Atlanta Braves rewrite history with beating of Miami Marlins

The Milwaukee Brewers had given a small hint of what the day would be like in the MLB by beating the Detroit Tigers 19-0 in someone else’s park, but this was far from what happened hours later at Truist Park with the victory of the Atlanta Braves 29-9 over the Miami Marlins.

Georgia’s ninth broke out from the second inning with 11 runs in the bottom of the second roll and they didn’t stop scoring runs until Florida’s pitching finally hung up a hoop in the eighth.

Adam Duvall was the leading voice for the Braves with three home runs in four plate appearances that accounted for nine runs for the NL East leaders, followed by Freddie Freeman who drove six teammates to the plate and finally Ronald Acuña Jr. with five.

Here are the best figures left by the Braves’ beating of the Marlins in a historic day for MLB:

– Atlanta had not achieved such many runs since June 20, 1883. In the same year they had managed 30 in a game, but they did so under the nickname of Boston Beaneaters.

– The Braves won by 20 runs for the first time since 1898 and it is the first time the Marlins have fallen by that margin in their history.

– Adam Duvall hit three home runs and drove in nine runs, becoming the first Braves player to have two games with at least three homers in the same season.

– He is the second player in the history of Georgia’s ninth to get nine RBI (Tony Cloninger).

– 18 of the 29 runs that Atlanta got were by way of the home run, the second team to reach this number (Texas Rangers, 2007).

– It is the first time in MLB history that a game ends with that score (29-9).

– .