PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Matt Olson, Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dub\u00f3n hit solo homers, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez gave up one run over five innings and the Atlanta Braves coasted to a 17-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.<\/p>\n
The Braves broke it open with an eight-run fifth, sending 12 batters to plate to take a 10-1 lead. Austin Riley and Michael Harris II had two-run doubles and Ozzie Albies brought home two more with a single.<\/p>\n
It was a frustrating inning for the D-backs \u2014 partly thanks to technology. Ryne Nelson walked three batters, including Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., which forced in a run. The right-hander had a potential strike three to Albies overturned by an ABS challenge, turning it into a walk. A potential inning-ending double play was also overturned when Drake Baldwin was ruled safe at first.<\/p>\n
On top of that, 10-time Gold Glove third baseman Nolan Arenado made a costly error, leading to five unearned runs for Nelson.<\/p>\n
Nelson (0-1) made it just 4 2\/3 innings, giving up seven runs, but only two were earned. He walked three and struck out three.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez (1-0) gave up four hits and a walk while striking out three. Olson finished with three hits and three RBIs.<\/p>\n
Arizona had its three-game winning streak snapped. Jordan Lawlar hit a solo homer in the third, which was his first career long ball in 126 career plate appearances.<\/p>\n
D-backs catcher James McCann pitched the ninth inning, giving up five runs on seven hits, including a two-run homer to Jorge Mateo.<\/p>\n
The D-backs will start LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (0-0, 0.00 ERA) against Braves RHP Grant Holmes (0-1, 5.40) on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Matt Olson, Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dub\u00f3n hit solo homers, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez gave up one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,228183,63,285295,99126,77921,34111,156304,33770,222934,7312,157354,71622,591,6591,269747,146000,146002,145996,145998,280640,285297,285296,7304,240120,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-582449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-austin-riley","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-braves-diamondbacks-score","12":"tag-dominic-smith","13":"tag-eduardo-rodriguez","14":"tag-grant-holmes","15":"tag-james-mccann","16":"tag-jordan-lawlar","17":"tag-jorge-mateo","18":"tag-matt-olson","19":"tag-mauricio-dubon","20":"tag-michael-harris-ii","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-nolan-arenado","23":"tag-ozhaino-albies","24":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","25":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","26":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","30":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","31":"tag-ronald-acuna-jr","32":"tag-ryne-nelson","33":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}