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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (8-6, first in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (9-5, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Parker Messick<\/a> (1-0, 0.82 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 11 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (0-0, 3.86 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -118, Guardians -101; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the Cleveland Guardians with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 5-2 record in home games and a 9-5 record overall. Braves hitters have a collective .335 on-base percentage, the fifth-best percentage in the majors.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has an 8-6 record overall and a 4-4 record in road games. The Guardians have a 6-1 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Drake Baldwin<\/a> has two doubles, five home runs and 16 RBIs for the Braves. Matt Olson<\/a> is 11 for 39 with four doubles, four home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> leads the Guardians with a .273 batting average, and has two doubles, five home runs, five walks and 11 RBIs. Angel Martinez<\/a> is 11 for 31 with a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .257 batting average, 2.66 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 6-4, .230 batting average, 3.07 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-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

Guardians: Gabriel Arias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), George Valera<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Andrew Walters<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Hunter Gaddis: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians (8-6, first in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (9-5, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[10986,6197,191,46,4166,5,192,22912,51,1563,5931,75686,1383,42301,38015,10367,19,370,541,4,34644,656,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-673146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-andrew-walters","9":"tag-angel-martinez","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-atlantabraves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-braves","15":"tag-chase-delauter","16":"tag-cleveland-guardians","17":"tag-danny-young","18":"tag-drake-baldwin","19":"tag-event_preview","20":"tag-gabriel-arias","21":"tag-george-valera","22":"tag-hurston-waldrep","23":"tag-joe-jimenez","24":"tag-major-league-baseball","25":"tag-martin-perez","26":"tag-matt-olson","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-parker-messick","29":"tag-sean-murphy","30":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116385247626454114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673146","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=673146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673146\/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=673146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}