Matt Olson

It's been a rough month of July for Olson, who came into today hitting 7-for-62 (.113) in 17 games coming into today. His pull rates have been down from what we're used to seeing and his 50 percent groundball rate is almost 13 percent above his career average. That may have a lot to do with why we're not seeing the power output from Olson, but with Ronald Acuna Jr., Ozzie Albies, and Michael Harris II not in the lineup, pitchers can afford to pitch around Olson more.

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The right-hander piled up five strikeouts on the afternoon while issuing one base on balls. He kept the Braves off the scoreboard completely through his first three innings of work before allowing RBI singles to Matt Olson and Adam Duvall in the fourth and fifth innings respectively. Vasquez generated six whiffs on 73 pitches in the ballgame, posting a CSW of 26 percent. He concludes his first half with a 2-5 record, 4.57 ERA, 1.56 WHIP and a 43/15 K/BB ratio over 63 innings through his first 13 starts.

Albies smacked a one-out double off of Randy Vasquez in the opening inning but wound up getting stranded at third base. He then led off the fourth inning with a single, swiped second base and raced around to score the Braves' first run on an RBI single off the bat of Matt Olson. The 27-year-old second baseman finishes the first half hitting .258/.312/.410 with eight homers, 44 RBI and eight stolen bases (in nine attempts).