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

Atlanta; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (0-1, 3.29 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (2-1, 3.94 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 16 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -193, Guardians +160; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Guardians play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 9-6 record overall and a 5-3 record at home. The Braves have the ninth-best team on-base percentage in the majors at .328.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 9-6 record overall and a 5-4 record on the road. The Guardians are fifth in the AL with 14 total home runs, averaging 0.9 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Drake Baldwin<\/a> leads the Braves with five home runs while slugging .607. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 11 for 39 with four doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jose Ramirez<\/a> has three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs while hitting .175 for the Guardians. Angel Martinez<\/a> is 12 for 32 with two doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .255 batting average, 2.76 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 6-4, .225 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), 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 (9-6, first in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (9-6, 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":[2380],"tags":[10986,6197,46,5,919,135,51,2565,1563,5931,75686,1383,42301,538,38015,10367,865,19,3617,4,656,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-673984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-andrew-walters","9":"tag-angel-martinez","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-chris-sale","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-guardians","15":"tag-clevelandguardians","16":"tag-danny-young","17":"tag-drake-baldwin","18":"tag-event_preview","19":"tag-gabriel-arias","20":"tag-george-valera","21":"tag-guardians","22":"tag-hurston-waldrep","23":"tag-joe-jimenez","24":"tag-jose-ramirez","25":"tag-major-league-baseball","26":"tag-mauricio-dubon","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-sean-murphy","29":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116391086888877000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673984","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=673984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673984\/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=673984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}