{"id":120188,"date":"2026-06-01T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/acuna-jr-still-on-fire-key-home-run-and-braves-defeat-cincinnati\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:56:25","slug":"acuna-jr-still-on-fire-key-home-run-and-braves-defeat-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/acuna-jr-still-on-fire-key-home-run-and-braves-defeat-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Acu\u00f1a Jr. still on fire: Key home run and Braves defeat Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acu\u00f1a Jr. and Harris II Guide Braves to Victory Over Reds<\/h2>\n\n\nCincinnati \u2013 Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. once again demonstrated his offensive ability by hitting a home run, leading the Atlanta Braves to an 8-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds along with Michael Harris II.\n\nThe encounter, which marked the beginning of the series at Great American Ball Park, saw Acu\u00f1a Jr. ignite the game from the start.\n\nThe Venezuelan gardener hit an impressive home run on the first pitch of the game, sending the ball into the stands in left-center field.\n\nThe hit, his fourth of the season, traveled 429 feet and left the bat at a speed of 113 miles per hour.\n\nThis home run extended Acu\u00f1a Jr.&#8217;s good offensive moment, who came from hitting a grand slam in the previous game.\n\nMichael Harris II was also key in Atlanta&#8217;s offense, batting 3-5 with three RBIs.\n\nThe Braves achieved their 39th victory of the season.\n\nAtlanta took an early 4-0 lead, although Cincinnati responded with solo home runs from JJ Bleday and Nathaniel Lowe, closing the gap in the score.\n\nStarting pitcher Grant Holmes worked 4.2 innings, allowing three runs and seven hits.\n\nDidier Fuentes took the victory in relief, overcoming a dangerous situation in the fifth inning.\n\nFuentes struck out Eugenio Su\u00e1rez with runners on first and third, securing the lead for Atlanta and improving his ERA to 0.96.\n\nThe Braves sealed the victory with a four-run rally in the sixth inning, with offensive contributions from Mike Yastrzemski and Jorge Mateo.\n\nBy Cincinnati, Yunior Marte returned to the Major Leagues after being called up to the team following Graham Ashcraft&#8217;s injury.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acu\u00f1a Jr. and Harris II Guide Braves to Victory Over Reds Cincinnati \u2013 Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. once again demonstrated his offensive ability by hitting a home run, leading the Atlanta Braves to an 8-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds along with Michael Harris II. The encounter, which marked the beginning of the series at Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1792,3720,3905,1768],"class_list":{"0":"post-120188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-bravos","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-jonron","11":"tag-ronald-acuna-jr"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}