{"id":684835,"date":"2026-04-28T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/684835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:33:17","slug":"braves-host-the-tigers-in-first-of-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/684835\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves host the Tigers in first of 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Tigers<\/a> (15-14, first in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (20-9, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Casey Mize<\/a> (2-1, 2.51 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (1-1, 2.70 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 14 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -122, Tigers +103; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves begin a three-game series at home against the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 20-9 overall and 10-5 at home. The Braves have the second-ranked team batting average in the NL at .274.<\/p>\n

Detroit has gone 5-12 on the road and 15-14 overall. Tigers pitchers have a collective 3.97 ERA, which ranks fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Tuesday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Drake Baldwin<\/a> has four doubles and seven home runs while hitting .311 for the Braves. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 16 for 31 with three doubles and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin McGonigle<\/a> has 11 doubles, two triples and two home runs for the Tigers. Riley Greene<\/a> is 13 for 33 with two doubles, two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 8-2, .270 batting average, 3.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 5-5, .267 batting average, 4.54 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

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

Tigers: Zach McKinstry: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/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":"Detroit Tigers (15-14, first in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (20-9, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[46,29375,5,2259,399,1563,147,53,2583,5931,75686,38015,713,10367,388,4140,19,370,661,4,768,624,656,659,594,33608],"class_list":["post-684835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-detroit-tigers","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-casey-mize","tag-danny-young","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-event_preview","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-justin-verlander","tag-kevin-mcgonigle","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tigers","tag-troy-melton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116481412530141174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684835","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=684835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}