{"id":261002,"date":"2026-04-10T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261002\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:39:39","slug":"ozzie-albies-hits-his-3rd-home-run-and-braves-beat-angels-following-a-bench-clearing-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261002\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzie Albies hits his 3rd home run and Braves beat Angels following a bench-clearing brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ozzie Albies<\/a> hit his third home run of the season, starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez struck out seven in 4 2\/3 innings before being ejected after a bench-clearing brawl, and the Atlanta Braves<\/a> beat the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> 7-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles designated hitter Jorge Soler<\/a> went after L\u00f3pez following a high-and-tight wild pitch in the fifth. There was a lengthy staredown before Soler took steps toward the mound and L\u00f3pez held out his arms before the two exchanged punches. L\u00f3pez was holding the baseball when he landed a punch on Soler\u2019s batting helmet. <\/p>\n

Soler homered in the first \u2014 the fifth of his career in 23 at-bats against L\u00f3pez \u2014 and was hit by a pitch in the third. <\/p>\n

Atlanta snapped a three-game skid and ended Los Angeles\u2019 three-game winning streak. <\/p>\n

Eli White<\/a> had two RBIs for Atlanta, and Matt Olson<\/a> scored twice. Nine players had at least one hit for the Braves. <\/p>\n

Olson doubled leading off the second and scored on a double by White.<\/p>\n

Olson walked in the fourth and scored on Austin Riley<\/a>\u2019s single to tie it 2-all. Riley scored on a sacrifice fly by White, who entered without an RBI this season. Jonah Heim<\/a> made it 4-2 on a bloop single \u2014 his first hit with the Braves.<\/p>\n

Atlanta reliever Raisel Iglesias<\/a> struck out three in 1 2\/3 innings for his second save. Tyler Kinley<\/a> (1-0) retired two batters, both on strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> (0-2) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. He struck out eight. <\/p>\n

Mike Trout<\/a> was back in the Los Angeles lineup after being hit by a pitch on his left hand Sunday against Seattle. He went 1 for 5 and scored a run.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Los Angeles concludes a six-game homestand Wednesday with LHP Reid Detmers<\/a> (0-0, 2.38 ERA) on the mound against Atlanta RHP Grant Holmes<\/a> (0-1, 2.45). <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Ozzie Albies hit his third home run of the season, starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-261002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}