{"id":669702,"date":"2026-04-08T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:50:19","slug":"albies-hits-his-3rd-home-run-and-the-braves-beat-the-angels-7-2-following-a-bench-clearing-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669702\/","title":{"rendered":"Albies hits his 3rd home run and the Braves beat the Angels 7-2 following a bench-clearing brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzie Albies hit his third home run of the season, starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez struck out seven in 4 2\/3 innings before being ejected after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/brawl-breaks-out-between-atlanta-pitcher-lopez-and-angels-dh-soler\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bench-clearing brawl<\/a>, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles designated hitter Jorge Soler went after L\u00f3pez following a high-and-tight wild pitch in the fifth. There was a lengthy staredown before Soler took steps toward the mound and L\u00f3pez held out his arms before the two exchanged punches. L\u00f3pez was holding the baseball when he landed a punch on Soler&#8217;s batting helmet. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ap26098123346854.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"APTOPIX Braves Angels Baseball \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Los Angeles Angels&#8217; Jorge Soler (12) and Atlanta Braves&#8217; Reynaldo L\u00f3pez (40) fight during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>                Ethan Swope \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>Soler homered in the first \u2014 the fifth of his career in 23 at-bats against L\u00f3pez \u2014 and was hit by a pitch in the third. <\/p>\n<p>Atlanta snapped a three-game skid and ended Los Angeles&#8217; three-game winning streak. <\/p>\n<p>Eli White had two RBIs for Atlanta, and Matt Olson scored twice. Nine players had at least one hit for the Braves. <\/p>\n<p>Olson doubled leading off the second and scored on a double by White.<\/p>\n<p>Olson walked in the fourth and scored on Austin Riley&#8217;s single to tie it 2-all. Riley scored on a sacrifice fly by White, who entered without an RBI this season. Jonah Heim made it 4-2 on a bloop single \u2014 his first hit with the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta reliever Raisel Iglesias struck out three in 1 2\/3 innings for his second save. Tyler Kinley (1-0) retired two batters, both on strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi (0-2) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. He struck out eight. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Trout was back in the Los Angeles lineup after being hit by a pitch on his left hand Sunday against Seattle. He went 1 for 5 and scored a run.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles concludes a six-game homestand Wednesday with LHP Reid Detmers (0-0, 2.38 ERA) on the mound against Atlanta RHP Grant Holmes (0-1, 2.45). <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ozzie Albies hit his third home run of the season, starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez struck out seven in 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,46,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,19,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-669702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-angels","13":"tag-laangels","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367526409457987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669702","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=669702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}