{"id":713272,"date":"2026-05-31T02:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713272\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:54:15","slug":"acuna-powers-braves-past-reds-5-2-with-2-more-homers-as-atlanta-hits-40-wins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713272\/","title":{"rendered":"Acu\u00f1a powers Braves past Reds 5-2 with 2 more homers as Atlanta hits 40 wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. homered for a third straight game \u2014 hitting a pair of solo shots \u2014 to lead the Atlanta Braves over the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Braves\/status\/2060873326063435823?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Acu\u00f1a homered<\/a> to right-center field off Brady Singer (2-5) to tie it at 2 in the third inning. The 2023 NL MVP capped the scoring with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Braves\/status\/2060898364242145539?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">a two-out shot<\/a> in the ninth off Lyon Richardson. He also stole two bases to help the Braves become the first team to 40 wins.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez (3-3) allowed two runs and four hits and walked three in five innings to earn the win. Three relievers each pitched a scoreless inning before Raisel Iglesias closed it with a perfect ninth for his 10th save.<\/p>\n<p>Ozzie Albies hit a ground-rule double leading off the second before scoring on a single by Mike Yastrzemski to put Atlanta up 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Steer drew a one-out walk from P\u00e9rez to extend his on-base streak to 18 games and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/2060872513802883517?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">JJ Bleday hit<\/a> his ninth home run and second in as many days to put the Reds up 2-1 after two innings.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz answered with a one-out triple, but was stranded when P\u00e9rez retired Sal Stewart on a grounder to third before striking out Eugenio Su\u00e1rez to keep it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Singer gave up three runs and four hits and four walks in five innings. He has allowed eight home runs in his last 12 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves improved to 23-9 on the road \u2014 best in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Braves RHP Spencer Strider (3-0, 3.46) starts Sunday as Atlanta aims for a sweep of the Reds, who&#8217;ll start LHP Nick Lodolo (1-1, 5.57).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. homered for a third straight game \u2014 hitting a pair of solo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,757,192,89360,3765,92,1952,915,1551,370,541,119,4,1331,658,9500,9501,9496,9497,82908,83365,104,921,6513,6288,773],"class_list":["post-713272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-brady-singer","tag-braves","tag-braves-reds-score-acuna","tag-brock-burke","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-jj-bleday","tag-jorge-mateo","tag-lyon-richardson","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-ozhaino-albies","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","tag-product-40806-ap-ohio-sports-only","tag-raisel-iglesias","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sal-stewart","tag-spencer-steer","tag-spencer-strider"],"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\/713272","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=713272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}