Atlanta Braves at Colorado Rockies: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 0 |
| COL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
The Story
The Atlanta Braves routed the Colorado Rockies 14-4 at Coors Field on August 28, 2023, collecting 18 hits and committing no errors while Colorado managed just 9 hits and was charged with one error. The DiamondIQ model had entered the game giving Colorado only a 27% chance of winning at home, and by the final out that figure had fallen to 0%, reflecting the thoroughness of Atlanta's dominance across nine innings.
The decisive moments came in waves, beginning in the third inning when Austin Riley launched a home run off Austin Gomber that shifted win probability by 20.1 percentage points in Atlanta's favor. Ronald Acuña Jr. added a home run of his own off Karl Kauffmann in the fifth, a swing worth 19.0 percentage points, effectively closing the door on any realistic Colorado comeback. Colorado's most meaningful responses came from Ezequiel Tovar, whose fifth-inning single off Bryce Elder generated a 16.4-point swing for the home side, and Hunter Goodman, whose fourth-inning double contributed 13.3 points. Atlanta's seven-run combined output in the seventh and ninth innings buried any remaining uncertainty.
Acuña finished as the game's most impactful offensive player by the DiamondIQ model's estimate, posting a cumulative WPA of plus-28.9% and a RE24 of plus-4.3, while Riley contributed plus-18.2% WPA and plus-3.4 RE24 to anchor Atlanta's middle-of-the-order production. Tovar led Colorado's individual contributors at plus-13.2% WPA, though his RE24 of plus-0.3 illustrated how little those chances translated into actual run-scoring impact. On the mound, A.J. Minter led Atlanta's relievers with a WPA of plus-1.7%, a quiet but clean contribution to a game that Atlanta had well in hand by the late innings.