PHOENIX (AP) \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
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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
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TWINS 5, ROYALS 1<\/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-dueling 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
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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 offense 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
GIANTS 7, METS 2<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \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
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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
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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 (AP) \u2014 Matt Olson, Dominic Smith and Mauricio Dub\u00f3n hit solo homers, Reynaldo L\u00f3pez gave up one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[240280,2317,2111,142455,9097,37772,382,12949,9883,71312,23556,238935,1188,4287,18705,66774,35909,25926,107644,142456,4288,6946,87863,59685,12945,36366,4291,9885,248771,133475,23560,29504,6429,363,7646,18700,375,136689,71313,9884,95051,25928,7686,99,101222,248770,29465,74261],"class_list":["post-561671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-susac","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-austin-riley","tag-baltimore","tag-blade-tidwell","tag-bo-bichette","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-byron-buxton","tag-casey-schmitt","tag-cole-ragans","tag-daniel-susac","tag-david-peterson","tag-dominic-smith","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-heliot-ramos","tag-inning","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-john-schreiber","tag-josh-bell","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-kansas-city","tag-kody-clemens","tag-luis-arraez","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-mark-vientos","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-olson","tag-matt-wallner","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mets","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-minnesota","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-rafael-devers","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-robbie-ray","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-salvador-perez","tag-sean-manaea","tag-sports","tag-steven-cruz","tag-taj-bradley","tag-taylor-rogers","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}