Grissom, Rosario showing depth of Braves’ lineup
ATLANTA — Even as Sandy Alcantara seemed just like the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner and Bryce Elder proved he’s human, there was only a sense the Braves have been primed to make the comeback that offered a 6-4 win over the Marlins on Wednesday evening at Truist Park.
“This team has demonstrated that at any point any player can change the game,” Braves left fielder Eddie Rosario stated by means of an interpreter. “We have a lot of good players on this team. When you have talent like this, someone is bound to have good moments.”
Rosario was simply one of many many Braves who constructed good moments throughout the four-run eighth-inning comeback. Matt Olson homered to start the decisive body and Rosario fueled the rally with a game-tying triple.
As for Vaughn Grissom, he delivered the game-winning single after which was requested if this was one other signal he likes these huge moments.
“I feel like I need [clutch situations] these days,” Grissom stated. “That’s the only time I get a hit.”
There was loads of motive for Grissom and his teammates to really feel jovial after claiming this third straight win. The Braves spent the primary 5 innings being dominated by Alcantara. But even with Michael Harris II and Travis d’Arnaud nonetheless on the injured record, this Atlanta lineup proved deep sufficient to steadily erase a 4-0, sixth-inning deficit.
Ronald Acuña Jr. began the comeback when he started the underside of the sixth with a solo shot that traveled 442 ft. and got here off his bat at 115.1 mph, the fifth-hardest hit homer of his profession. This didn’t pad his unbelievable first-inning stats, nevertheless it created motive for Grissom to be requested why Acuña has a knack for offering a well timed spark.
“We’re trying to figure it out too, because we all want some of that,” Grissom stated. “He’s absolutely electric up there. I can’t imagine any team wants to pitch to that guy. I don’t know what it is. But let’s try to figure it out, so that one through nine, we can all put the fear of God in pitchers like he does.”
Harris started a rehab project on Wednesday and may very well be activated to play on this weekend’s four-game sequence in opposition to the Mets. d’Arnaud is making progress, however his return stays unsure as he recovers from a fourth concussion. Still, this stays a deep lineup, particularly now that Rosario is realizing some higher luck.
Rosario entered the sport with a .200 batting common and .385 slugging share, regardless of having homered each of the earlier two days. Those residence runs additional validated the .262 anticipated batting common and .485 anticipated slugging share he carried into Wednesday.
These anticipated stats signaled the upward pattern that continued Wednesday, when Rosario laced the game-tying triple off Dylan Floro, who entered the day having not allowed a run over 10 1/3 innings this yr. The sharp grounder eluded first baseman Garrett Cooper and rolled towards the right-field nook.
“I feel like I’ve stumbled on some good luck of late, but that’s baseball, right?” Rosario stated. “You have good moments and you have bad moments. You just have to take advantage and appreciate the good moments.”
Or simply reap the benefits of all the massive moments, like Grissom seemingly has achieved over the previous couple of weeks.
Rosario drew one of many two consecutive two-out walks that chased Alcantara within the sixth. This put him in place to attain on the primary of Grissom’s RBI singles.
After Rosario tripled within the eighth, he trotted residence as Grissom once more confirmed the worth of constantly placing the ball in play. His game-winning single left him 6-for-11 with runners in scoring place this yr. He’s 6-for-30 in all different at-bats.
So possibly he may use extra alternatives in these clutch conditions, as he recommended. Regardless, the Braves are simply blissful to have seen him ship as regularly as he has in these huge moments.
“He puts the ball in play,” Snitker stated. “That’s a pretty good trait for a guy this early in their career to have this kind of bat-to-ball skill.”
