MIAMI - William Contreras homered twice, and Ronald Acuña Jr. extended his two-season on-base streak to 28 games as the Atlanta Braves beat the Miami Marlins 4-3 on Saturday night.
Acuña singled, walked twice, stole a base and scored a run. His string began last summer and was interrupted when the young outfielder injured his knee in Miami on July 10, ending his season just before he was due to make his second MLB All-Star Game appearance in four years in the majors.
The Braves led 4-2 when closer Kenley Jansen struck out the first two batters in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Jacob Stallings then walked, Jazz Chisholm Jr. had an infield single and Garrett Cooper hit an RBI double.
Jansen struck out Jorge Soler, the MVP of the World Series for Atlanta last year, to get his 10th save this season and the 360th of his career. It clinched a series win for Atlanta in a three-game set between National League East Division rivals.
"When you've got 350, 360 saves, I'm sure not all of them are pretty, not all of them are real clean" Braves manager Brian Snitker said. "In order to get that many you better be able to weather the storm like he does. He's got another gear, too, when he gets in trouble."
Kyle Wright (4-2) pitched five scoreless innings of two-hit ball. He walked three batters and struck out six on 91 pitches.
"I was really eager to get down and battle," Wright said. "I think after the first inning, I was able to settle down a bit. From that point on, I was able to mix my pitches."
Contreras' home run in the fifth put Atlanta ahead 1-0. He drove a fastball from Elieser Hernández (2-4) over the wall in right-center field for his fifth homer of the year. Contreras went deep again in the seventh against reliever Cody Poteet with an opposite-field shot to right. It was Contreras' second multihomer game this season and ended Poteet's scoreless innings string at 16 1/3.
"I was looking for my pitch to hit, and I was very relaxed at the plate," Contreras said through a translator.
Marcell Ozuna and Adam Duvall hit RBI singles in the sixth for Atlanta.
Chisholm limped noticeably after getting spiked in the left leg on Ozzie Albies' unsuccessful steal attempt of second in the eighth. Chisholm hustled to beat out the grounder to reach in the ninth.
"Got hit with a spike on that slide," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. "Where that goes, I'm not sure."
Soler had an RBI double off Atlanta reliever Darren O'Day in the sixth. Brian Anderson added an RBI grounder off A.J. Minter in the eighth that got Miami within 4-2.
The Marlins were 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position after a 1-for-11 performance Friday, when Atlanta won 5-3. Their homer streak also ended at 13 games, one shy of the club record in 2008.
Hernández allowed one run and three hits in five innings, walking one batters and striking out five.
The Braves completed a rare double play that not only thwarted a Marlins scoring opportunity but ended the fourth inning.
Jesús Sánchez hit a one-out triple. With a drawn-in infield, Bryan De La Cruz followed with a hard grounder to shortstop Dansby Swanson, who caught Sánchez in a rundown between third base and home plate. Third baseman Austin Riley eventually tagged Sánchez and then found De La Cruz drifting from first. Miami's second rundown of the play ended in another out as second baseman Ozzie Albies tagged De La Cruz.
"That's my decision," Mattingly said of sending Sánchez. "We're going on contact there. We're going to try to score there. We're at that part of the order, and we're going to take a chance there."