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<\/p>\nMatt Olson, Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dubon on Thursday hit solo homers, and Reynaldo Lopez gave up one run over five innings as the Atlanta Braves coasted to a 17-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the opener of a four-game series.<\/p>\n
The Braves broke it open with an eight-run fifth inning, sending 12 batters to plate to take a 10-1 lead. Austin Riley and Michael Harris II had two-run doubles, while Ozzie Albies brought home two more with a single.<\/p>\n
It was a frustrating inning for the Diamondbacks \u2014 partly thanks to technology.<\/p>\n
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Photo: Arianna Grainey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Ryne Nelson walked three batters, including Ronald Acuna Jr, which forced in a run. The right-hander had a potential strike three to Albies overturned by a challenge, turning it into a walk. A potential inning-ending double play was also overturned when Drake Baldwin was ruled safe at first.<\/p>\n
On top of that, 10-time Gold Glove third baseman Nolan Arenado made a costly error, leading to five unearned runs for Nelson.<\/p>\n
Nelson (0-1) made it just 4-2\/3 innings, giving up seven runs, but only two were earned. He walked three and struck out three.<\/p>\n
Lopez (1-0) gave up four hits and a walk while striking out three. Olson finished with three hits and three RBIs.<\/p>\n
Arizona had their three-game winning streak snapped. Jordan Lawlar hit a solo homer in the third, which was his first career long ball in 126 career plate appearances.<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks catcher James McCann pitched the ninth inning, giving up five runs on seven hits, including a two-run homer to Jorge Mateo.<\/p>\n
In Kansas City, Missouri, Taj Bradley pitched six innings of five-hit ball and Minnesota homered three times in the ninth inning to break open a close game as the Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 5-1 to avoid a three-game series sweep.<\/p>\n
Bradley (1-0) struck out three and walked one while outdueling Cole Ragans (0-2), helping the Twins improve to 2-0 with him on the mound. Minnesota were winless in their other four games on a season-opening six-game trip to Baltimore and Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Kody Clemens scored on an error by five-time Gold Glove-winning catcher Salvador Perez in the second inning and Byron Buxton added a sacrifice fly off John Schreiber in the eighth, before the Twins teed off against Royals reliever Steven Cruz in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Matt Wallner began the barrage with his homer to left, Clemens followed two batters later with his first of the season and Josh Bell gave the Twins their first back-to-back homers since July last year with his shot off Cruz to right field.<\/p>\n
The only offense for Kansas City came in the eighth inning, when Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr put runners on the corners with back-to-back singles, and Vinnie Pasquantino hit a sacrifice fly, but after Perez grounded into a fielder\u2019s choice, Twins reliever Taylor Rogers struck out Jac Caglianone with a sweeper out of the zone to leave the tying run on second base.<\/p>\n
The meager offense came one a day after the Royals piled up 13 runs in a win over the Twins.<\/p>\n
Ragans bounced back nicely from a dismal opening day in Atlanta, when the 2024 All-Star surrendered three homers in a 6-0 loss to the Braves. The Royals\u2019 left-hander went six innings and allowed four hits and a walk while striking out eight.<\/p>\n
In San Francisco, rookie catcher Daniel Susac went three for three with a walk in his first major league start as the Giants rolled over the New York Mets 7-2.<\/p>\n
The younger brother of former Giants catcher Andrew Susac singled in his first two at-bats off David Peterson (0-1), then drew a walk and singled off Sean Manaea.<\/p>\n
Rafael Devers homered and Casey Schmitt went three for three with a walk and an RBI for the Giants, who had 13 hits overall and handed the Mets their third straight loss.<\/p>\n
Robbie Ray (1-1) gave up two runs and three hits in 5-1\/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked three.<\/p>\n
Former Mets reliever Blade Tidwell worked three scoreless innings to earn his first major league save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Olson, Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dubon on Thursday hit solo homers, and Reynaldo Lopez gave up one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4,7109,7108],"class_list":{"0":"post-661125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-the-taipei-times","15":"tag-7108"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116341813451344673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661125","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=661125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}