PHOENIX \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
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Taj Bradley pitched six innings of five-hit ball, Minnesota homered three times in the ninth inning to break open a close game, and the Twins beat Kansas City to avoid a three-game series sweep.<\/p>\n
Bradley (1-0) struck out three and walked one while out-duelling Cole Ragans (0-2), helping the Twins improve to 2-0 with him on the mound. Minnesota was winless in its other four games on a season-opening six-game trip through Baltimore and Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Kody Clemens scored on an error by five-time Gold Glove-winning catcher Salvador Perez in the second, and Byron Buxton added a sacrifice fly off John Schreiber in the eighth, before the Twins teed off against Royals reliever Steven Cruz in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Matt Wallner began the barrage with his homer to left, Clemens followed two batters late with his first of the season, and Josh Bell gave the Twins their first back-to-back homers since last July with his shot off Cruz to right field.<\/p>\n
The only offence for Kansas City came in the eighth, when Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr. put runners on the corners with back-to-back singles, and Vinnie Pasquantino hit a sacrifice fly. But after Perez grounded into a fielder\u2019s choice, Twins reliever Taylor Rogers struck out Jac Caglianone with a sweeper out of the zone to leave the tying run on second base.<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 San Francisco rookie catcher Daniel Susac went 3 for 3 with a walk in his first major league start and the Giants rolled over New York.<\/p>\n
The younger brother of former Giants catcher Andrew Susac singled in his first two big league at-bats off David Peterson (0-1), then drew a walk and singled off Sean Manaea.<\/p>\n
Rafael Devers homered and Casey Schmitt went 3 for 3 with a walk and an RBI for the Giants, who had 13 hits overall and handed the Mets their third straight loss.<\/p>\n
Robbie Ray (1-1) gave up two runs and three hits in 5 1\/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked three.<\/p>\n
Former Mets reliever Blade Tidwell worked three scoreless innings to earn his first big league save.<\/p>\n
Bo Bichette\u2019s RBI double off Ray gave the Mets a 1-0 lead in the first before the Giants scored three times with two outs in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n
Luis Arraez tripled off the right-field wall to score Heliot Ramos with San Francisco\u2019s first run. Matt Chapman followed with a double down the right-field line to score Arraez. Chapman scored the third run when Peterson dropped Mark Vientos\u2019 throw to first on Jung Hoo Lee\u2019s grounder. Peterson was charged with an error.<\/p>\n
Peterson allowed six runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 and nine hits in 4 1\/3 innings. He struck out five and walked two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Matt Olson, Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dub\u00f3n hit solo homers, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez gave up one run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-579274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}