{"id":653812,"date":"2026-03-31T04:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653812\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:08:16","slug":"dubon-olson-and-yastrzemski-help-braves-earn-4-0-shutout-over-the-athletics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653812\/","title":{"rendered":"Dub\u00f3n, Olson and Yastrzemski help Braves earn 4-0 shutout over the Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Braves scored three runs in the first inning off a double from Matt Olson and a single from Mauricio Dub\u00f3n in a 4-0 win over the Athletics on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Yastrzemski came in to relieve left fielder Eli White and hit a line drive triple to right field in the eighth inning. Dub\u00f3n followed with a single to send him home.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Dub\u00f3n, a two-time (2023, &#8217;25) Gold Glove-winning shortstop, came to the Braves in the offseason from a trade with the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Elder (1-0) pitched six innings and gave up five hits with five strikeouts and a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Kurtz and Shea Langeliers both went 0 for 4 for the Athletics. Brent Rooker went 2 for 4, but grounded to Dub\u00f3n to start a double play that ended the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>In the ninth, Jacob Wilson was thrown out at second on a ground ball by Lawrence Butler, who was originally ruled safe at first. The call was challenged and then overturned, resulting in a double play. Max Muncy hit an infield fly that Olson caught to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Lopez (0-1) pitched four innings for the A&#8217;s. He gave up five hits, had five walks, three earned runs and no strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s Jose Suarez takes the mound against Aaron Civale as the series continues Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>___ AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 The Braves scored three runs in the first inning off a double from Matt Olson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[2132,537,5,192,545,4720,14280,663,632,1950,4810,541,3617,1532,119,4,3226,459,3442,7965,1949,5095],"class_list":["post-653812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-aaron-civale","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-brent-rooker","tag-bryce-elder","tag-double-play","tag-eli-white","tag-jacob-lopez","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-matt-olson","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-max-muncy","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-the-astros","tag-the-athletics","tag-the-braves"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116321825926092269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}