PHOENIX (AP) \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
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
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 (AP) \u2014 Ozzie Albies and Matt Olson opened the ninth inning with back-to-back home runs, sending the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,84486,38,756,640,729,541,5860,4,658,9500,9501,372,9496,9497,83120,82908,104,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-662688","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-braves-diamondbacks-score-albies-olson-holmes","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-eduardo-rodriguez","15":"tag-grant-holmes","16":"tag-ketel-marte","17":"tag-matt-olson","18":"tag-mike-soroka","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-ozhaino-albies","21":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","22":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","23":"tag-paul-sewald","24":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","25":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","26":"tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","27":"tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","28":"tag-raisel-iglesias","29":"tag-robert-suarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662688","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=662688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}