Fried deals, Acuña Jr. homers as Braves fire on all cylinders

LOS ANGELES — Ronald Acuña Jr. is bidding for a 40-40 season, and Marcell Ozuna can also be capturing for the 40-homer threshold, which has already been surpassed by Matt Olson. There’s no cause to fret in regards to the Braves’ offense.

Nor, does there look like cause to have any lingering issues about Max Fried, who proved he’s nonetheless an ace as he helped the Braves declare a 6-3 win over the Dodgers on Friday night time at Dodger Stadium. This was the satisfying outing he has been in search of since ending a three-month injured checklist stint in early August.

Acuña homered for a second straight night time, and Ozuna homered for the third time in 4 days. This is simply what the baseball world has come to count on from the Braves, who’ve homered 44 extra instances than the Dodgers, who’ve MLB’s second-highest complete.

Los Angeles averaged 6.1 runs per recreation in August after which started September by being silenced by Fried, who scattered three hits and tallied 10 strikeouts over seven scoreless innings. He retired every of the primary eight batters confronted and didn’t enable a Dodger to succeed in second base till there have been two outs within the seventh.

The Braves have taken the primary two video games of this four-game sequence and have a six-game lead over the Dodgers within the battle for the National League’s greatest report. The crew that finishes with the perfect report will safe home-field benefit all through the NL portion of the playoffs.