The Atlanta Braves held off the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 at Truist Park, surviving a game that changed hands twice before Atlanta delivered the final run in the ninth inning. Drake Baldwin drove in two runs and collected three hits, while Sean Murphy added three hits, a home run and two runs scored to keep Atlanta’s lineup moving. Tommy Edman supplied most of Los Angeles’ damage with a home run, three RBIs and two runs, but the Dodgers could not produce a final answer after tying the game with two runs in the seventh.

Atlanta’s offense built its winning shape through sustained production rather than one dominant stretch. The Braves scored once in the first, three times in the fourth, once in the sixth and once in the ninth, with Baldwin and Murphy leading the contact quality at the plate. Baldwin went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, and Murphy went 3-for-4 with a solo homer and two runs, giving Atlanta two reliable sources of traffic throughout the game. Ha-Seong Kim also delivered an RBI in his lone at-bat, adding to a lineup that kept pressure on a Dodgers pitching staff that used Roki Sasaki for 3.1 innings and Eric Lauer for two.

The result moves Atlanta to 78-55 and keeps the Braves within striking distance of Los Angeles, which falls to 80-53. Atlanta’s ability to answer the Dodgers’ seventh-inning rally and score again in the ninth is the clearest takeaway: the Braves won the late-inning exchange without needing a runaway offensive performance. Los Angeles had enough production to win, but its pitching margin was too thin, and Atlanta’s balanced catching tandem of Baldwin and Murphy proved decisive.