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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 (3-1, 1.95 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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

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: 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: 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: Javier Baez: 10-Day IL (ankle), Casey Mize: 15-Day IL (groin), Zach McKinstry: 10-Day IL (hip\/abdominal), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), 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), 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 (15-16, second in the AL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (22-9, 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":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2386],"tags":[46,29375,5,2259,1563,147,53,2583,75686,79,95,38015,713,10367,388,19,541,4,1132,768,656,659,314,594,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-686560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-bailey-horn","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-beau-brieske","12":"tag-danny-young","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-detroit-tigers","15":"tag-detroittigers","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-framber-valdez","18":"tag-gleyber-torres","19":"tag-hurston-waldrep","20":"tag-jackson-jobe","21":"tag-joe-jimenez","22":"tag-justin-verlander","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-matt-olson","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-ozzie-albies","27":"tag-reese-olson","28":"tag-sean-murphy","29":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","30":"tag-spencer-torkelson","31":"tag-tigers","32":"tag-troy-melton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116492796117666757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686560","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=686560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686560\/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=686560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}