A few of the Braves’ potent bats outmatched the Mets’ dynamic arms through the first two games of the biggest series of the season.
Dansby Swanson, Matt Olson and Austin Riley were right in the middle of the Braves’ scoring outbursts again Saturday night in theThe Atlanta trio combined to go 11-for-23 with five home runs and seven RBIs as the Braves clinched the series victory and moved a game ahead of the Mets in the NL East.
“That’s what we do. We hit homers,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said of a club that has slugged more dingers than everyone except the Yankees. “It’s how our team is. You can’t explain it. It’s just what we are.On Friday, Riley and Olson crushed back-to-back home runs off deGrom in the second inning, before Swanson added one of his own in the sixth.
Atlanta closed Saturday with bigger ball. In the fifth inning, Swanson took the Braves from one down to one up, ripping a 432-foot, two-run homer off Scherzer into the seats in left-center for a 3-2 edge.“It’s a huge momentum thing,” said Swanson, the All-Star shortstop. “It’s just not easy to string together that many hits off guys like that. You’ve got to be opportunistic.”
“Those are no slouches out there by any means,” Olson said of the Mets’ co-aces. “A couple of the best pitchers in baseball.”
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