Braves set NL standard with 29-run outburst, Amazing numbers behind Atlanta Braves' 29-run!!!

Braves set NL standard with 29-run outburst.

ATLANTA -- Adam Duvall produced his second three-homer game within an eight-day span to help the Braves roll to a record-setting 29-9 win over the Marlins on Wednesday night at Truist Park. Duvall became the first player to record two three-homer games while wearing a Braves uniform, and his efforts

ATLANTA -- Adam Duvall produced his second three-homer game within an eight-day span to help the Braves roll to a record-setting 29-9 win over the Marlins on Wednesday night at Truist Park.

Duvall became the first player to record two three-homer games while wearing a Braves uniform, and his efforts helped Atlanta set a National League record for runs in a game in the modern era (since 1900).

“That was pretty amazing to be a part of,” Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “I’ve never seen an offense click like that.”

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The Braves fell just one run short of tying the modern record for runs scored in a game, set when the Rangers defeated the Orioles, 30-3, in the first game of a doubleheader on Aug. 22, 2007, at Camden Yards.

Dating back to 1900, no NL club had scored more than 28 runs in a game. The Braves’ franchise record was 23, a mark tallied during the second game of a doubleheader against the Cubs on Sept. 2, 1957.

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Ronald Acuña Jr. contributed to his three-hit night with a three-run home run to cap a six-run fifth. But it was his bases-loaded double in the sixth inning that gave the Braves a new franchise record for runs in a single game, opening a 25-8 lead.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Atlanta became the first MLB team to score at least 22 runs through the first five innings since the Blue Jays (24 runs) in a win over the Orioles on June 26, 1978.

“It’s one of those weird nights where you just get rolling,” manager Brian Snitker said.

Travis d’Arnaud, Duvall and Ozzie Albies all homered in the Braves' 11-run second inning, the first such inning in the Majors this year; the team also tallied 10 runs in the second inning of an Aug. 30 win in Philadelphia.

Adding to the significance of this eruption was the fact it prevented the Braves from being swept by the Marlins, who had claimed a shutout win on Tuesday. Snitker responded to his team being blanked by moving Freeman back to the second spot of the order on Tuesday.

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“You never know what can happen when you juggle some pieces around,” Duvall said. “Baseball is a funny game. You can be off one night and the next night have the best night of your life. That is baseball.”

Here’s a breakdown of this record-setting night that kept the Braves' lead in the National League East at two games over the Phillies in the National League East:

• Duvall capped his memorable night with a seventh-inning grand slam. This three-homer game was produced exactly one week after he powered his first at Fenway Park. He now has eight home runs within his past 29 at-bats.

• According to STATS, Duvall is the first player in history to homer with one man on, two men on and the bases loaded, in that order, in a game. He is also just the second player in NL history to have two three-homer games within 10 days of each other, joining the Cardinals' Johnny Mize who accomplished the feat on July 13 and 20, 1938. Duvall is also the first player in the Majors to ever have two such games in the same September.

Duvall’s 13 home runs match Marcell Ozuna for the team lead.

• Freeman drove in a career-high six runs and reached the 1,500-hit milestone with a two-run homer in the third inning off Marlins reliever Jordan Yamamoto, who was charged with 13 runs over 2 2/3 innings.

• Albies accounted for another of Atlanta’s seven homers with a solo shot in the second inning. This was his first game played since being placed on the injured list with a right wrist bone bruise on Aug. 5.

• Wednesday night marked the fifth time in franchise history the Braves hit at least seven home runs in a game.

• The Braves have scored at least 10 runs in an inning in two of the three starts Tommy Milone has made since being acquired from the Orioles on Aug. 30. Milone lasted just 2 1/3 innings after being given a 10-0 second-inning lead in Philadelphia on the day of the trade. He was charged with eight runs over 3 1/3 innings on Wednesday.

Mark Bowman has covered the Braves for MLB.com since 2001.

Braves set franchise record for runs, hammer Marlins 29-9.

ATLANTA (AP) — Manager Brian Snitker was just hoping to shake up the Atlanta Braves' lineup following a shutout loss.

As it turned out, the new mix made National League history.

Adam Duvall drove in nine runs with three homers, including a grand slam, and the Braves obliterated their franchise scoring record and set the NL record in a 29-9 romp over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night.

The Braves broke loose for 11 runs in the second and nearly matched the modern scoring mark since 1900, set by the Texas Rangers in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles in 2007.

“Pretty amazing,” said Freddie Freeman, who drove in six runs with three hits, including a two-run homer. “Hard to put into words, really, when you look up and see 29 runs on the board.”

The Braves had 23 hits, including seven homers, to score the most runs in their history in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta. They topped the old record by six runs. Duvall's enormous night came exactly a week after he hit three home runs in a game at Boston.

“I’ve never seen an offense click like that, all together,” Freeman said.

A day after being shut out by the Marlins on four hits, the Braves erupted. Freeman said he woke up to a text from Snitker saying he'd be hitting second. Travis d’Arnaud had a three-run homer in the second as the new cleanup hitter.

Freeman now expects to be hitting second again.

“I would assume so,” Freeman said. “I think it would be very hard for him to change the lineup after scoring 29 runs.”

The big second inning knocked Pablo López out of the game. Duvall hit another homer, his 12th, in a six-run fifth and added the slam in the seventh off Josh Smith.

“I’ve known that homers come in bunches but something like that is pretty special,” Duvall said. “I’m going to enjoy this one tonight.”

Three runs scored on a sixth-inning double by Ronald Acuña Jr. that gave Atlanta a 25-8 lead and the franchise record for runs in a game.

On Sept. 2, 1957, Hank Aaron and the Milwaukee Braves, the eventual World Series champions, hammered the Chicago Cubs 23-10 at Wrigley Field. That franchise record for runs in a game stood for 63 years. The old Atlanta record was 20 runs, most recently against the Marlins on Oct. 5, 2001.

Ozzie Albies, playing in his first game since Aug. 4 in his return from a wrist injury, had three hits, including a homer. Acuña also hit a three-run homer and drove in five runs.

Five RBI?

“He was third on the team,” Freeman said with a laugh.

Freeman's homer in the third was his 1,500th career hit. Dansby Swanson, who had three hits, Austin Riley and Duvall each scored five runs.

Atlanta's offensive outburst came one day after being shut out 8-0 by Miami for the Braves' second straight loss in the series.

López (3-4) allowed seven runs in only 1 2/3 innings. He had four walks.

“He just seemed to be out of sync early in that game with the walks and wasn’t getting anything really over,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.

Despite the loss, the Marlins took two of three for their first series win in Atlanta since Sept. 12-14, 2016.

Despite the overwhelming run support, Atlanta left-hander Tommy Milone didn't get the win. He allowed eight hits and eight runs in 3 1/3 innings.

Grant Dayton (2-0) got the victory.

Lewis Brinson hit a three-run homer for Miami. Jazz Chisholm, who was hitting .063 through six games, had a run-scoring triple and his first career homer.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Marlins: INF Jon Berti (cut finger) was held out for the second straight day. Mattingly said he wanted to give Berti another day even though Berti was available if needed in an emergency on Tuesday night.

Braves: Albies took swings against LHP Cole Hamels (triceps tendinitis) on Sunday and was impressed. “He looked really good,” Albies said. “He even told me when the cutter was coming and I still missed it.” Hamels will pitch in a simulated game on Friday and could make his 2020 debut next week. ... IF Johan Camargo was optioned to the alternate training site.

OPTING IN

Marlins second baseman Isan Díaz was optioned to the team’s alternate training site in Jupiter, Florida. Díaz was the team’s opening day starter before he opted out after playing in two games due to coronavirus concerns. He changed his mind about playing and successfully petitioned to return.

TOUGH HOMESTAND

The Marlins’ playoff hopes will be on the line when they play 15 games in 11 days in a grueling homestand that opens with seven consecutive games against Philadelphia. The homestand, which begins on Thursday night, includes four doubleheaders.

The Marlins are only 2-9 at home this season. They are 17-9 on the road. Mattingly can’t explain the home struggles.

“I wish I knew that,” Mattingly said. “I don’t know what it is. We just have to get past the home thing. ... Anything I talk about with it, I’m just guessing.”

The amazing numbers behind the Atlanta Braves' 29-run outburst..

The legendary baseball writer Roger Angell turns 100 next week. In his classic book "The Summer Game," he poetically describes his beloved sport: "Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us -- Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass -- swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come."

The Atlanta Braves tried to defeat time on Wednesday and nearly succeeded, scoring 29 runs in their victory over the Miami Marlins. "My favorite urban flower, the baseball box score," Angell once wrote. Well, he will love this box score. The Braves shattered their modern franchise record (since 1900) for runs in a game and just missed the Texas Rangers' record of 30 runs, set in 2007 in a 30-3 victory over the Orioles. The difference in that game? The Rangers were the visiting team and got to bat nine times; indeed, they scored six runs in the ninth inning. The Braves, playing at home, batted only eight times. (In the theater of the absurd department, it's worth noting that the Rangers-Orioles game was the first game of a doubleheader.)

Dansby Swanson and Austin Riley each scored five runs. That's pretty rare. Only Alex Dickerson has also done it this season, and George Springer was the only player to do it in 2019. Neither Swanson nor Riley had the best game of the night.

That honor belongs to Adam Duvall, who went 3-for-4 with two walks, three home runs, five runs and nine RBIs. He tied Tony Cloninger's franchise record for RBIs in a game; Cloninger, a pitcher, hit two grand slams in a game in 1966. Duvall hit three home runs in a game for the second time this season, becoming the first National League player with two three-homer games in a season since Albert Pujols in 2006. Only Sammy Sosa has three three-homer games in a season.

That isn't even the most amazing Duvall three-homer fact. As MLB.com's Sarah Langs pointed out, Duvall is the first player in Braves history with two three-homer games in his career. Yep. Hank Aaron had just one three-homer game for the Braves. Chipper Jones had just one. Dale Murphy, Eddie Mathews, Andruw Jones ... just one. Bob Horner had a four-homer game, but he never had a three-homer game.

Growing up in New York, Angell watched Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig swat home runs at the original Yankee Stadium. I don't know if he watched any of this game, but I can guarantee it was something he had never seen before: It was the first game in MLB history to end 29-9.

The Braves and Marlins combined to score the third-most runs in a game in the modern era. Yes, only in baseball is 1900 considered modern, but we use the 1900 cutoff for a reason. There were many crazy scores in early baseball, when errors were plentiful and the quality of play was obviously of a different standard than today. Indeed, the Boston Beaneaters, the forerunner to the current Braves franchise, scored 30 runs in a game in 1883 and scored 29 just 11 days later. If you care about 1883, this is technically tied for the second-highest scoring game for the Braves.

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Still, 38 combined runs is pretty remarkable. Here are the other three games with at least that many combined runs:

June 9, 1901: Giants 25, Reds 13

Of course, the game was also much different in 1901. The Braves and Marlins combined for nine home runs Wednesday, but there wasn't a single homer in this game. There were, however, 49 hits, including 31 by the Giants. Kip Selbach went 6-for-7, and George Van Haltren and Charlie Hickman each had five hits and five runs. This was the final appearance for Hall of Fame pitcher Amos Rusie, known as the "Hoosier Thunderbolt" for his blazing fastball. He was a star for the Giants in the 1890s but hadn't pitched in the majors in three years when the Reds gave him a chance. He pitched five innings in relief and allowed 15 hits and 10 runs.

May 17, 1979: Phillies 23, Cubs 22

The Phillies scored seven runs in the top of the first. The Cubs responded with six of their own as starters Dennis Lamp of the Cubs and Randy Lerch of the Phillies each recorded just one out. Yes, the wind was blowing out that day at Wrigley, and the teams combined for 11 home runs. Dave Kingman hit three long balls for the Cubs as part of a six-RBI day, and teammate Bill Buckner drove in seven, but Mike Schmidt won it for the Phillies in the 10th inning with a home run off Bruce Sutter.

Aug. 25, 1922: Cubs 26, Phillies 23

Yes, another Phillies-Cubs game at Wrigley Field (then known as Cubs Park). The Cubs scored 10 runs in the second and 14 runs in the fourth. The Phillies rallied late with 14 runs in the final two frames. Hack Miller homered twice and drove in six runs for the Cubs, and teammate Cliff Heathcote had five hits, two walks and five runs. One difference: This game took 3 hours, 1 minute to play; the Marlins and Braves required 4 hours, 14 minutes.

The Braves entered the day hitting .263/.337/.475 as a team while averaging 5.4 runs per game. Now the Braves are hitting .270/.345/.491 and averaging 5.9 runs per game.

The Braves hit 17 balls at 100-plus mph, which, believe it or not, is not a StatCast-era record. The Nationals had 20 100 mph balls in play in a 23-5 win over the Mets in 2017. The Braves' five hardest-hit balls Wednesday:

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1. Acuna, fifth-inning home run off Alex Vesia: 111.5 mph

2. Duvall, seventh-inning grand slam off Josh Smith: 110.4 mph

3. Acuna, eighth-inning fly out off Ryne Stanek: 110.3 mph

4. Freeman, third-inning home run off Jordan Yamamoto: 108.5 mph

5. Freeman, sixth-inning groundout off Smith: 106.8 mph

Duvall's other two home runs were a 106.1 mph blast off Yamamoto and a 101.4 mph one off Yamamoto. Braves Twitter lit up in jubilation -- except for one user named Joe Morales, who posted a crying meme with the words, "Sat Adam Duvall in fantasy."

Yes, it was a bad day for Joe Morales. But it was a historic one for Adam Duvall and the Braves.