{"id":169132,"date":"2026-04-18T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:20:08","slug":"philadelphia-drops-third-straight-as-nl-east-leading-atlanta-braves-rout-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169132\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia drops third straight as NL East-leading Atlanta Braves rout Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Riley hit a three-run homer in the second inning and a solo shot in the ninth, Martin Perez pitched six innings and the Atlanta Braves&#8217; routed the Philadelphia Phillies 9-0 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Smith and Michael Harris II also homered to help NL East-leading Atlanta improve to 13-7 with its third straight victory.<\/p>\n<p>Perez (1-1) was designated for assignment Sunday then signed a minor league deal Wednesday. He limited the Phillies to four hits, and Jos\u00e9 Suarez gave up two hits in the final three innings in picking up his first save.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies starter Taijuan Walker (1-3) allowed seven runs in four innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves loaded the bases in the first on leadoff hitter Ronald Acuna Jr.&#8217;s walk, Drake Baldwin&#8217;s single and Matt Olson&#8217;s walk. Ozzie Albies drove in Acuna with a groundout, and Mike Yastrzemski had an infield single off Walker&#8217;s leg to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Olson had an RBI single in the second, and Walker upped it to 6-0 with two outs with his three-run shot to right-center.<\/p>\n<p>Braves left-hander Chris Sale (3-1. 3.27 ERA) was set to start Saturday night against the Phillies&#8217; Cristopher Sanchez (2-1, 2.01).<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Riley hit a three-run homer in the second inning and a solo shot in the ninth, Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1422,11199,4661,69,71,70,1425,726],"class_list":["post-169132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}