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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).

Atlanta overcame an early 3-0 deficit on Sam Hilliard’s three-run homer off starter Max Fried and lost an 8-5 lead in the sixth inning before rallying for the win.

“As hard as it’s been for us to put together a game, it’s huge,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. “That could have been a ‘Here we go again’ type of thing, but these guys have played here long enough to know these games are never over until they are over. Anything can happen.”

Hilliard had a homer, two doubles and a career-high five RBIs for the Rockies, who have lost 10 of their past 11 against the Braves at Coors Field.

Ozuna homered for the third straight game, and Olson had his second two-homer game in 10 contests after hitting two against the Milwaukee Brewers on July 31. Soler, picked up in a swap with the San Francisco Giants at the trade deadline last month, had three hits and three RBIs and has homered in back-to-back games.

“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.

Hilliard drove in two runs with a looping double to right-center that dropped between three fielders to tie the game at 5 in the third.

“Timing was on tonight,” Hilliard said. “The swing feels good. It’s just a matter of putting it all together and being on time.”

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.

“Just out of synch, out of rhythm,” Fried said, adding that the time spent on the IL “is definitely a factor, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter. We’re out here to win games. I take the ball expecting to be myself and give us a chance to win. Fortunate guys really picked me up tonight.”

Atlanta outfielder Ramon Laureano (heel) was removed for a pinch-hitter in the fourth inning. He appeared to suffer the injury when he beat out an infield single in the third.

Meanwhile, outfielder Michael Harris II, on the injured list with a hamstring injury since mid-June, was 3-for-4 with a homer in a rehab game for Triple-A Gwinnett on Saturday. He is expected to rejoin the Braves when eligible on Wednesday.

The three-game series concludes Sunday with Colorado left-hander Kyle Freeland (3-5, 5.65 ERA) set to oppose Atlanta right-hander Spencer Schwellenbach (4-5, 4.04). Freeland, removed from his most recent outing Tuesday because of a blister on his left index finger, has made quality starts in six of eight starts since returning from the IL.

Atlanta (61-55) is second in the National League East Division standings, 7 1/2 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies, after nudging a half-game ahead of the New York Mets. The Braves also moved ahead of the Mets for the third and final wild-card spot in the NL playoff race.