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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (23-10, first in the NL East) vs. Colorado Rockies<\/a> (14-19, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Denver; Saturday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (5-1, 2.31 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 38 strikeouts); Rockies: Chase Dollander<\/a> (3-2, 2.25 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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LINE: Braves -228, Rockies +187; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves visit the Colorado Rockies trying to continue a three-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

Colorado has a 7-7 record in home games and a 14-19 record overall. Rockies pitchers have a collective 4.29 ERA, which ranks 10th in the NL.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 11-4 on the road and 23-10 overall. Braves<\/a> hitters have a collective .451 slugging percentage to lead the majors.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Troy Johnston<\/a> has a .320 batting average to lead the Rockies, and has eight doubles and two home runs. Mickey Moniak<\/a> is 15 for 39 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

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Matt Olson<\/a> has 10 home runs, 18 walks and 29 RBIs while hitting .297 for the Braves. Ozzie Albies<\/a> is 16 for 39 with four doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 5-5, .277 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 7-3, .267 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockies: McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Feltner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (tricep), Kris Bryant<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Pierson Ohl<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jeff Criswell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (23-10, first in the NL East) vs. Colorado Rockies (14-19, fourth in the NL West) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[1266,191,46,4166,5,192,717,919,52,1563,13223,633,38015,7904,10367,1710,402,541,42377,3568,4,1132,23759,104,1945,656,659,773,22739],"class_list":["post-688265","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-baseball","tag-braves","tag-chase-dollander","tag-chris-sale","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-danny-young","tag-dylan-dodd","tag-ha-seong-kim","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-jeff-criswell","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-joey-wentz","tag-kris-bryant","tag-matt-olson","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-pierson-ohl","tag-raisel-iglesias","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spencer-strider","tag-troy-johnston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116504144328430970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688265","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=688265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688265\/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=688265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}