The Braves and Dodgers have turned this series into a slugfest, and Wednesday night's finale delivered exactly the kind of chaos NL fans wanted. Atlanta and Los Angeles traded punches all night before the Braves finally walked off with a 6-5 win, and the highlight reel started early with Matt Olson.
Matty O off the foul pole!
Olson's shot came off Roki Sasaki and got things moving for the Braves, part of a back-and-forth night that saw the Dodgers claw back in front before Atlanta answered again. By the time the game hit the late innings, it was knotted up and nobody could put it away.
That tension showed up in the field, too. With the score even at 5-5 in the middle innings, the Dodgers turned a double play that had Barstool's baseball account cracking jokes about how only LA could make a routine relay look that unusual.
Dodgers magic
The double play kept the Dodgers alive, but it didn't matter. In the bottom of the ninth, Atlanta got a walk-off single from Ha-Seong Kim, and according to MLB.com's game recap, it was Kim's biggest hit of the season, coming off Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott to cap the comeback. Kim had reportedly been mired in a brutal slump before that at-bat, which only made the moment louder inside Truist Park.
BRAVES WIN
It's the kind of win that matters more than one line in the standings suggests — beating the Dodgers, even in late August, is a measuring-stick moment for a Braves club trying to stay in the thick of the NL race. Olson's early blast and Kim's late heroics bookended a game that had everything, and if this series is any indication, Atlanta and Los Angeles aren't done trading haymakers this season.