Double duty: Atlanta’s Acuna hits 2 leadoff HRs

Perfect games? Unassisted triple plays? They’re not even as rare as what Ronald Acuna Jr. pulled off Monday night.

His legend growing with each game, the 20-year-old rookie hit leadoff homers in both games of a doubleheader to lead the first-place Atlanta Braves to a sweep of the Miami Marlins in Atlanta.

Acuna appeared to be only the fourth player in baseball history to accomplish the feat, and certainly the youngest.

Two others, Rickey Henderson and Harry Hooper, are in the Hall of Fame.

By comparison, there have been 23 perfect games and 15 unassisted triple plays.

“It’s pretty special,” said Braves star Freddie Freeman, who also homered in Game 2. “He’s some kind of hot right now. What he’s doing at the plate, you just don’t see it very often.”

Acuna hit an opposite-field drive into the Braves’ bullpen in the opener, powering Atlanta to a 9-1 victory.

In the nightcap, Acuna sent a towering shot into the seats in left-center, sparking the Braves to a 6-1 win.

Acuna went 5 for 8 with two homers, five RBIs, five runs, two walks and a stolen base. RANGERS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 3 >> Bartolo Colon (7-10) won his first start since setting the record for victories by a Latin American pitcher, going five innings to help Texas win at home. Robinson Chirinos hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the fourth to end Arizona righthander Zack Greinke’s streak of nine straight starts allowing two runs or fewer.

TIGERS 9, WHITE SOX 5 >> Nicholas Castellanos had a careerhigh five hits, including a goahead homer in the seventh inning, and drove in five runs as host Detroit beat Chicago. He came up in the eighth with the bases loaded and two outs, needing a triple for the cycle, but settled for a two-run single.