{"id":781535,"date":"2026-07-05T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781535\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:38:18","slug":"atlanta-braves-unleash-five-homers-in-rout-of-new-york-mets-as-sale-earns-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/781535\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves unleash five homers in rout of New York Mets as Sale earns win"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Michael Harris II<\/a> had three hits, including one of five Braves home runs, as Atlanta gave Chris Sale<\/a> plenty of support in a 14-3 blowout over the New York Mets<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Eli White<\/a>, Mauricio Dub\u00f3n, Mike Yastrzemski<\/a> and Austin Riley<\/a> also homered for Atlanta, which hit four home runs off Mets pitching in a 5-3 win on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Harris drove in two runs. White had four RBIs, Riley had three and Dub\u00f3n and Yastrzemski had two each.<\/p>\n

Sale (9-6), who was named an All-Star for the 10th time just before the game, gave up three runs on seven hits, including two home runs, and he matched a season-low with three strikeouts. Rookie JR Ritchie<\/a> picked up his first save after throwing three scoreless innings to close the game.<\/p>\n

The last-place Mets have lost 12 of their last 14 and have dropped to 36-53. No team has ever reached the postseason from 17 games under .500, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n

Sale was cruising until, with two outs in the fourth, he gave up a home run to Tyrone Taylor<\/a> to end his major league-best (among starting pitchers) 46-inning homerless streak. In the fifth, he gave up a two-run homer to Mark Vientos<\/a> and allowed the next two batters to reach before being pulled after 98 pitches.<\/p>\n

Sean Manaea<\/a> (1-4) took the loss, giving up six runs on six hits in five innings.<\/p>\n

White\u2019s solo home run into the Mets\u2019 bullpen in the second inning gave the Braves a 1-0 lead, and his three-run double in the third broke the game open. With two outs, White hit a soft pop-up to center field. Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor<\/a> and center fielder Taylor converged, and the ball bounced off Taylor\u2019s glove as he was trying to avoid Lindor. The play gave the Braves a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Mets right fielder Carson Benge<\/a> extended his on-base streak to 16 games, and Lindor was 2 for 3.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Braves LHP Martin Perez<\/a> (6-5, 3.27 ERA) will oppose Mets RHP Nolan McLean<\/a> (5-5, 3.78) in the third game of the four-game series Sunday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Bill Trocchi, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Michael Harris II had three hits, including one of five Braves home runs, as Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-781535","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\/781535","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=781535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}