Ronald Acuña Jr. leads Braves home run barrage to torture Joe Ryan

Joe Ryan was lights-out in his last start for the Twins, but Ronald Acuña Jr. and the Braves unleashed hell on the starter with a home run barrage.

Coming into his start at Truist Park on Tuesday night, Joe Ryan had been a force. Boasting a 2.98 ERA on the year while allowing just eight home runs over 15 starts and coming off of a complete game shutout against the Red Sox.

Ronald Acuña Jr. and the Atlanta Braves had a different idea of how the Billy Hargrove doppelgänger‘s night would go.

Acuña got the night started by taking Ryan’s first pitch of the night 406 feet over the right-center fence, tying the game at 1-1 with his 18th dinger of the year.

That, however, was just the start.

Braves: Ronald Acuña Jr. leads HR barrage against Joe Ryan

Ozzie Albies followed up his BFF with a triple to his own credit before Austin Riley drove him home with his 14th homer of the season.

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Matt Olson broke up the party briefly by striking out, but Sean Murphy picked the vibes right back up with his 13th home run of the year, a no-doubter to left-center.

Marcell Ozuna and Eddie Rosario struck out to end the first inning with a 4-1 advantage for the Braves. Ryan’s time in the dugout, however, did not help matters. Orlando Arcia grounded out, but then Michael Harris II continued his lethal streak of hitting with a mammoth 438-foot blast to right field.

Not wanting the fun he started to end, Acuña’s second trip to the dish ended the same way as the first, with the ball going over the fence, this time to left field to give the Braves the 6-1 advantage.

When the Braves are firing on all cylinders, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more dangerous lineup in baseball.

And if there is an ounce of Billy Hargrove in Joe Ryan, he might prefer the Mind Flayer to what the Braves did to him on Tuesday night.