For the second straight day, the Braves prospects were the ones who were showing flashes of their potential. Ozzie Albies, Dansby Swanson and Ronald Acuna led off the order against the Tigers in Lakeland and they all had a good day at the plate. However, Austin Riley stole the show with a towering home run that put Atlanta in front for good.
As Gabriel Burns of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted in this report, Dustin Peterson is looking for a bit of redemption after he suffered an injury during last year’s spring training that basically cost him a spot on the big league roster.