{"id":664395,"date":"2026-04-05T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664395\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:37:47","slug":"braves-play-the-diamondbacks-leading-series-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664395\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves play the Diamondbacks leading series 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves (6-3) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (4-5)<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix; Sunday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Martin Perez (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.46 WHIP, three strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Brandon Pfaadt (0-0, 7.50 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, three strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Diamondbacks -111, Braves -108; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves lead 2-1 in a four-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona went 80-82 overall and 43-38 in home games a season ago. The Diamondbacks scored 4.9 runs per game while giving up 4.8 in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta had a 76-86 record overall and a 37-44 record on the road last season. The Braves pitching staff had a collective 4.36 ERA last season while averaging 8.9 strikeouts and 3.3 walks per nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Jordan Lawlar: 10-Day IL (wrist), Pavin Smith: 10-Day IL (elbow), Tyler Locklear: 10-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Lourdes Gurriel Jr.: 10-Day IL (knee), Blake Walston: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Merrill Kelly: 15-Day IL (back), Andrew Saalfrank: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Corbin Burnes: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Martinez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (6-3) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (4-5) Phoenix; Sunday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Martin Perez (0-0,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[1118,1266,13491,146,22,4314,3287,46,653,5,654,97,18794,1563,13379,17141,38,652,2295,633,10367,1710,543,651,18402,370,660,4,256,352,656,659,773,185,12345],"class_list":{"0":"post-664395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-a-j-puk","9":"tag-aj-smith-shawver","10":"tag-andrew-saalfrank","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","13":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","14":"tag-athlete-injuries","15":"tag-atlanta-braves","16":"tag-az-state-wire","17":"tag-baseball","18":"tag-brandon-pfaadt","19":"tag-corbin-burnes","20":"tag-cristian-mena","21":"tag-danny-young","22":"tag-data-skrive","23":"tag-daysbel-hernandez","24":"tag-diamondbacks","25":"tag-ga-state-wire","26":"tag-georgia","27":"tag-ha-seong-kim","28":"tag-joe-jimenez","29":"tag-joey-wentz","30":"tag-jordan-lawlar","31":"tag-justin-martinez","32":"tag-lourdes-gurriel","33":"tag-martin-perez","34":"tag-merrill-kelly","35":"tag-mlb","36":"tag-mlb-baseball","37":"tag-pavin-smith","38":"tag-sean-murphy","39":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","40":"tag-spencer-strider","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-tyler-locklear"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664395","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=664395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}