Matt Olson hit a two-run home run, Bryce Elder pitched into the seventh inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the host Washington Nationals 9-4 Monday night for their sixth straight win.

Drake Baldwin had two hits, drove in two runs and scored twice for Atlanta.

Elder (3-1) pitched 6 2/3 innings, giving up four runs (three earned) on three hits. He struck out six.

Daylen Lile homered for the Nationals, who were held to three hits and fell to 2-8 at home.

Jake Irvin (1-3) allowed four runs (three earned) in five-plus innings.

Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. left the game in the sixth inning after being hit by an Irvin pitch for the second time. X-rays on Acuna’s left hand came back negative and the Braves said he is day-to-day.

The Nationals took a 2-0 lead in the first thanks to some patient at-bats. With two outs, Brady House singled and CJ Abrams and Lile worked walks to load the bases. Jacob Young lined a single to right, driving in House and Abrams.

Atlanta tied it in the fourth. Acuna was hit by a pitch leading off but was picked off first base. Baldwin singled and Olson homered to center to tie it.

Lile homered leading off the bottom half to make it 3-2.

The Braves took control with a five-run sixth. Mike Yastrzemski reached on a throwing error by Nasim Nunez. Acuna took his second HBP, and Irvin was lifted in favor of PJ Poulin. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch and scored when Baldwin doubled to left.

Austin Riley walked with one out and Brad Lord replaced Poulin. Ozzie Albies singled home Baldwin to make it 5-3, and Michael Harris II singled home Riley. Dominic Smith grounded back to the mound, but the Nationals could not turn two and another run scored to make it 7-3.

The Nationals got one back in their half when Abrams was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored when Young reached on third baseman Riley’s throwing error.

The Braves added two in the ninth on an RBI bunt single by Eli White and a sacrifice fly by Olson.

–Field Level Media

Otto Lopez stroked a go-ahead, RBI double in the sixth inning as the host Miami Marlins ended St. Louis’ five-game win streak by defeating the Cardinals 5-3 on Monday night.

Pete Fairbanks pitched a one-run ninth to earn his fourth save. He was part of a Marlins bullpen that combined to pitch 3 2/3 innings, allowing just that one run.

Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker extended his hitting streak to 15 games. That’s two games short of the career-best streak he had as a rookie in 2023.

Marlins starter Max Meyer got a no-decision, allowing three hits, two walks and two runs in 5 1/3 innings.

Michael McGreevy (1-2) retired the first 10 Marlins batters but took the loss. He lasted 5 2/3 innings, allowing five hits, two walks and four runs.

St. Louis opened the scoring in the fourth. Walker singled on a 112-mph grounder to center. He stole second, advanced on a bounced wild pitch and scored on Masyn Winn’s sacrifice fly.

Miami tied the score 1-1 in the bottom of the fourth as Kyle Stowers walked on four pitches, advanced on a groundout and scored on Xavier Edwards’ ground-rule double.

The Marlins took a 2-1 lead in the fifth on Agustin Ramirez’s 411-foot homer to left-center.

St. Louis made it 2-2 in the sixth as Walker walked, went to third on a Winn single and scored on reliever Calvin Faucher’s wild pitch.

Miami grabbed a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the sixth as Stowers singled and scored from first on Lopez’s double down the third-base line. Edwards then walked, and Liam Hicks followed with an RBI single.

The Marlins nearly got more on that play, but Cardinals rocket-armed shortstop Winn’s relay throw to the plate got the speedy Edwards, who was trying to score from first on Hicks’ single.

St. Louis pulled McGreevy at that point, and reliever Matt Svanson got Ramirez on a groundout to end the threat.

The Marlins added an insurance run in the eighth. Lopez and Edwards walked, and Hicks delivered an RBI single.

Winn led off the ninth with a triple and scored on Ramon Urias’ sacrifice fly, but that was all for the Cardinals.

–Field Level Media