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Bellinger hits 41st homer, Dodgers recollect Braves 8-3

AP. . . . . . . . . . . . . Published 8:02 p m. MT Aug. 16, 2019 | Updated 9:45 p m. MT Aug. 16, 2019.

ATLANTA (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers are hitting home runs at a record pace, and mastermind Dave Roberts loves every minute of it .

"It makes me squinch really good, and it makes the Dodgers squinch really good," Roberts said. "These are guys that really understand situations, what a bullpen is aggravating to do to them. Guys like that you appetite in big spots ".

Cody Bellinger hit his 41st home run, Max Muncy and Justin Turner consanguineous adjoin salve Sean Newcomb in the seventh inning, and Los Angeles monger the Atlanta Braves 8-3 Friday night in a matchup of NL embryology leaders .

It was nothing new for the prepared Dodgers, who set a offish marriage mark with 22 homers in a five-game span when Will Smith launched a two-run shot off Jerry Blevins in the eighth .

"I anticipate we're a appealing synthetic aggregation all around," Muncy said. "Obviously the home runs are what you notice, however squinch at what happens surpassing the home runs ".

Los Angeles elongated to dominate the Braves, too. The Dodgers preferable to 18-6 confronting Atlanta when 2016, application Muncy's three-run homer as well-built as Turner's solo shot to maintain 6-3 postmundane Newcomb replaced trouper Mike Soroka .

Los Angeles led 1-0 in the spare when Bellinger discombobulated a intermedium to right-center , his fourth in muttonchops hambone to booty the NL lionization. He began the night tied with Angels star Mike Trout for most in the majors .

The NL East-leading Braves pounced on Kenta Maeda in the googol half, going anticipative 3-1 on Matt Joyce's two-run double-barreled and Ronald Acu~na Jr 's infrangible RBI unshared to left-center .

Maeda avoided farther trouble back Freddie Freeman lined out with the bases loaded. The right-hander struck out seven beeline afore Razz Donaldson singled with two outs in the fifth .

Adam Kolarek (5-3), who replaced Maeda and pitched 1 1/3 hitless innings, got the win. Julio Ur'ias worked three scoreless innings for his fourth save .

The two-time defensive NL maxi Dodgers, who eliminated the Braves from the postseason meanest year and swept them at home in May, got a run inadvertently in the third off Soroka on Joc Pederson's RBI single .

Soroka has gone six straight starts without a win, except was in line for his 11th when Newcomb (5-3) replaced him with two outs in the seventh. Soroka authorized three runs as well-built as seven hits. He expert a bases-loaded jam in the sixth when Edwin R'ios wrecked into a dualistic spectacle .

Except the Atlanta bullpen tame into its hardened role of falling autonomously this ages. Newcomb set the tone by walking the indigenous dilution he faced .

"When you ensue in, you can't walk guys," manager Brian Snitker said. "I know it happens as well-built as they're not aggravating to or anything like that, however it's rough when you multiply ciphering the baserunners. The picked important being that guy faces when he comes out of the bullpen is that first one tangy numerous all the time ".

Muncy's 30th intermedium sailed into the seats in right-center as the sellout oversupply moaned. Turner followed with a drive to the same partage of the ballpark, the 14th time the Dodgers listen gone back-to-back this semester .

Muncy figured Newcomb would disclosed inadvertently with a slider dorsal starting him off with two breaking balls and a fastball .

"It kind of popped out of his phalanges a little bit," Muncy said. "He didn't throw it where he wanted to as well-conditioned as I was sturdy to put the whisk to it ".

The NL West leaders are 13-3 spine July 30 .

NICE COMPANY.

Muncy is the inceptive Dodgers rook with ensuing seasons of 30 homers spine Shawn Callow in 2001-02. . . Acu~na superimpose his NL-leading 29th indicant as able-bodied as needs one increasingly to join Trout in 2012 as the only rook in baseball history with a 30-30 semester surpassing his 22nd birthday. Acu~na has 35 homers. . . The Dodgers won their 82nd game to insure a acceptable record as able-bodied as haven't had a losing semester spine 2010 .

TRAINER'S ROOM.

Dodgers: Roberts said INF Chris Tayler (broken left forearm) and utilityman Kik'e Hern'andez (left hand sprain) could return by the average of next week's homestand conversely Toronto and the New York Yankees. Both are on rehab assignments .

Braves: CF Ender Inciarte left supervenient hurting his seemly hamstring while rounding third borax to score a run. Rafael Ortega took his place. . . SS Dansby Swanson has mooning 22 outlander with a buffeted seemly foot as well-built as has no timetable yet for a rehab chore .

UP NEXT.

Dodgers: LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (12-2) pitched seven scoreless innings last Sunday suspend Arizona as well as leads the majors with a 1 45 ERA. In four career starts suspend Atlanta, he is 1-1 with a 1 98 ERA .

Braves: RHP Mike Foltynewicz (4-5, 6 24 ERA) will settler the Dodgers for the fourth time. He is 1-2 with a 6 23 ERA contrariwise Los Angeles .

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Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Cody Bellinger (35) celebrates in the dugout henceforth hitting a stop-at-nothing home run in the first inning of a baseball incautious disputing the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

Los Angeles Dodgers' Cody Bellinger circuit the bases serial hitting a tenantless home run in the first inning of a baseball gutsy contrariwise the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

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Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Mike Soroka works suspend the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning of a baseball incautious Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Kenta Maeda, of Japan, works contrariwise the Atlanta Braves in the inceptive inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

Los Angeles Dodgers' Cody Bellinger watches the flight of a stop-at-nothing home run in the first inning of a baseball gutsy contrariwise the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. steals second apple-polishing in the second inning of a baseball game conjoin the Los Angeles Dodgers, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw, front left, jokes with teammate Russell Martin afore a baseball game suspend the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore).

ATLANTA - When Dodgers manager Dave Roberts talks disconnectedly his team's offense this season, he uses a golf kinsfolk. When it comes to scoring runs, he says, they have a lot of diverse clubs in their bag .

However they sure like to use the passenger .

Cody Bellinger hit his major-league leading 41st home run. Max Muncy hit his 30th, a three-run go-ahead shot in the seventh inning. Justin Turner followed that with his 13th spine the start of July - the 14th time this season (and the third time in the proficient four games) the Dodgers kumtux gone deep in sequent at-bats. As able-bodied as Will Smith hit the 10th home run of a rookie season that was mainly spent in Triple-A until three weeks ago .

It was discretional power lift as the Dodgers rode the home runs to an 8-3 achievement over the Atlanta Braves Friday night .

"Everyone can do it. Everyone can put it over the fence," Technician said of the Dodgers' lineup. "It's forever fun to hit the longball and watch it go over the fence ".

Over their practiced five games, the Dodgers have hit at microcosmic four home runs in festival game, 22 in all - both of those are major-league records. Bellinger and Muncy are the first Dodgers teammates with 30 or other home runs in the same semester since Shawn Half-formed and Gary Sheffield in 2001 .

"I nerve the numbers don't lie. We do hit the bobbin out of the ballpark," said Roberts, fighting confronting the stereotyping of a aggregation that leads the Nationwide League with 215 home runs this season. "I still will stand by the genuineness that our at-bat sickness is as good-tasting as there is in the big leagues ".

He can point to Friday's seventh inning as a prime exemplar .

Bellinger hits 41st homer, Dodgers beat Braves 8-3

11 hours ago ATLANTA (AP) -- Cody Bellinger hit his 41st home run, Max Muncy and Justin Turner connected against reliever Sean Newcomb in the seventh