Field Level Media
Matt Olson homered in his homecoming and the visiting Atlanta Braves overcame a rare poor effort by Kyle Wright to outlast the Oakland Athletics 10-9 in the opener of a two-game interleague series Tuesday night.
Playing in Oakland for the first time since getting traded in March, Olson hit a three-run homer in the third and the Braves led almost the whole way. Atlanta also scored three times in the first and fifth innings en route to a sixth consecutive victory.
Oakland fell for a fifth time in its past six games despite hitting three homers -- back-to-back shots by Sean Murphy and Seth Brown in a four-run third and a three-run blast by pinch hitter Chad Pinder that drew the hosts to a 9-9 tie in the fifth after they had trailed by as many as five runs.