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Marcell Ozuna homered between his two hits, Michael Harris II had three hits and the growing Atlanta Braves Beat the Colorado Rocky Mountains 3-1 in Denver on Tuesday night.
Ronald Acuna, Austin Riley and Ozzie Albies also had two hits for Atlanta, which has won eight straight games against Colorado since 2022. Bravos They have won 11 of their last 14 matches.
Charlie Morton (14-10) allowed one run on three hits and struck out eight in six innings and Raul Iglesias got the final three outs for his 26th save for Atlanta.
He Bravos He had 15 hits Tuesday night and has 33 hits in the first two games of the series, which concludes Wednesday.
Hunter Goodman tripled for the Rocky Mountains and has hit safely in all three games since making his major league debut on Sunday.
Atlanta got everything they needed in the second inning. Ozuna led off with a home run, his 30th of the season, and Eddie Rosario followed with a triple to center field. Sean Murphy made it 2-0 with a single to right field and advanced to second on Harris’s single.
Acuña hit a fielder’s choice, putting runners on the corners, but Colorado starter Peter Lambert intercepted Acuña at first to end the inning.
He Rocky Mountains recovered one at the bottom of the driveway. With one out, Goodman tripled off the center wall and scored when he beat home plate on Harold Castro’s groundout to first.
He Bravos increased the lead in the fifth. Riley led off with a double down the left-field line, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored on Ozuna’s single.
That was it for Lambert (3-5), who allowed three runs and nine hits in five innings.
Atlanta threatened again in the sixth, but was thwarted when Colorado center fielder Brenton Doyle pulled Orlando Arcia at home while trying to score from second on Albies’ single.
—Field-level media
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