ATLANTA (AP) — Rafael Devers hit his 30th home run of the season and rookie Turner Hill had a two-run double as the San Francisco Giants snapped the Atlanta Braves' seven-game winning streak with a 7-3 win Monday night.
Anthony Molina (2-0), who was traded from the Braves to the Giants at the deadline, picked up the win against his former team in his first start of the season. He surrendered three runs in five innings and struck out a career-high six.
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Atlanta Braves designated hitter Drake Baldwin, left, reacts after hitting a double as San Francisco Giants first baseman Bryce Eldridge (8) looks on during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
San Francisco Giants designated hitter Rafael Devers hits a solo home run against the Atlanta Braves during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
San Francisco Giants pitcher Anthony Molina delivers to an Atlanta Braves batter during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
Atlanta Braves' Michael Harris II, right, rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run against the San Francisco Giants during the second inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
Jason Foley, Reiver Sanmartin and Dylan Smith combined for four shutout innings out of the bullpen in a game that was a makeup of a June 18 rainout.
Devers' first-inning home run to right field marked the fifth time in his career he has reached the 30-home run mark and was his fourth home run in his last eight games. He was 1 for 3 with two runs scored and two walks.
Atlanta starter Bryce Elder (8-8) allowed five runs in 5 1/3 innings. Michael Harris II hit his 23rd home run for the Braves.
Osleivis Basabe hit a home run to lead off a four-run sixth inning for the Giants that gave them a 6-3 lead. Hill had a pinch-hit, two-run double off Dylan Lee to break a 3-3 tie, and fellow rookie Bryce Eldridge capped the rally with an RBI single. Rookie Jonah Cox added a solo home run in the ninth inning.
The Giants, who have 25 fewer wins than the NL East-leading Braves this season, finished the season series 5-1 against Atlanta.
Braves: RHP AJ Smith-Shawver (0-0, 5.93 ERA) faces Nationals RHP Jake Irvin (2-8, 5.62) in the first of a two-game series at Washington on Tuesday.
Giants: RHP Logan Webb (8-8, 3.72) opens a three-game series against RHP Paul Skenes (9-11, 3.79) in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
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Atlanta Braves designated hitter Drake Baldwin, left, reacts after hitting a double as San Francisco Giants first baseman Bryce Eldridge (8) looks on during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
San Francisco Giants designated hitter Rafael Devers hits a solo home run against the Atlanta Braves during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
San Francisco Giants pitcher Anthony Molina delivers to an Atlanta Braves batter during the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
Atlanta Braves' Michael Harris II, right, rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run against the San Francisco Giants during the second inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
BIDUR, Nepal (AP) — Rajendra Dawadi was inside his classroom when a colleague rushed in with a warning: Floodwaters were racing through Nepal’s Trishuli Valley, tearing apart homes, bridges and entire villages.
Then a teacher received another warning by phone. Moments later, a parent arrived to take her child home. The danger had not yet been confirmed, but Dawadi, the principal, had little time to act. He rang the school bell and ordered his students and staff out of the building and toward higher ground.
“I immediately decided to stop ... school” and get the children out, he told The Associated Press.
As he followed them to a nearby hill, the floodwaters rose behind him. From the safety of the hillside, he turned to watch the school where he had once been a student — and where he had spent years teaching — disappear beneath a torrent of water, mud, boulders and debris. Two staff members could not make it and remain missing.
Dawadi’s decision to evacuate the school saved at least 900 students from last week’s devastating flash floods in Nepal, unleashed after a glacial collapse in the Himalayas. The disaster killed over 950 people in Nepal and Tibet, while more than 4,400 remain missing.
As Nepal grapples with the catastrophic natural disaster, Dawadi’s story has emerged as a striking example of foresight and courage.
The Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School had 1,643 students. At least 900 were on campus that morning, while some students were still making their way to school. Dawadi ordered those already there to leave and called bus drivers to tell them not to come.
One bus, packed with students, had already reached the school when Dawadi told the driver to turn back, he said. The bus crossed a newly constructed bridge and, moments later, the old bridge beside it collapsed.
For Dawadi, the scale of the destruction has become personal, as the school had been both his workplace and a large part of his life.
“I have no words. I got education from that school. And I gave education at that school,” he said.
The destruction of Dawadi’s school was not an isolated loss.
Across northern Nepal, the floods have left thousands of children without classrooms, disrupted their education and raised fears that the disaster could cost them months of schooling. Aid group Save the Children said in a statement that at least 69 schools in northern Nepal were destroyed, putting the education of nearly 19,000 students at risk.
Dawadi’s quick thinking and swift response during the disaster have been hailed as an act of heroism. When he returned to the site of the school days later, parents embraced him as they thanked him for saving their children.
“Their parents hugged me, they cried with me,” he said. “They were emotional.”
Student Suvina Tamang, 14, said the building was swept away shortly after the students had been evacuated. “I will thank him when I see him” for saving my life, she said.
But Dawadi is reluctant to accept the role of hero. For him, rescuing his students was his responsibility. Now he says, students will need psychological counseling. Then, lessons must begin again, even if the school must temporarily relocate.
His appeal to the Nepalese government is simple: rebuild the schools and get children back to classes.
Saaliq reported from New Delhi. Associated Press journalist Rishi Lekhi contributed to this report.
Rajendra Dawadi, a school teacher of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School, looks on in Trishuli Valley in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Rajendra Dawadi, a school teacher of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School, talks on his mobile phone in Trishuli Valley in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
