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Ketel Marte and Corbin Carroll both hit a pair of home runs and starting pitcher Zac Gallen pitched seven strong innings to help the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Atlanta Braves 8-3 on Tuesday in the opener of their three-game series.

Arizona evened the season series at 2-2 and has won two straight.

Marte went 3-for-3 with two walks, three RBIs and lifted his batting average to .294. He clubbed a 445-foot homer into the seats in right field in the first inning and hit a two-run line drive shot into right field in the fourth, both off Atlanta starter Spencer Strider, and has 10 homers.

Marte has reached base safely in a season-best 16 games, a streak that includes seven homers and 10 RBIs.

Carroll went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and three runs scored. He connected in the fifth inning on a two-run shot that carried 438 feet to right field, and put the game away with a 416-foot three-run homer with two outs in the ninth. He has a team-leading 18 homers.

Zac Gallen (4-7) ended a three-game losing streak and won his first game since April 6. He allowed three runs — only one earned — on four hits, one walk and three strikeouts. Gallen retired the first 10 batters he faced before rookie Drake Baldwin got the first Atlanta hit, a solo homer to right field, his sixth.

Shelby Miller pitched the eighth inning and Ryan Thompson closed the game with a perfect ninth.

Strider (0-4) pitched five innings and allowed five runs on six hits — three of them home runs — two walks and four strikeouts.

The Braves scored three times in the fourth inning. After Baldwin’s homer, Matt Olson singled and scored from first when Marcell Ozuna’s grounder went under the glove of third baseman Eugenio Suarez. Ozuna, who took second on the throw, scored on an opposite-field single by Ozzie Albies.

–Field Level Media