Willson Contreras had three hits and stole a base in his first recreation in opposition to youthful brother William, serving to the Chicago Cubs beat the Atlanta Braves 6-3 on Saturday.
The Cubs received a day after ending their 10-game skid and in addition stopping the Braves’ 14-game profitable streak.
The Contreras brothers each began at catcher, marking the primary time they shared a area. They hugged earlier than the 30-year-old Willson, a two-time All-Star, singled within the first inning. Contreras then stole second base in opposition to his brother and scored on Jonathan Villar’s two-run single.
“That’s 1-0,” Willson Contreras stated.
“I didn’t want to get beat by my younger brother. I’m pretty sure he was thinking the same thing. We’re professionals. We love our teams,” he stated.
The brothers have been the primary to start out at catcher in the identical recreation since Yadier Molina for the St. Louis Cardinals and José Molina for the Tampa Bay Rays on June 10, 2014, in keeping with the Elias Sports Bureau.
“From my first at-bat, when I gave him a hug, I was proud,” Willson Contreras stated. “Even before the game I was trying to keep myself together.”
Willson Contreras later doubled and drove in a run. His 24-year-old brother had two hits for the Braves.
“During his last at-bat, he came up and he was looking at me and he said, ‘What are you looking at?’ I looked right back and said, ‘What are you looking at?’ That was probably the only kind of jokey moment of the day,” William Contreras stated.
The Braves’ Contreras singled within the second inning however was compelled out at second on an uncommon double play. Adam Duvall hit a flyball to shallow proper that fell amongst three fielders — Contreras was compelled out at second and Duvall, who had headed again to the dugout earlier than getting pushed towards the bottom by first base coach Eric Young Sr., was known as out.
“I would imagine Adam thought there were three outs,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker stated.
Justin Steele (2-5) acquired his first win since his season debut April 9 in opposition to the Milwaukee Brewers. He allowed two runs and 5 hits in 5 innings.
Kyle Wright (7-4) gave up 5 runs and a career-high 11 hits in six innings.
“I didn’t feel like I gave up that many hits,” Wright stated. “I thought I executed pretty good, got some soft contact but put the ball in play and some things happen sometimes. Give them credit.”
Rafael Ortega homered and Alfonso Rivas and Andrelton Simmons every had two hits for the Cubs.
Duvall, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Michael Harris II had a pair of hits for the Braves, who hadn’t misplaced a season collection in opposition to the Cubs since 2017.
The Cubs prolonged their result in 3-0 on Acuña’s throwing error on Willson Contreras’ single to proper area within the second. They made it 4-0 on Jason Heyward’s double that bounced away from Duvall in left within the third.
Duvall homered within the fifth. The Braves lead the NL in homers however have only one in two video games in opposition to Chicago.
Austin Riley’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly pulled the Braves inside 4-2 within the fifth. Heyward made a sliding catch on Marcell Ozuna’s flyball to proper for the third out.
- Cubs outfielder Clint Frazier accepted an task at Triple-A Iowa after he was designated for task June 10.
- The Cubs positioned infielder Frank Schwindel (low again pressure) on the 10-day injured checklist. He exited within the second inning Friday after working to first on a groundout. Rivas was recalled from Iowa to exchange Schwindel.
- Infielder David Bote (left shoulder surgical procedure) resumed his rehab task with Iowa that was paused due to dizziness.
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