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Austin Riley falls triple short of cycle in win

Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

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Austin Riley went 3-for-4 with a solo home run, double, and two runs scored on Wednesday against the Mets.

Riley looked like his old self in this game. He demolished his home run at 108.5 mph off the bat and hammered it an estimated 438 feet. In total, he had four hard-hit balls and nearly hit for the cycle, but Luis Robert Jr. made a nice play in the right center field gap on him in the eighth inning. If that would’ve gotten down, Riley could’ve gotten three out of it. Nevertheless, another miserable season has forced the Braves to drop Riley to eighth in their lineup, but he has an .806 OPS and six home runs over his last 30 games.

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Austin Riley went 1-for-3 with a homer in Friday’s 3-2 loss to the Yankees.

Riley broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning when he blasted a solo shot off Yankees reliever Fernando Cruz to put the Braves up 1-0. It was the 14th homer of the season for Riley, who has already homered twice in the month of August while driving in seven runs.
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ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley hit a two-run homer to help Atlanta to a 4-2 win over the Marlins on Tuesday.

Riley extended the lead for Atlanta to 3-0 with a mammoth shot off John King. The 29-year-old also singled, but the two reach game still has his slash at a orderline unusable .220/.296/.360. There’s just enough time to turn some of those numbers around, but it’s hard to be too optimistic based on what he’s done in 2026.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley isn’t in Atlanta’s starting lineup for Thursday night’s tilt with the Nationals.

Riley had a two-homer game against the Rangers on July 19, and since then he’s hit .162/.225/.189 with no homers and one stolen base. Riley hasn’t been good all season and it wouldn’t be surprising if the Braves started to cut his playing time down the stretch, though there’s nothing to suggest at this point that this is more than a routine day off.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley homered twice in a win over the Rangers on Sunday while driving in four runs.

Riley hit a pair of solo homers off Nathan Eovaldi, and he also had a two-run single for good measure. The 29-year-old has not had nearly enough games like this in 2026, as made evident in his slash still sitting at .217/.296/.361 over the first 98 games of the campaign. It’s hard to completely write off Riley because there are flashes of what made him one of the best players at the hot corner in baseball, but it’s still hard to have too much optimism at this stage.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley had three of the game’s 11 hits in the Braves’ 1-0 loss to the Padres on Monday.

Riley wasn’t very good last year and certainly hasn’t been any good in batting .219/.295/.355 this season, but it’d still be very dangerous to write him off while his power remains intact. Maybe he won’t fully rebound, but it’s hard to imagine him not being somewhat better the rest of the way.
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Austin Riley went 3-for-5 with a run batted in on Wednesday against the Giants.

Still patiently waiting for Riley to turn the corner, it was nice to see him have such a strong game. Apart from the three hits, he had four hard-hit balls. Still, eight home runs and a .206 batting average are still completely inexcusable as we approach the halfway point in the season.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley is out of the lineup for Saturday’s contest against the Reds.

It’s an extremely rare off day for Riley, who is hitting .242 (23-for-95) with five homers and 14 RBI since the start of May. The decision enables Atlanta to get Mauricio Dubón in the lineup at the hot corner to face Reds righty Brady Singer.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

After going 0-for-8 the last two days, Austin Riley has been dropped to seventh in the Braves lineup for Wednesday’s game.

Walt Weiss sure does love to tinker. He also has Michael Harris II batting second for the first time tonight. Ozzie Albies is in the cleanup spot. Riley is back down to .211/.279/.368 for the season after the last two games. He’s hit .250 with four homers and 11 RBI in 17 games this month, but that has come with a poor 22/2 K/BB.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley went 2-for-4 with a homer, a double, three RBI, and two runs scored in the Braves’ 8-1 victory over the Red Sox on Sunday.

Riley’s homer was a three-run blast in the second inning off Brayan Bello, giving Atlanta a lead they wouldn’t surrender. It hasn’t yet been the bounce-back season many fantasy managers were hoping for, but he’s hit better in May, with four of his seven homers coming this month. Riley entered Sunday with a barrel rate below 10 percent for the first time in his career, but his track record remains worth betting on just like it was back in draft season. The Braves visit the Marlins for a four-game set before returning home to face the Nationals next weekend.
Austin Riley

ATL 3rd Baseman #27

Austin Riley went 1-for-3 with a two-run homer in a blowout win for Atlanta on Saturday over the Rockies.

Riley has been awful to begin the season, but after a two-hit game Friday, the 29-year-old had one of his best games of 2026. He not only hit his third homer, but he also stole his third base, drew a walk and scored a couple of runs. Even with the solid contest, he’s still slashing .205/.287/.346, but fantasy managers know what kind of runs Riley is capable of going on. Perhaps this is the start.

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Nationals 1B/3B prospect Yohandy Morales went 1-for-5 with an RBI for Triple-A Rochester on Wednesday.

Morales had been sidelined for three weeks with an undisclosed injury, but he has gone 7-for-21 with two home runs and four RBI in his five games since returning. The 40th-overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft is hitting .297/.374/.544 in 89 Triple-A games this season with 23 home runs, 66 RBI, and five steals. He should get a shot with the Nationals at some point to end the year.
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Christian Moore

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Christian Moore went 3-for-4 with a double, a steal, and a run scored for Triple-A Salt Lake on Wednesday.

Moore is hitting .309/.436/.518 with 10 home runs, 57 RBI, and 14 steals in 80 Triple-A games. Meanwhile, Denzer Guzman is hitting .157 in 16 games since the All-Star break and has just a .626 OPS in 49 MLB games this season.
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Freddie Freeman

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The Dodgers are calling Freddie Freeman day-to-day after his fall into the Royals dugout during Wednesday’s game.

Freeman, who was hurt chasing after a foul popup, said he mostly fell on his left hand and shoulder, but he didn’t expect to need X-rays on anything and is hoping to be in the lineup Thursday.
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Corey Seager

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Corey Seager homered and doubled in a loss to the Angels on Wednesday.

Seager also singled in one of the better offensive games of the season for the 32-year-old. Unfortunately, that’s not the compliment it should be, as Seager is still hitting just .202/.300/.395. It’s too late for Seager to justify where he was drafted, but based on his track record, it’s hard to imagine those numbers aren’t going to jump up over these final six weeks.
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Mike Trout

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Mike Trout went 3-for-5 and drove in two runs in the Angels’ 5-2 win over the Rangers on Wednesday.

All three hits for Trout were singles up the middle. The future Hall of Famer has now driven in 44 runs, which says more about the hitters that bat behind Trout than anything else. It’s his first multi-hit game in August, and hopefully for fantasy managers/people who like watching historic baseball players succeed, not the last.
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Ben Joyce

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Ben Joyce hurled a scoreless ninth inning to get a save against the Rangers on Wednesday.

Joyce threw three pitches over 100 mph, including one that clocked at 103.4. The flamethrower has his first save of 2026, and while the Angels won’t provide a ton of chances for reasons that aren’t Joyce’s fault, it seems very likely he’ll see more over the final 40 or so games.
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George Klassen picked up a win after allowing just two runs over six innings against the Rangers on Wednesday.

It’s the first win of the season for Klassen. The outing didn’t get off to a glowing start, as he walked in a run in the second and then gave up a solo homer to Corey Seager an inning later. From that point on, Klassen completely shut down the Texas bats, and lowered his ERA to a still unhealthy 5.86 in the process. Speaking of process, it’d be a mistake in it to trust Klassen as a streamer despite this strong effort when he faces the Astros next week.
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Cal Quantrill struck out six over five innings of one-run baseball, but didn’t factor into the decision against the Angels on Wednesday.

Quantrill did walk three, but he was able to keep that self-inflicted damage at bay while allowing just a Mike Trout RBI single. The 31-year-old has been a pleasant surprise at the back of the Texas rotation, and now has a 3.44 ERA for his trouble. He’ll get a chance to lower it next week against the Nationals, if the Rangers’ rotation order doesn’t change.
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Julio Rodríguez went 1-for-3 with two walks and a solo home run against the Yankees.

Rodríguez’ home run was his 19th of the year. He hit a solo shot off Will Warren in the first inning. Rodríguez now has three home runs in his last seven games. His ISO is .171 this year after posting ISOs of at least .207 in three of the first four years of his career. He’s hitting .257 with a .752 OPS and 52 RBI.
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Trent Grisham

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Trent Grisham went 3-for-4 with three runs scored, two home runs and four RBI against the Mariners on Wednesday.

Grisham now has 15 home runs on the season. He hit a solo shot off Bryce Miller in the sixth inning and a two-run shot off Mariners reliever Nick Davila in the eighth inning. Grisham’s power is noticeably down from his career-high 34 home run season last year. He’s hitting .222 with a .732 OPS and 50 RBI.
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