The Braves tallied a 7-run first inning and a 3-run fifth Sunday night en route to an 11-4 laugher over the Philadelphia Phillies. The offensive explosion allowed them to salvage a four-game split with the visitors and a 5-5 homestand overall against Seattle, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

Things escalated quickly in the first inning, with Matt Olson launching a 464-foot, 2-run homer about halfway up the seats overlooking the Atlanta bullpen two batters into the game. The Acuna-Olson leadoff combo absolutely killed during this homestand and if it can continue setting the table like that, we’ll be in pretty good shape.

The Braves were not done by a long shot, though, as the resurgent Austin Riley launched a high fly ball just over the center-field wall and out of the reach of Philly center fielder Brandon Marsh. Back-to-back home runs. 3-0 Braves.

Sean Murphy singled and Eddie Rosario doubled in front of Ozzie Albies, who grounded a 2-run single to center to make it 5-0. The Braves then took advantage of a Philly error and had two runners aboard for Ronald Acuna’s second at-bat of the inning, and he drove in two more with a line-drive single.

All-in-all, the Braves chased Philadelphia starter Dylan Covey from the game after he went a full time through the order and only recorded two outs. Six hits, seven runs (five earned runs after the aforementioned error).

That was mostly the ball game. Marsh hit a 2-run homer in the third to make it 7-2, but the Braves completely killed the game off with three more in the fifth. An RBI triple from Acuna and another 2-run bomb from Olson (this one into the upper deck of the fountain in center) served as the big blows and made the score 10-2.

The Braves added one more and Collin McHugh relinquished a 2-run homer to Kyle Schwarber to finish the scoring.

One thing I didn’t mention during all that was the spectacular catch Harris made in the top of the second to rob Schwarber of another homer. I feel like he’s almost made several plays like that in his time, reaching up over the wall but not quite snagging it. He certainly snagged this one, though, going up over the wall with his back to the infield. Fantastic play!

Olson went 3-for-5 with the two homers and four RBIs, while Acuna finished 4-for-5 with the triple, three RBIs and two runs scored. Again, hopefully those two can keep that up!

Given all the offensive (and defensive) fireworks, Spencer Strider had one of the more anonymous starts you’ll ever see from him. He was very good, though, righting the ship after his outing against the Dodgers. He struck out nine and allowed two runs on just two hits and a walk over six innings. I was happy to see him come out for the sixth with 94 pitches already on the ledger. If the bullpen is an issue (and it is at the moment), one thing you can do is to allow starters to stretch an additional inning or two when it makes sense. Strider rewarded his manager for the decision by setting the Phillies down in eight pitches in the sixth and cashing out at 102 pitches for the game.

One more random note: I don’t hate the current format of the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts. Karl Ravech, Eduardo Perez and David Cone don’t match the heyday of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, but they generally do a good job in my opinion, and they’re so much better than when A-Rod was on these that it’s not even funny. They’ve also improved over the last couple years. That having been said, the broadcast always seems to stumble into being way too interested in some weird side thing or technical gadget. Tonight, for instance, they insisted on showing pretty much every pitch for about an inning not from the standard center-field camera, but from the camera that the home-plate umpire was wearing on his head. I think they were trying to highlight how difficult it is to face Strider or something, and showing some full-speed replays of what his stuff looks like coming at you would’ve been fine. But showing every pitch live like that was maddeningly irritating. I look forward to seeing what dumb thing the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast is gonna fixate on the next time I watch.