Matt Olson had four hits including a three-run homer, Spencer Strider allowed one run over seven innings and the visiting Atlanta Braves beat the Washington Nationals 11-3 on Monday night.
Drake Baldwin added a homer and two singles, driving in four runs for Atlanta (67-83), which had 16 hits in winning its second straight game. Ronald Acuna Jr. also homered. Olson added two doubles and a single and had four RBIs.
Strider (6-13) allowed one run on four hits. He struck out six and walked two.
Daylen Lile had two hits including a home run for Washington (62-88) and has reached base in 15 consecutive games.
Washington starter Mitchell Parker (8-16) gave up six runs on 10 hits in five-plus innings.
The Nationals took a 1-0 lead in the second when Lile hit a leadoff homer.
Atlanta went ahead in the fourth. Olson led off with a double and Acuna singled him to third. Ozzie Albies singled, scoring Olson and sending Acuna to third. Acuna scored to make it 2-1 when Ha-Seong Kim grounded into a double play.
Marcell Ozuna and Michael Harris II singled leading off the Atlanta fifth. Nacho Alvarez hit a comeback off Parker, who threw him out as the other runners advanced. Both runners held when Jurickson Profar grounded out, but Olson followed with a home run — his 26th of the season — into the second deck in right and the Braves led 5-1.
In the sixth, Kim led off with a double and scored on a Baldwin single to make it 6-1.
The Braves added on against Shinnosuke Ogasawara in the seventh. Olson doubled home Alvarez and, with two outs, Baldwin’s single scored Profar to make it 8-1.
Washington added two runs in eighth on an RBI single by CJ Abrams and a double-play grounder by James Wood.
Acuna homered with one out in the ninth and Baldwin added a two-run shot to close the scoring.
–Field Level Media
