Braves’ Austin Riley gets All-Star nod after initially being snubbed

Austin Riley is an All-Star.

The Braves third baseman, a snub on the preliminary poll, was added to the NL All-Star workforce on Saturday morning following one other dwelling run on Friday night time towards the Nationals, bringing his season whole to 26. Riley has extra dwelling runs than any participant aside from Aaron Decide since final 12 months’s All-Star break.

Austin Riley rounds the bases after his two-run dwelling run towards the Nationals on Friday.

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Manny Machado and Nolan Arenado led the best way on the place within the NL, with Machado being voted the starter. However together with his dwelling run whole, together with a .282/.345/.568 slash line, Riley has greater than earned his spot.

He’ll change into the sixth Braves participant on the workforce, becoming a member of William Contreras, Dansby Swanson, Travis d’Arnaud, Max Fried and Ronald Acuna, who will begin within the outfield.

“I prefer to see him get rewarded and acknowledged for what he can do,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker advised reporters final week. “He form of will get overshadowed with the 2 actually good All-Star-caliber third basemen, and this man is one, too. Austin Riley is an All-Star-caliber third baseman.”

With Riley’s assist, the Braves have been on a tear of late, with an 11-4 report within the month of July to assist minimize their deficit to the Mets to simply two video games within the NL East.

They’ll end out the primary half in Washington with afternoon video games on Saturday and Sunday.