ATLANTA – Ronald Acuña Jr. has found multiple ways to beat the Miami Marlins this year.
The Atlanta Braves slugger only wishes the season series wasn’t over.
“Yeah, I definitely think it was an appropriate way and a fitting ending to the way we played the Marlins,” he said through a translator. “But I would have much rather hit a home run against them.”
Acuña hit an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning as the Braves won their fifth straight game, finishing off the Marlins 3-2 on Thursday night at SunTrust Park.
Freddie Freeman hit a tying homer in the eighth as the Braves sent Miami to its 12th road loss in a row, the longest streak in the majors this year, to put a bow on their dominance of the season series between the National League East Division’s best team and its worst. Atlanta swept this week’s three-game set and went 15-4 against the Marlins this year.