Ronald Acuna Jr. had a house run amongst his two extra-base hits to bolster his MVP case because the visiting Atlanta Braves continued to ascertain their dominance within the Nationwide League with a 6-3 victory Friday towards the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Travis d’Arnaud and Marcell Ozuna additionally hit dwelling runs because the Braves gained the primary two video games in a four-game collection between the highest two groups within the NL. Ozuna had three hits.
Left-hander Max Fried (6-1) went seven scoreless innings with a season-high 10 strikeouts because the Braves elevated their successful streak to 5 video games with 9 victories of their final 10 video games.
Acuna is 5-for-8 within the collection, together with a grand slam in Thursday’s collection opener. The Braves‘ three dwelling runs Friday elevated their MLB-best whole to 256.
Kolten Wong hit a three-run dwelling run in his first at-bat as a member of the Dodgers to start out an eighth-inning rally that introduced the tying run to the plate earlier than Chris Taylor struck out towards right-hander Michael Tonkin. Kirby Yates pitched the ninth for his third save.
Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias (11-8) gave up 5 runs on 9 hits, three of them dwelling runs, in 5 innings. After a 2.16 ERA final season to steer the NL, Urias noticed the mark rise to 4.60 this season.
Atlanta waited till the second inning to indicate off its energy capabilities when d’Arnaud took Urias deep for his tenth of the season. Acuna hit his thirty first of the season within the third inning on a drive to heart discipline.
The Braves made it 3-0 within the fourth inning on Ozuna’s thirty second dwelling run, whereas they elevated the result in 5-0 within the fifth on an RBI double from Austin Riley and an RBI single from Ozuna. It grew to become 6-0 on an Eddie Rosario single within the eighth.
Fried pitched into the seventh inning for the primary time since coming off the injured checklist Aug. 4 after recovering from a left forearm pressure.
Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman mixed to go 1-for-6 with three strikeouts because the Dodgers misplaced consecutive video games for the primary time since July 26-28 following a 24-5 August.
—Area Degree Media
