Matt Olson has two of Braves’ four homers in skid-busting win.

DENVER — This year’s Atlanta Braves haven’t been able to match the powerful pace that allowed their 2023 lineup to hit 307 home runs and match the 2019 Minnesota Twins’ single-season MLB record.

Throwing the clock back, at least for one night, helped the Braves break out of a funk.

Matt Olson had two homers and a career-high six RBIs, Marcell Ozuna and Jorge Soler also went deep, and the Braves broke a six-game losing streak with an 11-8 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.

Olson hit a two-run homer off Angel Chivilli (0-1) to break an 8-8 tie in the seventh inning, and Soler added a solo shot in the eighth to help the Braves avoid what would have been their longest losing streak in nearly eight years (they lost seven straight from Aug. 13-20, 2016).

After Sam Hilliard’s three-run home run against starter Max Fried put Atlanta ahead 3-0 early on, the team rallied to win, behind 8-5 in the sixth inning. Brian Snitker, manager of Atlanta, stated, “As hard as it’s been for us to put together a game, it’s huge.” “Those guys have been here long enough to know that these games never end until they do. That could have been a ‘Here we go again’ kind of thing.” Anything is possible.”

“I just wanted to pull the ball,” Olson said of his approach at the plate after Ozuna opened the seventh with a double. “Just had to try to get him to third base. Was able to kind of lift the changeup a little bit. The quality of at-bats have been better than they were earlier in the year, but there is always room to grow.”

Brenton Doyle and Brendan Rodgers had two hits for Colorado, and Ezequiel Tovar had a two-run double in a three-run sixth that tied the back-and-forth game at 8.

Former Colorado right-hander Pierce Johnson (5-4) pitched 1 1/3 innings to pick up the win for Atlanta, striking out Kris Bryant looking with the go-ahead runner on second to end the sixth. Raisel Iglesias pitched the ninth for his 24th save in 26 chances this year.

“Guys kept fighting the fight,” Snitker said. “It was a good ballgame to win.”

Olson and Hilliard were the main sources of the game’s early scoring. Olson hit a grand slam off Colorado starter Dakota Hudson to cap a five-run third for a 5-3 lead, one inning after Hilliard’s homer opened the scoring. Hudson, a former Sequatchie County High School standout from Dunlap, Tennessee, was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque for the start.

Ozuna’s homer and Soler’s two-run single put Atlanta up 8-5 after six innings, but the Rockies tied it on Tovar’s two-run double and Doyle’s single.

Fried gave up seven hits and five runs (four earned) in five innings, with nine strikeouts and three walks in his second appearance after returning from the injured list. The 30-year left-hander, who became a two-time MLB All-Star this season, retired the final seven batters he faced and joined John Smoltz and Julio Teheran as the only Atlanta pitchers with 800 career strikeouts in 160 games or fewer.