ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 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 bench-clearing brawl, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s batting helmet.<\/p>\n
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
Atlanta snapped a three-game skid and ended Los Angeles’ three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Eli White had two RBIs for Atlanta, and Matt Olson scored twice. Nine players had at least one hit for the Braves.<\/p>\n
Olson doubled leading off the second and scored on a double by White.<\/p>\n
Olson walked in the fourth and scored on Austin Riley\u2019s 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
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
Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi (0-2) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. He struck out eight.<\/p>\n
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
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ozzie Albies hit his third home run of the season, starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,662,5,192,85161,663,7530,3509,774,541,603,4,658,9500,9501,9496,9497,39138,82908,104,3923,5171,1106,809],"class_list":{"0":"post-669768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-austin-riley","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-braves-angels-score-soler-lopez-fight","15":"tag-eli-white","16":"tag-jonah-heim","17":"tag-jorge-soler","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-matt-olson","20":"tag-mike-trout","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-ozhaino-albies","23":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","24":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","25":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","26":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","27":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","28":"tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","29":"tag-raisel-iglesias","30":"tag-reid-detmers","31":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","32":"tag-tyler-kinley","33":"tag-yusei-kikuchi"},"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\/669768","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=669768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}