{"id":658488,"date":"2026-04-02T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658488\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:01:16","slug":"diamondbacks-host-the-braves-on-3-game-home-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658488\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks host the Braves on 3-game home win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (4-2) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (3-3)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Thursday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> (0-0, 1.50 ERA, 0.83 WHIP, three strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Ryne Nelson<\/a> (0-0, 7.71 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -119, Diamondbacks -100; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks host the Atlanta Braves aiming to extend a three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

Arizona had an 80-82 record overall and a 43-38 record in home games last season. The Diamondbacks averaged 3.3 extra base hits per game, including 1.3 home runs.<\/p>\n

Atlanta went 76-86 overall and 37-44 in road games last season. The Braves scored 4.5 runs per game while giving up 4.5 last season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Pavin Smith: 10-Day IL (elbow), Tyler Locklear: 10-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (knee), Adrian Del Castillo<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Merrill Kelly<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Martinez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (4-2) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (3-3) Phoenix; Thursday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Reynaldo Lopez (0-0,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[25638,13491,22,191,46,4166,5,7905,192,97,1563,75686,38015,10367,651,1447,19,660,4,5171,5938,656,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-658488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-adrian-del-castillo","9":"tag-andrew-saalfrank","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","11":"tag-atlanta","12":"tag-atlanta-braves","13":"tag-atlantabraves","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-blake-walston","16":"tag-braves","17":"tag-corbin-burnes","18":"tag-danny-young","19":"tag-event_preview","20":"tag-hurston-waldrep","21":"tag-joe-jimenez","22":"tag-justin-martinez","23":"tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","24":"tag-major-league-baseball","25":"tag-merrill-kelly","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","28":"tag-ryne-nelson","29":"tag-sean-murphy","30":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116334538590114124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658488","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=658488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}