Tyler Soderstrom opened Thursday night's game with a long home run and closed it with a one-out RBI single to give the Athletics a 5-4 11-inning victory over the Atlanta Braves. Soderstrom went 3 for 5 with four RBIs,

Tyler Soderstrom's 11th-inning RBI single lifts the Athletics to a 5-4 win over the Braves.

Almost three innings after a two-out Tyler Soderstrom home run put the A's up 3-0 in the first inning Thursday against the Atlanta Braves at Sutter Health Park, a trend looked like it was emerging. On Tuesday,

Acuña helped lead the Braves to a 9-2 win against the Athletics — just their third victory in 13 games — a day after an embarrassing 10-1 series-opening loss. The Braves hit a season-high five homers, with others from Drake Baldwin, Austin Riley and Marcell Ozuna, who hit his first in 22 games, since June 13.

Remember when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in 2021? Remember when they won 100-plus games in each of the next two seasons? Oh, and remember how these were merely three parts of a seven-year run as a playoff team?