WASHINGTON (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a three-run homer to develop into the quickest participant in main league historical past to achieve 200 house runs and 200 stolen bases, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 9-0 on Wednesday.
Sean Murphy homered for the third time in 5 video games, a three-run shot within the sixth inning that broke a scoreless tie in a sport that was interrupted by a 1-hour, 25-minute rain delay within the fourth.
r within the seventh, his 14th of the season, to make it 6-0. He wanted 904 video games to achieve the 200/200 membership. Alfonso Soriano set the earlier file at 929 video games in August of 2006 whereas enjoying for the Nationals towards the Braves.
Acuña stole the 225th base of his profession and twentieth of the season, swiping second after his leadoff single within the sixth towards Riley Cornelio (2-2), who struck out the following two batters. After Michael Harris II was walked deliberately, p to left.
Acuña led off the fourth with a single off Nationals starter Brad Lord. A stroll and an error loaded the bases earlier than it began raining. When play resumed, Cornelio got here in and retired Murphy and Mike Yastrzemski to flee the jam.
Grant Holmes wanted solely 26 pitches to retire the primary 9 Nationals earlier than the delay. Dylan Dodd labored a scoreless inning and Elieser Hernández (2-0) pitched the following three, permitting two hits, together with James Wooden's two-out single within the sixth for Washington's first hit.
Nationals catcher Keibert Ruiz left within the fourth inning after taking a foul ball off his masks.
Up subsequent
The Braves will begin LHP Chris Sale (13-9, 2.06) on Friday at Philadelphia reverse Phillies LHP Cristopher Sánchez (16-4, 2.52) within the opener of a four-game sequence. The Nationals start a sequence on the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
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