{"id":720470,"date":"2026-04-11T12:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/720470\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:49:16","slug":"braves-overwhelm-guardians-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/720470\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves overwhelm Guardians 11-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Matt Olson gave Atlanta the lead with a long\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2042767923643646208\" rel=\"nofollow\">two-run homer<\/a>\u00a0off Slade Cecconi in a six-run sixth inning and the Braves beat the Cleveland Guardians 11-5 on Friday night in a matchup of first-place teams.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Braves had seven hits, including three homers, in the big inning and finished with 15 hits<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Cleveland scored three runs off right-hander Jos\u00e9 Suarez in the eighth<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Guardians, leading the AL Central, and the Braves, leading the NL East, are the only teams in the majors without a series loss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Guardians led 2-1 before Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. hit a tying homer off Cecconi in the sixth. Following a single by Drake Baldwin, Olson pulled the 441-foot homer off the top of the Chop House restaurant roof in right field for a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The blast was Olson&#8217;s fourth of the season. With Cleveland right-hander Matt Festa on the mound, Dominic Smith had a run-scoring single before Michael Harris II capped the six-run inning with another two-run homer over the Braves&#8217; bullpen in right-center.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves had seven hits, including three homers, in the big inning and finished with 15 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Cecconi (0-2) allowed five runs, four earned, on seven hits in 5 1\/3 innings. Tyler Kinley (2-0) pitched a perfect sixth for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta right-hander Bryce Elder had not allowed an earned run this season before Kyle Manzardo hit a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2042757231696056322\" rel=\"nofollow\">one-out homer<\/a>\u00a0to center field in the fourth inning. The shot carried 454 feet and tied the game at 1.<\/p>\n<p>A passed ball by Guardians catcher Bo Naylor in the third set up a broken-bat single by Acu\u00f1a that drove in Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Smith drove in two runs with three hits.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland scored three runs off right-hander Jos\u00e9 Suarez in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians, leading the AL Central, and the Braves, leading the NL East, are the only teams in the majors without a series loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves debuted their City Connect powder blue uniform that was inspired by the team&#8217;s look in the 1980s. Fans were given a Dale Murphy No. 3 jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland\u2019s Parker Messick (1-0, 0.82) is scheduled to face Atlanta\u2019s Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez (0-0, 3.86) in a matchup of left-handers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Matt Olson gave Atlanta the lead with a long\u00a0two-run homer\u00a0off Slade Cecconi in a six-run sixth inning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":720471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[30319,7448,1578,13593,1266,50,1573,117580,13570,62,52,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-720470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ohio","15":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116386160218806817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}