second inning to take a 6-0 lead. The losing pitcher was Dakota Hudson (6-5), who gave up six runs - matching his season high - on nine hits, three walks and two strikeouts in four innings. Smith got out of a base-loaded jam in the ninth and earned his fifth save. Winning pitcher Darren O’Day (2-2), Dylan Lee and Will Smith each pitched a scoreless inning of relief. Jesse Chavez (2-1) pitched two innings after the rain delay. Wright did not return after the long delay and did not pitch the required five innings to get the win. He pitched four innings and allowed only one run (unearned) on three hits, one walk and two strikeouts. The rain delay cost Kyle Wright an opportunity to win his 10th game. Adam Duvall capped a four-run 11th inning with a two-run homer and the Braves spoiled the debut of Colorado’s new and very green City Connect uniforms by beating the Rockies 6-2 on Saturday night.
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500 (9-for-18) with four doubles, six RBIs and scored four runs. Or this: A second straight clinic on how to pitch at the hitter-friendly park from the Atlanta staff. Over his last four games, Swanson is hitting. Swanson went 2-for-4 with a double, three RBIs and two runs.
The game was delayed two hours and 37 minutes after the fourth inning because of rain. D’Arnaud flew out for the second out and Ozuna struck out to end what was an absolute slugfest.Dansby Swanson’s bases-clearing double sparked a five-run outburst in the second inning and the Atlanta Braves hung on to beat the visiting St.
Wilmer Flores hit a two RBI single to essentially put the game out of reach for Atlanta, but was thrown out at second by Acuna to end the inning.ĭansby led off the ninth with a line drive single before Austin Riley popped out, but Matt Olson hit his second home run of the night, bringing the Braves within two. Stephens then struck out Tommy La Stella for the second out. Stephens struck out Brandon Belt for the first out, introducing the possibility of a double play to end the inning and got a ground ball, but it was just past a diving Dansby to score an important run and leave the bases loaded. The Braves then opted to intentionally walk Joc Pederson, loading the bases with no outs. Stephens came back out for the ninth and walked the leadoff hitter before inducing a ground ball to Austin Riley that Austin kicked into the Giants dugout on a diving attempt, advancing the runners to second and third. Michael Harris singled on an opposite field grounder to bring up Acuna with the tying run on second, but Acuna grounded out on the first pitch, sending the game to the ninth with the Braves still losing 9-8. Orlando Arcia reached with two outs on a grounder that drew Brandon Belt off the bag and the pitcher failed to tag first base. Jackson Stephens worked a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the eighth on two groundouts and a flyout. Astrada did make a nice play to throw out d’Arnaud for out three on a ball that bounced over the pitcher, but the Giants were clinging to a one run lead. Matt Olson hit the first pitch he saw on the ground to shortstop who tossed it to second, where Thairo Astrada whiffed on the ball, allowing Acuna to score and leaving men on first and second for d’Arnaud. Ronald Acuna singled with one out and took third as he was already stealing and the Giants’ catcher whiffed on ball four to Austin Riley. McHugh went on to strike out the next three batters. The Atlanta offense had another 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the sixth and Joc Pederson led off the seventh with a home run because of course.
McHugh struck out Evan Longoria to end the inning with a one run deficit. McHugh allowed a two-run double that was nearly a three run double if it weren’t for a nice relay from Acuna to Swanson to d’Arnaud and a nice tag by d’Arnaud. After the Braves went down in order in the bottom of the fifth, Dylan Lee got the first out of the sixth before giving way to Darren O’Day, who gave up two cheap soft singles before walking a batter to load the bases, at which point Snitker brought in Collin McHugh. Dylan Lee stayed in the game for the fifth and worked around a weird softly hit single with a lot of spin with two outs for a scoreless inning. Michael Harris was hit by a pitch on his back foot with two outs in the bottom fourth and Ronald Acuna launched a two-run homer to give the Braves the lead back and did the Ice Trae celebration after admiring it.