Ian Anderson allowed one hit in seven innings, Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a long home run and the Atlanta Braves beat the skidding Chicago Cubs 5-0 on Tuesday night.
Anderson (2-0) won his second consecutive start, after throwing 6 2/3 shutout innings in a 4-1 win at Yankee Stadium last Wednesday. He walked only one Cubs batter and struck out eight.
Chicago held out Javier Baez and Kris Bryant with injuries in its fourth consecutive loss.
A rookie making his 11th career start and fifth this season, Anderson lowered his ERA to 2.48. Cubs manager David Ross was impressed by the right-hander in his first game against Chicago.
A.J. Minter pitched a perfect eighth. Nico Hoerner's one-out single off Jacob Webb in the ninth was Chicago's second hit, but Webb struck out Willson Contreras and David Bote to end the game.
With one out in the fifth, Acuna pulled a belt-high fastball from Trevor Williams (2-2) for the longest of his eight homers this season. The drive traveled 481 feet and landed near the top of the seats in left-center field.
Williams then walked Freddie Freeman, who scored on Ozzie Albies' double off the right-field wall for a 2-0 lead.
Albies added another double off Brandon Workman leading off the eighth and scored on Dansby Swanson's single. Hoerner's error at shortstop on Austin Riley's grounder set up pinch-hitter Pablo Sandoval's run-scoring single up the middle.
Workman walked Acuna to load the bases and also walked Freeman, forcing in the third run of the inning.
Jake Marisnick led off the third with a single for Chicago's only hit off Anderson, but Marisnick was stranded at second base. The only other baserunner against Anderson came on Jason Heyward's walk with one out in the fifth.
Williams allowed two runs and six hits in five innings. He had two walks and eight strikeouts, matching his career high.
Braves rookie RHP Huascar Ynoa (1-1, 3.68 ERA) looks for his second consecutive win when he faces Cubs RHP Kyle Hendricks (1-2, 5.68) on Wednesday night. Ynoa gave up six runs in four innings of a 13-4 loss at Chicago on April 17 before earning his first win against Arizona last Friday.
