ATLANTA -- Dominic Smith's story just continues to get better.
Smith delivered a go-ahead three-run double in the eighth inning of the Braves’ 6-5 comeback win over the Marlins on Tuesday night at Truist Park. The veteran slugger’s clutch delivery comes a little more than two weeks after he hit a walk-off homer in a 10-inning win over the Royals on March 28.
Drake Baldwin sparked Tuesday’s eighth-inning rally with a bloop single and Mike Yastrzemski extended it with a two-out single. After Pete Fairbanks hit Ozzie Albies with a pitch, Smith further damaged the Marlins reliever with a double to the left-center field wall.
Reynaldo López surrendered four runs (three earned) through the first two innings and then he blanked the Marlins over the remainder of his five-inning effort. Miami tallied a run against Robert Suarez in the top of the eighth. But Atlanta came back in the bottom half to set up a rubber match in Wednesday’s series finale.
The Braves are the only MLB team that hasn’t lost a series this season.