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Olson

Olson continues his impressive campaign, albeit in a walk-off loss to the White Sox. The 32-year-old blistered a two-run homer in the first inning, and then connected on a solo shot in the third. That’s now 19 homers on the season for Olson, and he’s plated 50 runs over 66 games. Olson is now on a 45-homer pace, and while he hasn’t reached those heights over his last two campaigns — 29 homers in the previous two seasons — he’s obviously more than capable of reaching that total with his prestigious pop.

Olson’s home run was his 17th of the season. He started the sixth inning by hitting a solo shot off Kevin Gausman. Olson’s home run was the deciding run of the game. He’s hitting .265 with 46 RBI and a .901 OPS.

There was social media speculation about a potential elbow issue for Olson during Friday’s series opener at Truist Park, which makes it notable that his streak of consecutive starts, the longest active in baseball, continues. He’s played 827 straight games since May 2, 2021.

Olson has been on fire at the dish. He kept it going on Tuesday with a base hit and a run scored in the fourth inning before taking Andrés Muñoz deep for a solo homer in the ninth to give the Braves the lead. It was his sixth home run in nine games. The 32-year-old slugger is up to 13 while hitting .308/.392/.695 with 35 runs scored and 33 RBI across 166 plate appearances.

After falling barely shy of 30-homer and 100-RBI seasons the last two years, it doesn’t look like Olson intends to leave anything to chance this season. He’s already racked up 12 homers and 32 RBI in 36 games and is on the short list of NL MVP candidates to date.

It was a garbage-time homer for Olson as it came with Atlanta already leading 8-1. Still counts. The 32-year-old has been outstanding to open the year, as this was already his 11th homer of the season, and he’s now slugging .639 on the campaign.

Olson is locked in right now. He came to the plate with his Braves down one against Kenley Jansen and smashed a walk-off, two-run shot. Earlier in this game, he also had batted balls hit at 111.5 mph and 108.9 mph. Again, he is on fire with a .306 batting average, 1.087 OPS, and nine home runs through nearly one month of play.

Olson set the tone early in this one, launching a 3-1 fastball from Aaron Nola for a 399-foot (105.4 mph EV) three-run shot that proved to be all the run support that Chris Sale and company would require in this one. Olson is off to a tremendous start to the 2026 campaign, slashing .296/.374/.609 with eight homers and 25 RBI.

Olson is off to a terrific start, hitting .282/.359/.592 with seven homers in his first 26 games. This was more of a table-setting performance for Olson, but fantasy managers will absolutely take it. It’s his first multi-hit game in 10 days.

Olson has now homered in back-to-back games while hitting safely in his last four. The hard-hitting first baseman was one of three Braves hitters to homer in the sixth inning of what ended up being a six-run outburst for the Braves on the way to a blowout win. Olson continues to be one of the more reliable first basemen in the game for both the Braves and his fantasy managers.