CHICAGO - Willson Contreras had three hits and stole a base while playing against younger brother William for the first time, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the Atlanta Braves 6-3 on Saturday.
Chicago won a day after ending its 10-game losing streak and also stopping the Braves' 14-game winning streak in a 1-0 game.
The Contreras brothers both started at catcher, marking the first time they shared a field. They hugged before the 30-year-old Willson, a two-time All-Star, singled in the first inning. He then stole second base against his 24-year-old brother, later scoring on Jonathan Villar's two-run single.
"That's 1-0," Willson said. "I didn't want to get beat by my younger brother. I'm pretty sure he was thinking the same thing. We're professionals. We love our teams."
The brothers are the first to start at catcher in the same game since Yadier Molina for the St. Louis Cardinals and José Molina for the Tampa Bay Rays on June 10, 2014, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"From my first at-bat, when I gave him a hug, I was proud," Willson said. "Even before the game, I was trying to keep myself together."
Willson later doubled and drove in a run.
"During his last at-bat, he came up and he was looking at me and he said, 'What are you looking at?'" said William, who had two hits for the Braves. "I looked right back and said, 'What are you looking at?' That was probably the only kind of jokey moment of the day."
William singled in the second inning but was forced out at second base on an unusual double play. Adam Duvall hit a fly ball to shallow right that fell among three fielders, Contreras was forced out at second and Duvall, who had headed back to the dugout before getting pushed toward the bag by first base coach Eric Young Sr., was called out.
"I would imagine Adam thought there were three outs," Braves manager Brian Snitker said.
Justin Steele (2-5) got his first win since his season debut April 9 against the Milwaukee Brewers. He allowed two runs and five hits in five innings.
Kyle Wright (7-4) gave up five runs and a career-high 11 hits in six innings.
"I didn't feel like I gave up that many hits," he said. "I thought I executed pretty good, got some soft contact but put the ball in play, and some things happen sometimes. Give them credit."
Rafael Ortega homered and Alfonso Rivas and Andrelton Simmons each had two hits for the Cubs.
Duvall, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Michael Harris II had a pair of hits for the Braves. Atlanta hasn't lost a season series against the Cubs since 2017 and needs to win Sunday to split this year. Also at stake is avoiding what would be the Braves' first three-game losing streak of the season.
The Cubs extended their lead to 3-0 on Acuña's throwing error on Willson Contreras' single to right field in the second. They made it 4-0 on Jason Heyward's double that bounced away from Duvall in left in the third.
Duvall homered in the fifth. The Braves lead the National League in homers this year, but they have just one in the first two games of this series.
Austin Riley's bases-loaded sacrifice fly pulled Atlanta within 4-2 in the fifth. Heyward made a sliding catch on Marcell Ozuna's flyball to right for the third out.