A day after racking up 10 RBIs(!!), Braves prospect hits three home runs(!!)
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What a weekend it's been for Dixon Williams.
Less than 24-hours after logging the Minors' first non-complex 10-RBI game since 2024, the Braves infield prospect made some more history, going 4-for-6 with three homers and six RBIs in High-A Rome's 16-14 loss to Asheville on Sunday at HomeTrust Park.
Over the course of two games, Williams went 8-for-11 with five homers, 16 RBIs, six runs and 24 total bases. For context, no Major Leaguer has gone yard five times and driven in 16 runs in a two-game span since RBIs became a stat in 1920. And the 24 bases? Only three big leaguers have reached, and in their cases, eclipsed that mark with 25 -- Ty Cobb with the Tigers (May 5-6, 1925), Joe Adcock with the Milwaukee Braves (July 30-31,1954) and Sean Green with the Dodgers (June 27-28, 2002).
Williams started his latest power surge in the first inning with a solo shot over the right-field wall off right-hander Dylan Howard (Astros).
After flying out in the third, he returned to the dish in the fifth with runners on first and second. Williams ambushed another first-pitch offering, turning on a fastball from righty Max Martin and sending this second long ball of the game into the trees beyond the wall in right. This season against first-pitch offerings, the 22-year-old sports an .890 OPS.
In the seventh and one on, Williams caught up to righty Francisco Frias' 96 mph fastball and lofted it over the center-field wall for his fifth homer in nine at-bats and his 19th of the season.
The East Carolina product capped his first career multihomer game with some small ball, he beat out an infield single in the eighth.
It was like an exclamation point (or three) to his weekend after the mammoth 10-RBI performance on Saturday night, when 136th overall Draft pick in 2025 went 4-for-5 with two home runs.
Half of Williams' RBIs came in the first two innings as he followed a first-inning sacrifice fly to center with a grand slam to right-center in the second off right-hander Parker Smith.
Hitting with runners in scoring position is something Williams has done well in 2026, posting a 1.050 OPS and a .648 slugging percentage.
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In the fourth, Williams and Smith squared off again. With two runners on and one away, the center fielder stayed back on a 1-1 curveball and hooked an RBI single into right. In the fifth, he lined an RBI double into the right-field corner.
Williams, whom the Braves drafted with the compensation pick they received for Max Fried departing in free agency, has logged 39 extra-base hits with the Emperors, which ranks fifth among all qualified Braves Minor Leaguers this season.
After grounding out in the seventh, the North Carolina native came to the plate one last time in the ninth. With runners on first and second, Williams turned on a 2-0 middle-middle fastball from righty Joan Ogando and launched it deep into the night.
Over 92 games played this season, Williams' 76 RBIs rank second in Atlanta's system to Rome teammate Luis Guanipa (ATL No. 22) with 79.