{"id":655315,"date":"2026-03-31T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:27:14","slug":"game-5-athletics-vs-braves-game-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655315\/","title":{"rendered":"Game #5, Athletics vs. Braves Game Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Athletics continue their interleague series with the Atlanta Braves today. The 3-1 Braves will take on the 0-4 A\u2019s at Truist Park in Atlanta. Making his first official start of the season for the A\u2019s is Aaron Civale. The 30-year-old righty was 4-9 with a 4.85 ERA last season with three different teams: the Milwaukee Brewers, the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs. He signed with the A\u2019s as a free agent in February. Civale will go up against 28-year-old lefty Jos\u00e9 Suarez for the Braves. Suarez just pitched in 19 innings for the Braves last season, going 2-0 with a 1.86 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Suarez will go up against this lineup for Mark Kotsay\u2019s A\u2019s today who will see Jacob Wilson leading off for the first time in 2026:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Civale will face off against this lineup for the homestanding Braves:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Follow the Game:<br \/>Watch:<br \/>Athletics &#8211; NBCSCA<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Listen:<br \/>Athletics &#8211; Talk 650 KSTE, A\u2019s Cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics continue their interleague series with the Atlanta Braves today. The 3-1 Braves will take on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[79248,191,46,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-655315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-athletics-game-information","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116326147237158060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}