Field Level Media
04 May 2026, 04:25 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images)
Jonah Heim homered, doubled and drove in a career-high-tying five runs as the Atlanta Braves completed a three-game series sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 11-6 victory on Sunday afternoon in Denver.
Matt Olson went 2-for-4 with two doubles, two runs and an RBI and Jorge Mateo also homered and had two hits and two RBIs for Atlanta. Three other Braves finished with two hits: Eli White (triple, RBI), Ozzie Albies (three runs, RBI) and Drake Baldwin.
The Braves, who won for the sixth time in seven games, are off to their best 35-game start (25-10) since 1892, when the franchise then known as the Boston Beaneaters started 26-9.
Aaron Bummer (1-1) picked up the win in relief. Spencer Strider made his season debut for the Braves after starting the season on the injured list with a left oblique strain and left after 3 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits while walking five. He struck out six and left after throwing 87 pitches, just 48 for strikes.
Mickey Moniak hit two home runs and drove in three runs, Troy Johnston had two hits with two walks and a run and TJ Rumfield went 3-for-5 with a home run, two RBIs and a run for Colorado, which suffered its fourth straight loss.
Kyle Freeland (1-3) suffered the loss, allowing six runs on eight hits over 4 1/3 innings. He walked three and struck out seven.
Colorado took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by Rumfield, but Atlanta answered with three runs in the second on back-to-back homers by Heim, a 425-foot two-run blast to center, and Mateo.
Rumfield cut the lead to 3-2 in the third with a leadoff homer. The Rockies then took a 4-3 lead an inning later on a two-run homer by Moniak, driving in Jake McCarthy, who had tripled.
Atlanta regained the lead with three runs in the fifth, parlaying two hits and three walks, including one to White with the bases loaded.
Colorado cut the lead to 6-5 on a sacrifice fly by Ezequiel Tovar, but the Braves answered with two runs in the sixth, including an RBI double to the wall in left-center by Olson.
Moniak hit his second homer and 11th of the season in the eighth, a 438-foot drive to right-center, to cut the lead to 8-6. The Braves added three insurance runs in the ninth, including a two-run double by Heim, to seal the win.
--Field Level Media
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