Any questions about how the Atlanta Braves would fare against the American League’s elite were answered Monday night when they routed the Texas Rangers 12-0.

Monday’s game was a matchup of division leaders as the Braves lead the NL East and the Rangers currently sit at the top of the AL West.

"It was a big win. We let one get away (Sunday)," Braves manager Brian Snitker said after the game. "It was great to come out and swing the bats. And Charlie was awesome."

With the win, the Braves averted their first five-game losing streak since September 2017.

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Atlanta started the game red-hot and they never looked back.

Kevin Pillar and Ronald Acuña Jr. each hit a two-run homer in the second inning then Marcell Ozuna, Orlando Arcia, and Austin Riley pushed the Braves’ lead further with two-run home runs in 6th, 7th and 9th innings.

Pillar’s homer was his second in two days and third in four games. The scores continue a good showing in the month of May, as he notched a fourth home run earlier in the month.

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Arcia homered in the sixth and Riley in the seventh, both off reliever Cole Ragans.

Ozuna’s drive came in the ninth off Rangers reserve catcher Sandy Leon, who was making his eighth career pitching appearance.

Matt Olson and Ozzie Albies hit back-to-back RBI doubles in the fifth.

The Braves also looked impressive on the mound, with Charlie Morton striking out a season-high 10 batters.

He limited the Rangers to just seven singles and a walk through 6 2/3 innings to win consecutive starts for the first time this season.

The double-digit shutout spoiled the big league debut for Rangers pitcher Cody Bradford, a 2019 draftee out of Baylor University.

Bradford was called up from Triple-A Round Rock for his major league debut. The 25-year-old lefty from Aledo, Texas, gave up six runs on seven hits. He also gave up two walks in five innings.

"Obviously, not how anybody draws up their debut, but I got blessed with an amazing opportunity to pitch at home in front of a lot of friends and family," Bradford said. "The Braves did a good job of hitting pitches over the middle of the plate."

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"It’s fair to say he made some mistakes, especially with his off-speed pitches," Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. "We had trouble keeping the ball in the ballpark tonight. It’s tough to debut against this club."

The Braves’ win comes after they got swept by Toronto over the weekend, 0-3 on Friday, 2-5 on Saturday, and 5-6 on Sunday.

The Braves, who won the World Series in 2021, and the Rangers, who were World Series finalists in 2010 and 2011, will play their second game Tuesday at 8:05 p.m.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Happy Monday, everyone! So far, over 2 million bucks has been raised for Daniel Penny's defense. Millions to save a penny. Sounds like a typical Democrat social program. But it is good news. Still, is it a match for the mob, the mob that disrupted subway service and started brawls over the death of a violent, mentally ill homeless man? See, they thrive off violent extortion, lurking and waiting to pounce like a lunatic on the F train and always adored by the media. And even though this dead guy was a menace, better at impersonating Michael Myers than Michael Jackson, they're going to reshape that narrative. 

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So he's a martyr and the Marine a bad guy. And race will play the starring role, even though it was a bona fide rainbow coalition teaming up to protect innocent passengers from a raging lunatic. But to morons and race baiters, that could only mean one thing: White supremacy. Which means if the case doesn't go their way, prepare for the apocalypse on your streets. That's the extortion. Neely was a violent mess with serious mental issues. I see him every day, usually outside CNN headquarters. But if you ask the media, he was a talented entertainer, which is like saying John Wayne Gacy was a clown. He was. 

Now, mental illness can make you a victim, but also a victimizer. And in Neely's case, there is a good chance when he punched a few senior citizens, he did it because he felt like it. Oh, there was help out there for him for sure. Billions in social programs. But what happened there? It's a scam called rent seeking. The practice of manipulating public policy to increase profits. If homelessness actually gets better, the profits shrink. So you got to keep that problem alive. It's really how the Democratic Party exists. Keep people living at subsistence level and they will have to rely on us forever. 

After 42 priors, Neely should have been locked up but New York has a '180 strikes and you're still not out' law. So he roamed loose. And because the left sees dollar signs and sorrow, they preferred to unload these maniacs on the rolling asylum called the subway, a mode of transport these ----s would never be caught dead on. Pun intended. Neely was on NYC's list of the top 50 people in dire need of help. Yeah, the government makes lists of people they aren't helping. Isn't that the phone book? But the homeless service industry is indeed an industry. 

De Blasio threw a billion to ThriveNYC with his wife as the boss. Yep, he hired the most qualified person he was married to. And surprise, it got worse. And why? Because the money flows up and not down. Nothing was thriving but salaries. They threw another $240 million next fiscal year to the Department of Homeless Services. And of course, things got worse. So you had more homeless criminals roaming transit. No one wants to mess with them, but they will mess with you, surely. That's where Penny and others step in. New Yorkers are supposed to look out for each other, not look away. But do that and you'll be looking for a lawyer. 

Bragg charged him and City Hall must have known. So Bragg and the mayor bent over for a few performance protesters. And they were indeed performers. The subway event had to be staged because there's no way those kids jump onto a live subway track and stay there without knowing the train wouldn't turn them into ground chuck. I mean, they're zombies, but they're not literal zombies. Maybe I'm wrong. 

The protesters also needed police to be involved because no cops were present when Neely died. So they needed conflict on the streets between protesters and cops, a narrative the media always embraces. And so the jury will hear that story. AOC and others will push the lynching narrative as received wisdom. She wants to pull the lever for the electric chair like it's a beer tap. 

But they run into a problem. Real people who take the subway and anybody else who just wants to get through their day with a minimum of hassle. We have to fight this. We have to support Daniel Penny, not against Jordan Neely, but against the Alvin Braggs and the AOCs of the world and also the old wretched dividers who tear apart by telling us that, after all, racism has long torn us apart. 

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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Racism has long torn us apart. The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is White supremacy. I'm not saying this because I'm at a Black HBCU, I say it wherever I go. 

No, you said it because you were there, ya Bozo. So how does that help Blacks or Whites? It's not meant to. See, dividing people just makes them easier to conquer, which helps the rent-seeking crooks who make money off maintaining racial strife. Joe's telling Black grads they're entering a world faced with invisible White devils. And that's a lie. You call White people the devil, and you're half right. But it's the half Blacks keep voting for. Even when Lucifer himself comes to your graduation and lies to your face.