Margot homered off Lance McCullers Jr with two outs in the very first inning. An inning later on, he tracked George Springers long foul ball to right field while shielding his face from the sun and caught it as he tumbled over a cushioned railing atop a wall and landed on a walkway near the seats down the line at Petco Park.
The Braves werent done after Rileys homer made it 2-1. Ronald Acuna Jr followed with a double and scored on a single by Marcell Ozuna that went after Treinen before Ozzie Albies two-run homer off Jake McGee.
Will Smith, the third Braves pitcher, worked a perfect eighth before Mark Melancon closed it out. Atlanta has allowed an overall of six runs while winning all 6 of its championship game.
Riley, the No9 batter in the Braves lineup, struck a 448-drive to left-center off Blake Treinen, who had just entered the video game, drawing a loud response and some tomahawk-chop chants from the very first fans enabled to go to a big league video game this season.
In the AL Championship Series, Manuel Margot struck a three-run home run one batter after an important Houston error and made an incredible catch in ideal field in his former home ballpark, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Astros 4-2.
Before the ninth, the only runs had been a pair of solo homers. Freddie Freeman went deep for Atlanta in the first and Kike Hernandez led off the Dodgers 5th with a homer.
In a matchup of teams that ranked 1-2 in the majors throughout the regular season for both homers and runs, and in the first NLCS opener since 2007 with both teams unbeaten in the postseason, the Braves had another excellent pitching efficiency even without a shutout.
All 10,700 tickets available to the basic public were offered, in addition to another 800 or two made use of by the league and teams. That was about 28% of the 40,518 capability at the brand-new Texas Rangers ballpark where the retractable roofing system was open for the first NLCS video game played at a neutral website.
Margot appeared and held up his glove with the ball in it after a 102-foot sprint. That ended the inning, stranding 2 runners.
Video game 2 is Tuesday night, with Braves novice Ian Anderson set to deal with three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw.
Austin Riley led off the ninth inning with a tiebreaking homer that sparked a four-run outburst, and the Atlanta Braves opened their first National League Championship Series considering that 2001 with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.
It was the very first time since 12 March, the day spring training was suspended because of the coronavirus, there were fans in the mean an MLB game.
