MIAMI -- Mike Yastrzemski fell a triple short of the cycle Thursday in the Braves’ 9-3 win over the Marlins at loanDepot park.
Yastrzemski took Sandy Alcantara deep in the top of the second for his third homer of the season. He sent a 90.8 mph changeup for a Statcast-projected 398 feet to right-center field -- with the ball landing in the same artificial grass area in right-center field that Michael Harris II had homered to earlier in the game. It was Harris' first of two long balls in the win.
In the opening frame, Harris homered off the same offering from Alcantara, earning his 10th homer of the season and bringing in Ronald Acuña Jr., who exited as a precaution after the 5th inning with left thumb pain
Alcantara came into the night, allowing only four home runs in 61 2/3 innings pitched this season, going 28-consecutive innings without surrendering a long ball.
In the fifth, Yastrzemski singled and later scored after an Acuña RBI single. He followed that up in the sixth with a double, driving in Dominic Smith, finishing the night 3-for-3 with 2 RBIs.
With the win, the Braves earned their 14th series victory through 16 this season, with their only series loss coming against the Mariners in early May.