Elder returns to majors, stops Marlins; their gaffe on the bases helps Braves
ATLANTA
Travis d’Arnaud continued his power binge with another home run, and Bryce Elder returned from the minor leagues to throw 62⁄3 scoreless innings and help Atlanta beat the Marlins 3-0 on Monday night.
The Braves won for the seventh time in eight games, and they improved to 3-1 against the Marlins this season. Miami has alternated wins and losses through the past five games.
D’Arnaud homered for the fifth time in his past three starts, with his tworun blast in the fourth inning opening the scoring.
Elder, an All-Star last year who started the season with Triple A Gwinnett, was recalled Monday for his first-major league appearance of the season. He scattered eight hits, did not walk a batter and struck out four.
Miami starter Ryan Weathers (2-2) pitched 52⁄3 innings and allowed three runs on six hits and three walks with one strikeout.
A baserunning blunder cost the Marlins a run in the first inning. Luis Arraez failed to score from second base on a double by Jazz Chisholm Jr. off the wall in right-center. Arraez was thrown out at the plate by center fielder Michael Harris II.
MLB.com wrote that Arraez received a stop sign from third-base coach Griffin Benedict while rounding third, but trail runner Bryan De La Cruz wasn’t paying attention and was already approaching third. With Chisholm at second, Arraez was forced to go home.
Marlins manager Skip Schumaker told reporters that with no outs and runners on first and second, Arraez did what he was supposed to: be close enough to tag up at second to get to third on a ball that would have been a home run in many ballparks.
If De La Cruz had been aware that Benedict was holding Arraez, the Marlins could have had the
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bases loaded with none out. Instead, Josh Bell and Jesus Sanchez flied out to end the inning.
The Braves scored all three runs in the fourth inning. Marcell Ozuna walked and d’Arnaud pulled a changeup that hit the foul pole in left field. Adam Duvall walked, took second on Harris’ groundout and scored on David Fletcher’s single. It was Fletcher’s hit since joining the Braves on April 16.
Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. singled and stole second base in the first inning. The steal was the 190th of his career, setting an Atlanta-era franchise record.
Elder was 12-4 in 2023 with a 3.81 ERA, but his performance dipped in the latter part of the season. He was sent to the minors last month after a rough spring training — he gave up 11 earned runs and 15 hits in 12 innings for an ERA of 8.25
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Baltimore New York Toronto Boston Tampa Bay Central
Cleveland Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Chicago West
Texas Seattle
Los Angeles Oakland Houston
East
Atlanta Philadelphia New York Washington Miami Central
Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis West
Los Angeles San Diego Arizona
S.F. Colorado
W
15 15 13 13 12 W
16 13 13 8 3 W
12 11 9 9 7
W
15 15 12 10 6 W
14 13 12 12 10 W
13 13 11 11 5
L
7 8 10 10 12
L
6 10 10 13 19
L
11 11 14 14 16
L
6 8 10 11 18
L
7 9 10 11 13
L
11 12 13 13 18
Pct
.682 .652 .565 .565 .500
Pct
.727 .565 .565 .381 .136
Pct
.522 .500 .391 .391 .304
Pct
.714 .652 .545 .476 .250
Pct
.667 .591 .545 .522 .435
Pct
.542 .520 .458 .458 .217
— — 21⁄2 — 21⁄2 — 4 11⁄2 GB WCGB
— — 31⁄2 — 31⁄2 — 71⁄2 4 13 91⁄2 GB WCGB
— 11⁄2 4 4 6
GB WCGB
— — 1 — 31⁄2 1 5 21⁄2 101⁄2 8 GB WCGB
— — 11⁄2 — 21⁄2 1 3 11⁄2 5 31⁄2 GB WCGB
— 11⁄2 3 3 81⁄2
WEDNESDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore (Kremer 0-2) at L.A. Angels (Anderson 2-2),4:07
Boston at Cleveland (Carrasco 1-1),6:10 Detroit (Flaherty 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Alexander 1-0),6:50
Oakland (Boyle 1-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Schmidt 1-0),7:05
Toronto (Rodriguez 0-0) at Kansas City (Marsh 3-0),7:40
Chi. White Sox (Crochet 1-3) at Minnesota (Ryan 0-1),7:40
Seattle (Miller 3-1) at Texas,8:05
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Arizona (Montgomery 1-0) at St. Louis (Gibson 1-2),1:15
N.Y. Mets (Manaea 1-1) at S.F. (Snell 0-3),3:45
Philadelphia (Turnbull 2-0) at Cincinnati (Lodolo 2-0),6:40
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (Priester 0-1),6:40
L.A. Dodgers (Knack 0-1) at Washington (Irvin 1-1),6:45
Miami at Atlanta (Lopez 2-0),7:20
San Diego (Waldron 0-2) at Colorado,8:40
INTERLEAGUE
Houston (Arrighetti 0-2) at Chi. Cubs (Taillon 1-0),7:40
TUESDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston at Cleveland
Detroit at Tampa Bay Oakland at N.Y. Yankees Toronto at Kansas City
Chi. White Sox at Minnesota Seattle at Texas
Baltimore at L.A. Angels
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia at Cincinnati Milwaukee at Pittsburgh L.A. Dodgers at Washington
Miami at Atlanta
Arizona at St. Louis
GB WCGB —
—
3 3 5
—
2 2 71⁄2
INTERLEAGUE Houston at Chi. Cubs
MONDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Oakland 2, N.Y. Yankees 0 Detroit 7, Tampa Bay 1 Toronto 5, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 7, Chi. White Sox 0 Baltimore 4, L.A. Angels 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 7, Cincinnati 0 Pittsburgh 4, Milwaukee 2
Atlanta 3, Miami 0
St. Louis 5, Arizona 3
San Diego 3, Colorado 1
San Francisco 5, N.Y. Mets 2
Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Arraez 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .276 B.De La Cruz dh 4 0 1 0 0 2 .273 Chisholm Jr. cf 4 0 2 0 0 1 .256 Bell 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .193 J.Sanchez rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .218 Ti.Anderson ss 4 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Gordon lf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .220 Rivera 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .225 Fortes c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .116
Totals 32 0 8 0 0 7 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Acuna Jr. rf 5 0 1 0 0 1 .293 Arcia ss 4 0 2 0 0 0 .338 Riley 3b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .250 M.Olson 1b 3 0 0 0 1 0 .222 Ozuna dh 3 1 0 0 1 0 .325 D’Arnaud c 4 1 2 2 0 1 .273 Duvall lf 3 1 0 0 1 1 .182 Harris II cf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .307 Da.Fletcher 2b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .167 Kelenic ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .326 Guillorme 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188
Totals 32 3 8 3 5 4
Miami 000 000 000 — 0 8 0 Atlanta 000 300 00x — 3 8 0
LOB—Miami 6, Atlanta 10.2B—Arcia
(9), Chisholm Jr. (5).HR—D’Arnaud (5), off Weathers.RBIs—Da.Fletcher (1), D’Arnaud 2 (14).SB—Acuna Jr. (10), Harris II 2 (4).
GIDP—Rivera, J.Sanchez. DP—Atlanta 2 (Arcia, Da.Fletcher, M.Olson), (M.Olson, Arcia, Elder).
Runners left in scoring position—Miami 3 (Gordon, J.Sanchez 2); Atlanta 6 (Acuna Jr., Da.Fletcher 2, Ozuna 3).
Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Weathers 52⁄3 6 3 3 3 1 96 3.16 L,2-2
B.Smith 11⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 26 4.22 Cronin 1 1 0 0 1 3 23 2.16
Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Elder W, 1-0 62⁄3 8 0 0 0 4 87 0.00 Johnson H,2 0 0 0 0 1 5 3.60 Minter H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 1.64 Iglesias S,7-7 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.16
Inherited runners-scored—Johnson 1-0, B.Smith 2-0.HBP—by Elder (Bell).
Umpires—Home, James Hoye; First, Rob Drake; Second, Jonathan Parra; Third,
John Libka.
T—2:16.A—31,572 (41,500).
BATTING
Longest current batting streak ... 11, Turner, Phi, Apr 11 to Apr 22.
Longest season batting streak ... 17, Ozuna, Atl, Mar 30 to Apr 19.
PITCHING
Longest current winning streak ... 4, Suarez, Phi, Apr 6 to Apr 22.
Longest current losing streak ... 4, Puk, Mia, Mar 29 to Apr 19; Hudson, Col, Apr 1 to Apr 20.
TEAM
Longest current winning streak ... 7,
Phi, Apr 15 to Apr 22.
Longest current road-win streak ... 4, Atl, Apr 14 to Apr 17.
Longest losing streak, season ... 9, Mia, Mar 28 to Apr 6.
Longest home-loss streak, season ... 8, Mia, Mar 28 to Apr 12.