{"id":212129,"date":"2026-06-06T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:36:08","slug":"mauricio-dubon-homers-braves-beat-pirates-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212129\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Dub\u00f3n homers, Braves beat Pirates 6-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Dub\u00f3n homered for the third straight game and the Atlanta Braves opened another home series with a victory, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dub\u00f3n was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and two runs. It is the first time in his eight-year career he has homered in three consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. was 2 for 4 with a walk and an RBI and Matt Olson had two hits and a run.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez (4-3) went five innings and gave up three runs before giving way to the bullpen, which blanked MLB&#8217;s fourth-highest scoring offense in the final four innings. Raisel Iglesias got his 12th save and lowered his ERA to 0.92 after pitching the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves have won the opening game of a home series nine times in 10 tries this season.<\/p>\n<p>Dub\u00f3n&#8217;s two-run, 405-foot homer to left field tied it at 3 in the third inning, and his double gave the Braves a 4-3 lead in the fifth. He later scored on an RBI double by Austin Riley.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Keller (5-3) took the loss for the Pirates, giving up six runs on seven hits in 4 2\/3 innings. He has given up 13 runs in his last two starts.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh saw its 11-game homer streak end.<\/p>\n<p>Marcell Ozuna, who played for the Braves from 2020-25, was 2 for 4 with an RBI and received a strong ovation before his first at-bat in his first game since departing Atlanta. Nick Gonzalez and Henry Davis also had RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Braves RHP Spencer Strider (3-1, 3.77 ERA) was scheduled to start Saturday against Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (5-2, 2.77).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Dub\u00f3n homered for the third straight game and the Atlanta Braves opened another home series with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4844,1422,10942,11199,73,75,74,10997,726],"class_list":["post-212129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-georgia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212129","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=212129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}