Ronald Acuna Jr. matched his MLB career high with four hits, including a solo home run, and scored three times to help the Atlanta Braves to an 8-7 win against the Colorado Rockies on Sunday to complete the four-game sweep in Denver.
Matt Olson broke a 3-3 tie with a three-run homer for the Braves in the second inning.
Atlanta starter Charlie Morton (4-3) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. He struck out eight and walked three for the Braves, who have won five in a row overall.
Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for Atlanta, giving up a leadoff homer to Charlie Blackmon before stranding the tying run on second to secure his 14th save in his 17th opportunity.
Brendan Rodgers had three hits, including a solo home run, and three RBIs, rookie catcher Brian Serven had two hits, including a two-run homer, for Colorado.
Rockies starter Ryan Feltner (1-2) allowed six runs and seven hits in three innings. He struck out three and walked one.
The first three batters of the game reached base off Feltner, capped by an RBI single from Austin Riley for a 1-0 lead.
Ozzie Albies came through with a bases-loaded, two-out single to score two more runs and give Morton an early 3-0 cushion.
The Rockies got those runs back in their half of the first, however.
Morton walked the first two batters before giving up a two-run double to Rodgers to make it 3-2. Ryan McMahon followed with an RBI single to tie the score 3-3.
Morton needed 41 pitches to get through the first inning, and 57 over the next four.
The Braves put three more runs on the board in the second inning on the three-run homer from Olson for a 6-3 lead.
Atlanta added another run in the fifth on a throwing error by Serven, but Rodgers got the run back with a solo homer in the Rockies’ half of the inning.
Acuna hit a 441-foot homer in the eighth, his third of the season, to stretch the lead to 8-4. Serven came back with a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning to cut it to 8-6.
The Rockies had never been swept by the Braves in a four-game series at Coors Field.
–Field Level Media