{"id":760733,"date":"2026-07-25T02:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/760733\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:57:21","slug":"matt-olsons-3-run-homer-in-the-10th-inning-lifts-the-braves-past-the-orioles-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/760733\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Olson’s 3-run homer in the 10th inning lifts the Braves past the Orioles 7-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Matt Olson<\/a> hit his 27th home run as part of a four-run 10th inning, and the Atlanta Braves<\/a> defeated the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> 7-6 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Drake Baldwin<\/a> homered for NL East-leading Atlanta, which has won five of six.<\/p>\n

Christian Encarnacion-Strand homered and drove in four for Baltimore, which lost for the third time in four games.<\/p>\n

The Braves\u2019 Joey Bart<\/a> led off the 10th with a bloop single to right off Andrew Kittredge<\/a> (1-2), advancing automatic runner Brewer Hicklen<\/a> to third. Baltimore second baseman Jackson Holliday<\/a> tried to turn a double play on Jim Jarvis<\/a>\u2019 sharp grounder, but his throw sailed into left field, allowing Hicklen to score.<\/p>\n

After Kittredge struck out the next two Braves, Olson launched a three-run homer to right-center.<\/p>\n

Elieser Hernandez<\/a> (1-0) pitched three shutout innings in his debut with the Braves. He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth by coaxing Taylor Ward<\/a>\u2019s two-out groundout.<\/p>\n

Baltimore rallied against Dylan Lee<\/a> with pinch-hitter Jeremiah Jackson<\/a>\u2019s sacrifice fly and Encarnacion-Strand\u2019s two-run homer, before Sam Huff<\/a> struck out to end the game.<\/p>\n

Encarnacion-Strand\u2019s two-out double rattled around the left field corner in the second, driving in two runs and opening the scoring.<\/p>\n

Atlanta tied it in the fourth on Mauricio Dubon<\/a>\u2019s sacrifice fly and Austin Riley\u2019s RBI single to center. Baltimore moved ahead on Holliday\u2019s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n

The Braves tied it in the eighth on Baldwin\u2019s 20th home run of the season, a solo shot to right-center off Rico Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baltimore starter Trevor Rogers<\/a> allowed two runs and struck out six in seven innings. The left-hander has a 1.80 ERA in nine outings since June 4, dropping his season ERA from 6.84 to 4.17 in the process.<\/p>\n

Atlanta right-hander Grant Holmes allowed three runs and struck out five in five innings.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Atlanta RHP Bryce Elder (6-6, 4.06 ERA) faces Baltimore RHP Brandon Young (8-2, 3.25) as the series continues Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Matt Olson hit his 27th home run as part of a four-run 10th inning, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[1516,537,46,47,5,6672,5931,11548,59023,76469,1514,13459,37311,4680,19,541,3617,4,3226,28982,16059,5694,9009],"class_list":["post-760733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-andrew-kittredge","tag-athletics","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-brewer-hicklen","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-dylan-lee","tag-elieser-hernandez","tag-event_recap","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-jeremiah-jackson","tag-jim-jarvis","tag-joey-bart","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-rico-garcia","tag-sam-huff","tag-taylor-ward","tag-trevor-rogers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116978374612767034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760733","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=760733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}