Kevin Pillar homered amongst his two hits, Marcell Ozuna and Orlando Arcia additionally went deep, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Colorado Rockies 7-3 in Denver on Wednesday night time.
Ozzie Albies had 3 hits and Austin Riley contributed two to lend a hand starter Darius Vines get the win in his primary league debut for Atlanta, which gained all seven video games towards the Rockies this season.
Alan Trejo homered and Nolan Jones had two hits for Colorado.
Pillar were given the scoring began with a solo house run within the 3rd inning, his 7th of the season, earlier than the Rockies were given even within the backside of the inning.
Trejo reached on a one-out stroll and stole 2nd earlier than Charlie Blackmon used to be hit by way of a pitch. Ezequiel Tovar then singled up the center to carry house the tying run.
The Braves went again in entrance within the fourth inning. Riley and Matt Olson singled to place runners on first and 2nd without a outs. Ozuna hit a grounder to shortstop however Tovar’s throw to 2nd base used to be broad, permitting Riley to attain and Olson to advance to 3rd.
Olson then scored on Travis d’Arnaud’s groundout to make it 3-1, and Atlanta expanded at the lead within the 6th.
Kyle Freeland were given the primary two batters however Ozuna homered to left to make it 4-1, his thirty first of the season. Freeland walked d’Arnaud and Arcia adopted together with his sixteenth house run of the season. Pillar then singled to chase Freeland.
Evan Justice got here on and after Pillar stole 2nd Michael Harris II singled off Justice’s glove to carry house Pillar.
Freeland (5-14) allowed seven runs — six earned — on 8 hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Colorado were given a run again within the backside of the 6th. Elias Diaz singled, Jones doubled and Hunter Goodman hit a sacrifice fly to heart to make it 7-2.
Vines (1-0) then were given the general out to finish his night time. He allowed two runs on 4 hits and struck out 5 with one stroll in six innings.
Trejo led off the ground of the 7th together with his 3rd house run of the season.
—Box Degree Media
