The National League’s two best teams are competing with playoff intensity already as their much-anticipated four-game set begins with a thriller.
LOS ANGELES — If this is how the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves are going to have at it at the end of August and the start of September, trading haymakers and bringing huge and raucous crowds to full voice, just imagine what an October series between the National League’s two best teams would be like.
Beyond the implications – it was his 30th home run, which made him the first player to have 30 homers and 60 steals in a major league season, and it had Braves partisans woofing on social media as if the MVP race had been decided right then and there – it was just the exclamation point on a very good day. Acuña got married earlier Thursday, and maybe there was some karma involved.
Michael Busch might be a quick learner. Batting eighth as the DH on Thursday night as part of a string of five straight left-handed hitters against Braves right-hander Spencer Strider, Busch whacked a home run down the right field line in the seventh off Joe Jiménez, two batters before Betts hit his second.
“You see that kind of atmosphere, it’s good because they’re going to have to make decisions for the roster, for playoffs. And so it’s always good to see how guys can perform.”
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