Matt Olson had two homers and a career-high six RBIs, Marcell Ozuna and Jorge Soler homered, and the Atlanta Braves
broke a six-game losing streak with an 11-8 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
Olson hit a two-run homer off Angel Chivilli (0-1) to break an 8-8 tie in the seventh inning and Soler added a solo
shot in the eighth to help the Braves avoid their longest losing streak in nearly eight years (Aug. 13-20,
Atlanta overcame an early 3-0 deficit on Sam Hilliard’s three-run homer off starter Max Fried and lost an 8-5 lead in the sixth inning before rallying for the win.
“As hard as it’s been for us to put together a game, it’s huge,” Atlanta
manager Brian Snitker said. “That could have been a ‘here we go again’ type of thing, but these guys have played here
long enough to know these games are never over until they are over. Anything can happen.”
Hilliard had a homer, two doubles and a career-high five RBIs for the Rockies,
who have lost 10 of their last 11 against the Braves at Coors Field.
Ozuna homered for the third straight game, and Olson had his second two-homer game in 10 games after hitting
two against Milwaukee on July 31. Soler had three hits and three RBIs and has homered in back-to-back games.
