{"id":662240,"date":"2026-04-04T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:11:38","slug":"albies-and-olson-hit-back-to-back-homers-in-9th-to-give-braves-2-0-win-over-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662240\/","title":{"rendered":"Albies and Olson hit back-to-back homers in 9th to give Braves 2-0 win over Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX \u2014 Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson opened the ninth inning with back-to-back home runs, sending the Atlanta Braves to a 2-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Grant Holmes held the Diamondbacks to one hit through six innings, matching zeros with Arizona starter Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n

Albies and Olson connected off reliever Paul Sewald (0-1), helping the Braves improve to 6-2 while the Diamondbacks dropped to 3-5. Arizona has scored only three runs in its last three games.<\/p>\n

Robert Suarez (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth inning and Raisel Iglesias worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his first save this season.<\/p>\n

Albies, who had three of Atlanta’s six hits, drove an 0-1 pitch from Sewald over the right-field fence for his second homer of the year.<\/p>\n

Olson sent Sewald\u2019s next delivery to left for his second home run as well.<\/p>\n

In the early innings, both starters were in command. Holmes didn’t give up a hit until Ketel Marte singled on a sharp line drive to left with one out in the sixth. The right-hander walked three and struck out four.<\/p>\n

\"Atlanta<\/p>\n

Atlanta Braves first baseman Matt Olson (28) rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Friday, April 3, 2026, in Phoenix. Credit: AP\/Rebecca Noble<\/p>\n

In his only two previous starts against the Diamondbacks, both last year, Holmes allowed nine runs in nine innings.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez tossed seven strong innings of his own, scattering four hits while walking one and striking out three. It’s the first time the left-hander has opened a season with consecutive scoreless starts.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The third game of the four-game series is Saturday, with Braves RHP Bryce Elder (1-0) facing Michael Soroka (1-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson opened the ninth inning with back-to-back home runs, sending the Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[22,191,46,4166,5,192,4,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-662240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116344723588640992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662240","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=662240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}