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The superstar of the Atlanta Braves, Ronald Acuna Jr., led to the potential launch of the year in the 7-3 victory of the team on New York Yankees on Friday evening at the Truist Park.
The Braves were up 3-0 at the top of the third round with runners the first and the second with a withdrawal. Cody Bellinger of the Yankees was up to the race for tie.
Bellinger hung the cursor of the launcher from Braves, Spencer Strider, on the straight field line with a fly ball. Acuna caught the fly ball one step from the warning track.
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Atlanta Braves Voltueur Ronald Acuña Jr. reacts after launching a runner in the third goal during the third round of a baseball match against New York Yankees on Friday July 18, 2025 in Atlanta. (AP photo / Colin Hubbard)
The runner of the second base, Jorbit Vivas, tagged and went to the third base. While Abuna grabbed the ball, he turned and pulled a rocket at the third base on his rear foot.
The Acuna laser beam of a throw has never touched the ground, and it caught a vivas without distrust for the final of the Channel to the third goal.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said that Vivas was “deceased” by the third basic player in the Braves, Nacho Alvarez Jr., who gave the impression that no launch arrived until he caught the ball and marked Vivas in a rapid movement.
Vivas never slipped and looked completely confused after being labeled.
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Ronald Acuña Jr. in Atlanta Braves in High-Fives teammates in the canoe after marking a race in the first round of a baseball match against New York Yankees on Friday July 18, 2025 in Atlanta. (AP photo / Colin Hubbard)
“It just can’t happen. I did this all my career on the third basis. Just in a way stupid, plays dead. And that is what (vivas) has read. The body language of Alvarez there, just déskée. He knew it was a deep fly ball, so that caught up,” said Boone.
The game was particularly expensive for the Yankees, because the Aaron judge is looming on the bridge and with a bating of the bat, it could have equaled the 3-3 match.
“His clarification is stupid,” said Braves manager Brian Snitker, about the Acuna throw.
“It is a weapon in the right field. His arm is so strong and precise, and the ball carries, the liberation is good. It is special there.”
New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone reacts in the third round of a baseball match against the Braves in Atlanta, Friday July 18, 2025 in Atlanta. (AP photo / Colin Hubbard)
Acuna said her throw came from anticipation.
“I always try to anticipate these documents,” said Acuna through an interpreter. This is really what I always try to concentrate, anticipating the room before it happens. I was really not trying to do anything other than that. Fortunately, I have a good arm. “”
The Braves (43-53) will seek to build the victory on Friday when they face the Yankees (53-44) in the second match in their three game series on Saturday at 7.15 p.m..
