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Struggling Astros pick up rare consecutive wins
Hunter Brown threw 6 2/3 quality innings, Jeremy Pena and Christian Walker each drove in two runs, and the Houston Astros posted a 6-2 victory over the host Atlanta Braves on Saturday.,Brown (12-7) allowed two runs on four hits while striking out two and walking one for Houston (81-68), which won co...
Julio Rodriguez belts 2 homers as Mariners top Braves
Julio Rodriguez hit a pair of two-run home runs as the visiting Seattle Mariners beat the Atlanta Braves 10-2 Saturday.,Rodriguez hit his first home run in the first to give Seattle (74-68) a 2-0 lead and then broke a 2-2 with another two-run blast in the seventh.,Eugenio Suarez also hit a solo home...
Braves erase 6-run deficit to slay White Sox
Drake Baldwin delivered a two-run single with two outs in the eighth inning as the Atlanta Braves rallied from a six-run deficit to beat the visiting Chicago White Sox 11-10 on Tuesday.,Atlanta scored five runs in the seventh to pull within 10-9 before capping the rally on Baldwin's bases-loaded sin...
Marcus Semien’s walk-off single in 10th lifts Rangers over hapless Braves
Marcus Semien's walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning proved the difference as the Texas Rangers stayed hot with a 6-5 win over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday in the middle game of a three-game interleague series in Arlington, Texas.,Semien's hit off the Braves' Enyel De Los Santos (3-3) ...
Lawrence Butler homers twice, Nick Kurtz adds slam as A's rout Braves
Lawrence Butler homered twice and Nick Kurtz belted his first career grand slam to lead the Athletics to a 10-1 trouncing of the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night in West Sacramento, Calif.,Brent Rooker and Max Muncy also went deep as the Athletics rolled up nine runs over the first two innings. Butle...
Lawrence Butler homers twice, Nick Kurtz adds slam as Athletics rout Braves
Lawrence Butler homered twice and Nick Kurtz belted his first career grand slam to lead the Athletics to a 10-1 trouncing of the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night at West Sacramento, Calif.,Brent Rooker and Max Muncy also went deep as the Athletics rolled up nine runs over the first two innings. Butle...
Coming off 12-K gem, Braves' Bryce Elder faces Rockies
Braves right-hander Bryce Elder will put his unbeaten record against the Colorado Rockies on the line Friday when the teams open a three-game series in Atlanta.,The Braves return home after winning two of three games at Milwaukee, which followed a seven-game losing streak. Atlanta is nine games unde...
Phillies blank Braves behind Ranger Suarez's 8-strikeout gem
Ranger Suarez struck out eight over six solid innings as the Philadelphia Phillies notched a 2-0 victory Tuesday in the opener of their three-game series against the visiting Atlanta Braves., ,Suarez (4-0) scattered four hits and three walks for the Phillies, who watched Bryce Harper exit after gett...
Nationals edge Braves to win 4th straight
Dylan Crews homered and Mitchell Parker pitched into the sixth inning as the Washington Nationals beat the visiting Atlanta Braves 5-3 on Tuesday night to notch their fourth straight win.,Parker (4-3) worked 5 1/3 innings and allowed three runs on six hits for the Nationals. He struck out four and w...
Cards end skid, cool off Braves with clutch hit in 8th
Nolan Gorman's tiebreaking three-run double in the eighth inning lifted the visiting St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-4 win over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday, ending their five-game losing streak.,In a 4-4 game, Gorman lined a changeup from Enyel De Los Santos (1-1) into the right field corner to clear ...
Chris Sale looking to right ship in Braves' finale vs. Rays
With their season off to a terrible start, the Atlanta Braves could use a better version of pitcher Chris Sale than they have seen through his first three starts in 2025.,On Sunday afternoon in familiar surroundings, Sale and the Braves will try to win their three-game series against the Tampa Bay R...
Ronald Acuña Jr. Submits The Bat Flip Of The Year
Braves phenom Ronald Acuña Jr. had an exciting weekend against the Reds. On Friday, he hit a 463-foot homer. On Saturday, he earned the first walk-off hit of his career, smacking a ball down the left-field line to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning. Then on Sunday, with his te...
Idiot On The Field Runs Himself Into A Corner, Gets Leveled
If you are going to run onto a major league baseball field in the middle of a game, there are two keys to survival. The first is to always keep moving, and the second is to have an exit strategy. The fan who invaded the field at last night’s Braves game followed the first rule, but failed miserably ...
Freddie Freeman Crushes A Towering Tater Off His Own Child
Leave a pitch in one of Freddie Freeman’s hot zones, and you’ll regret it. The Braves first baseman’s own son learned that lesson the hard way. Locate those strikes, kid....
Manny Machado's Feud With The Braves' Mascot Is Extremely Good
It is unclear when and where the beef between Manny Machado and Blooper, the Braves’ strange mascot, began. It dates back to at least last season, Blooper’s rookie year, when Santa Blooper gave Machado a lump of coal, and later, in the playoffs, when Machado, uh, refused to mount Blooper(?). It has ...
Reds Announcer Suggests Ozzie Albies Doesn't Know The Difference Between $35 Million And $85 Million
The Braves became the target of many people’s ire earlier this month when they signed Ozzie Albies to a seven-year, $35 million contract extension that will, if Albies turns into the kind of player he looks destined to become, go down as one of the most appallingly team-friendly contracts in basebal...
There's A Lot Going On In This Jason Vargas Interview
Everyone’s eyes will naturally be drawn to the colonial-seeming fellow sliding into the background of Saturday’s postgame scrum for Mets pitcher Jason Vargas. Fine, that’s understandable. This blog will get to him shortly, but there are other things to appreciate here, too....
Brandon McCarthy Will Retire With The Nicest Stats In Baseball
Pitcher Brandon McCarthy, who has played for seven teams over 13 major-league seasons, said in August that this year with the Atlanta Braves would be his last. He will retire on a high note....
Ronald Acuña Jr. Gets Revenge, But The Braves And Marlins Aren't Done Beefing Yet
Earlier this month, Marlins pitcher Jose Ureña spiced up the team’s divisional rivalry with the Braves by plunking the white-hot rookie Ronald Acuña Jr., who at the time had hit three consecutive lead-off dingers. (The HBP didn’t technically snap Acuña’s streak, although he didn’t hit a lead-off HR ...
Jose Ureña Played Dumb And Defiant After Plunking Ronald Acuña
Pretty much the entire baseball world (except for Keith Hernandez) united against Marlins pitcher Jose Ureña after he knocked red-hot Braves starlet Ronald Acuña out of the game with a first-pitch heater to the elbow. Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman called Ureña “gutless.” Even his own manager ...