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Detroit Tigers<\/a> (15-16, second in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (22-9, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Thursday, 12:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Tigers: Framber Valdez<\/a> (2-1, 3.41 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 24 strikeouts); Braves: Bryce Elder<\/a> (3-1, 1.95 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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LINE: Braves -122, Tigers +102; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves, on a three-game home winning streak, host the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 22-9 record overall and a 12-5 record at home. The Braves have the top team ERA in baseball at 3.09.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 5-14 on the road and 15-16 overall. Tigers hitters are batting a collective .248, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB play.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> has 13 doubles and nine home runs for the Braves. Ozzie Albies<\/a> is 15 for 38 with three doubles, three home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

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Gleyber Torres<\/a> has two doubles, two home runs and nine RBIs for the Tigers. Spencer Torkelson<\/a> is 9 for 33 with three doubles and five home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves<\/a>: 8-2, .262 batting average, 3.80 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Tigers: 4-6, .265 batting average, 5.49 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Dylan Dodd<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Raisel Iglesias<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), AJ Smith-Shawver<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider<\/a>: 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<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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Tigers: Javier Baez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Zach McKinstry<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Connor Seabold<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Parker Meadows<\/a>: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (15-16, second in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (22-9, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[1266,191,46,4166,29375,5,2259,192,4720,399,7532,1563,53,13223,79,95,633,38015,713,1329,10367,1710,388,541,4,1132,1402,104,768,656,659,773,314,5095,1957,33608,398],"class_list":["post-686547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-aj-smith-shawver","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-beau-brieske","tag-braves","tag-bryce-elder","tag-casey-mize","tag-connor-seabold","tag-danny-young","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dylan-dodd","tag-framber-valdez","tag-gleyber-torres","tag-ha-seong-kim","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-jackson-jobe","tag-javier-baez","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-joey-wentz","tag-justin-verlander","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-parker-meadows","tag-raisel-iglesias","tag-reese-olson","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spencer-strider","tag-spencer-torkelson","tag-the-braves","tag-trey-sweeney","tag-troy-melton","tag-zach-mckinstry"],"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\/686547","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=686547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}