Ronald Ekuna Junior returned to the lineup to smack two homers and Drake Baldwin hit Atlanta Braves with a three-run blast on a 9–2 win over athletics on a athletics on Wednesday night in Sacramento, California.
Austin Riley and Marcel Ozuna also deepened as Braves held five homes from Athletics Starter Mich Spens. He came one night after one night after one night due to low-peeth tightness.
Bryus Alder (3-6) gave two runs and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings for Braves. He hit seven and went one to help Atlanta to snap the five-game losing streak and won only for the third time in his last 13 competitions.
Gio Urcela and Lawrence Butler had RBI for athletics, who had lost for the fourth time in the last six matches.
Jacob Wilson (left -arm fusion) sat outside for athletics. The American League’s initial shortstop for next week’s all-star game was hit by a pitch during a three-game opener on Tuesday.
Spens (2–5) was tortured for eight runs and nine hits in six innings. He hit three and one went away.
Ekuna displayed that her back was feeling good on the third pitch of the game when she drilled a ciner well with a sponsor over the fence on the left.
Matt Olson doubled Baldwin, doubled with a single and relay, causing a three -run explosion at the Right Center.
Olson moved from two to another on an infield single, before the relay made a homer a difference of six runs in the left centers.
Ekuna again deeply deepened with two outsiders in the fourth, as she had deposited a slider on the grass beyond the wall in the right centers.
Athletics climbed the board in the fifth as Jack Gelofy did a single with one and Danzel moved third on Clarke’s double. Butler’s Infield Groundout created Gelof.
Ozuna placed the Homer Parade against Spens when he defeated the second pitch of the sixth innings on the wall at the center 8–1.
Athletics instigated two-out solo by Tyler Sodestrom, Max Munsi and Ursela for one run in half of the sixth of the sixth.
Atlanta added a run to Hogan Harris’s seventh place as Olson left with a walk and later scored on the doubles of Zurics Profar for the third time.
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