ATLANTA – Freddie Freeman and Dansby Swanson homered, Huascar Ynoa won his fourth straight start and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-1 on Sunday night to take two of three in the series between division rivals.
Freeman, the reigning National League MVP who began the game 1-for-24 in May, hit his ninth homer of the season, a solo shot, to make it 5-1 in the third as the Braves won their second straight game and fifth of six. Freeman finished 3-for-3 and reached base four times, raising his batting average 20 points to .217.
Aaron Nola (3-2) took the loss after allowing four runs, five hits and one walk with four strikeouts in four innings.
Ynoa (4-1) gave up one run, four hits and one walk with six strikeouts in six innings. He pitched out of a jam in the third after Andrew McCutchen walked and Jean Segura singled, striking out Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto and retiring Alec Bohm on a dribbler in front of the plate.
Ynoa otherwise faced no major threats. In his past four starts, the 22-year-old right-hander has a 1.11 ERA – and in four starts at Truist Park this season he has a 1.54 ERA with 30 strikeouts in 23 1/3 innings.