Austin Riley and Eddie Rosario both homered, Matt Olson had a two-hit performance to snap an 0-for-22 skid, and Kyle Wright pitched well enough to earn his major-league leading 19th win as the Braves topped the Nationals, 5-2, in the series opener on Monday night. The Braves have now won four straight and nine in a row at Truist Park and improved to 92-55 on the year, while the Nationals fell to 51-96.
Lane Thomas led off the game with a single that rolled just past the glove of Vaughn Grissom, but then Wright got Alex Call to ground into a double play and struck out Luis Garcia.