Braves Briefing: Atlanta wins, Ronald Acuña Jr. is ridiculous

The Atlanta Braves picked up another win on the young MLB season as the offense struck early against the St. Louis Cardinals and they won 8-4 to improve to 3-1 on the year.

Ronald Acuña's start to his career is ridiculous

Acuña entered last night's game with 297 RBIs. He reached 300 RBIs in his career after hitting a three-run homer last night.

Per a tweet from Grant McAuley, Acuña Jr. has batted lead-off 427 times and has hit 27 lead-off home runs. Rickey Henderson has the all-time record with 81 home runs in 2,875 games as a lead-off hitter. Acuña Jr. is over double Henderson's pace at just 25 years old.

NL East Standings

Atlanta moved up after the New York Mets lost 10-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers. We posted our NL East Power Rankings yesterday for a deeper dive.

Atlanta 3-1 (Plays @ St. Louis)
NYM 3-2 (Plays @ Milwaukee)
Washington 1-3 (Plays vs Tampa Bay)
Miami 1-3 (Plays vs Minnesota)
Philadelphia (Plays @ NYY)

READ: NL East power rankings after the season's first series

We wrote it

I wrote the takeaways for last night's win. The big part of the first three wins this year for Atlanta has been scoring early.

In three of the four games on the young season for Atlanta, they've scored multiple runs in the first two innings. On Opening Day, they scored two runs in the second. In game two against the Nationals, Atlanta scored two in the first. Monday night, the Braves got six men across home plate in the first two innings.
The only game where they didn't score early was the loss on Sunday.
The Braves' offense hit three home runs off of St. Louis Cardinals starter Jake Woodford in the first two innings of action. Austin Riley hit the farthest home run of his career, Ozzie Albies hit a shot that scored two, and Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a three-run home run that kind of felt like a dagger in the second inning of the action to give Atlanta a 6-1 lead.

Check out the full takeaways here.

What's next

The Atlanta Braves take on the St. Louis Cardinals in the second game of the series Tuesday at 7:45 pm ET from Busch Stadium. The broadcast, with Voice of the Braves Brandon Gaudin, is available inside Braves Country on Bally Sports Southeast, and is available on MLB.TV outside of the broadcast area. The radio call, with Ben Ingram, is available locally on 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan or outside the Atlanta market on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network or MLB.com.

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NL East Power Rankings

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