Ronald

Acuña Jr.

The 28-year-old superstar beat out an infield single to lead off the third inning off of Chad Dallas. He then swiped second base, advanced to third on a single and scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Matt Olson. That would be his only hit in four at-bats on the night. With his recent tear at the plate, Acuña is now slashing .249/.373/.431 to go with seven homers, 21 RBI and 14 stolen bases on the season.

Acuña has homered in four straight games, amassing five homers, nine RBI, seven walks and four steals during the span. It’s raised his OPS from .695 to .821.

The two-homer, two-steal game is a first for Acuña and just the 23rd time it’s happened in major league history. Juan Soto on Aug. 30 and Mickey Moniak on Sept. 7 both did it last year, and Shohei Ohtani accomplished it in his absurd 6-for-6, three-homer, 10-RBI game on Sept. 19, 2024. Chipper Jones in 1999, Rafael Furcal in 2005 and Ender Inciarte in 2017 were the previous Braves to pull off the feat. Acuña has homered in three straight games and is up to .246/.369/.419 on the season.

Acuña hit a no-doubt, 429-foot moonshot off Chris Paddack that landed about 10 rows deep in left-center. He didn’t come around to score on either of his walks despite the Braves scoring eight runs, but that’s about all fantasy managers can be mad about here. Acuña has homered in each of his last two games while walking four times, and he’s slowly picking up the power pace as he’s slugged .426 in his last 15 games.

The 28-year-old superstar worked a two-out walk in the third inning and swiped second base, but the Braves were unable to cash him in. He also started the fifth inning with a walk, advanced to second on a single and stole third base before being left stranded there. Acuña then changed the entire complexion of the game as he turned a 3-2 ballgame into a 7-2 rout with a 417-foot (107.9 mph EV) grand slam off of Greg Weissert in the sixth inning. On the season, he’s now hitting .238/.358/.363 with just three home runs, 16 RBI and 10 stolen bases.

Acuňa drew a leadoff walk to start the game and swiped second base shortly after, but the veteran right fielder was again held without a hit for the fourth time in his last five games. Acuňa has struggled all season and is slashing a pedestrian .222/.349/.250 in May with four games left to go this month.

Acuña reached base just once in five plate appearances out of the leadoff spot during the 11-inning marathon that ended with Chadwick Tromp’s walk-off single. The 28-year-old fantasy superstar made it back into Atlanta’s lineup after suffering a bone bruise in his left thumb during Thursday’s contest against the Marlins. It doesn’t appear that Acuña will require any additional time off, but it wouldn’t come as a surprise to see the Braves carefully manage his workload this weekend.

The 28-year-old outfielder was pulled from Thursday’s contest with a bone bruise in his left thumb, but X-rays came back negative for any fractures. He’s right back in there in his customary leadoff spot on Friday night against Richard Lovelady and the Nationals.

Acuña suffered the injury at some point during Thursday’s contest. He did undergo precautionary X-rays, which came back negative for any fractures. Weiss also noted that the superstar outfielder was already lobbying to be included in Friday’s lineup. He’s considered day-to-day. It sounds like fantasy managers dodged a bullet here.

The superstar outfielder was removed when the Braves took the field for the sixth inning. Fortunately, the team is calling his exit a precautionary measure, and his injury isn’t believed to be serious. Fantasy managers should be sure to check back on Friday to ensure that he’s in the lineup when setting lineups for the weekend.