There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from the weekend in Major League Baseball:Braves first to 20 winsThe NL East might be a mess in plenty of ways, but not for the Braves. Atlanta, which struggled with injuries and effectiveness from the start last summer, won the weekend series against the Phillies, with the last of those victories making the Braves the first team in MLB this season to reach 20 wins. Philadelphia, meanwhile, moved up into a tie for last place in the NL East despite dropping two of three to Atlanta, because the Mets were even worse this weekend. More on that in a bit, though.Atlanta came out swinging on Sunday, with right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. leading off the bottom of the first with a single, followed by catcher Drake Baldwin getting his own on a liner to right. That brought up first baseman Matt Olson, who made it clear with one swing that the Braves were aiming to make up for their extra-inning collapse the day before.That was Olson’s eighth long ball of the season, and you’ll note that it wasn’t like it was on a mistake pitch or anything of the sort: he hit a 93.5 mph four-seam fastball that was located well inside the zone 399 feet to right field to put the Braves up 3-0. Atlanta would score another three runs in the second inning to go up 6-0 — left fielder Mauricio Dubon opened that frame with a triple and the Braves were off from there — and Philadelphia could only scrape together a pair of runs against Atlanta’s bullpen, both in the eighth. Before then, Chris Sale dominated.Sale picked up career win 150 by allowing just one hit and no runs over six innings, while striking out nine and walking a pair. The lefty also had this look-what-I-found falling grab on the mound to help his own cause.Sale now has a 2.45 ERA across two-plus seasons and 56 games with the Braves. Pretty good for a guy who started that stretch when he was already 35.Torkelson homers in fifth-straight gameSpencer Torkelson has hit 31 homers two of the last three seasons, so his starting 2026 out by just not going yard for the first 23 games was a bit concerning. Well, as concerning as anything can be over the first 23 games, anyway. It’s a long season, and the Tigers’ first baseman is doing his best to make up for lost time and get everything looking all normal…
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