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Acuña reaches 40 homer mark as Braves knock off Phillies, 5-4

A pair of home runs from Ronald Acuña Jr. and Austin Riley helped give the Braves the offensive production that they needed to get past a feisty Phillies team and get even closer to finally clinching their second consecutive NL East title.

It took a while for some scoring to materialize, but it happened in the third inning with two outs and it came from a man who is currently chasing history. Ronald Acuña Jr. put the Braves on the board with a massive dinger that landed in the Hank Aaron Terrace for two runs.