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Boston Red Sox<\/a> (18-26, fifth in the AL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (31-14, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (1-2, 2.78 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Braves: Bryce Elder<\/a> (4-1, 1.81 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 53 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -142, Red Sox +119; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves bring a 1-0 advantage into the next game of the series against the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 15-7 in home games and 31-14 overall. Braves hitters are batting a collective .268, the best team batting average in the NL.<\/p>\n

Boston is 18-26 overall and 10-12 in road games. The Red Sox have a 5-2 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Harris II<\/a> leads the Braves with a .308 batting average, and has five doubles, eight home runs, six walks and 24 RBIs. Austin Riley<\/a> is 10 for 37 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> has five doubles, eight home runs and 23 RBIs while hitting .245 for the Red Sox. Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> is 13 for 35 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .240 batting average, 2.25 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Red Sox: 5-5, .234 batting average, 2.40 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Eli White: 7-Day IL (concussion), Dylan Dodd: 15-Day IL (back), Ronald Acuna<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Red Sox: Connor Wong: day-to-day (ankle), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Danny Coulombe<\/a>: 15-Day IL (cervical spasms), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kutter Crawford: 15-Day IL (wrist), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Romy Gonzalez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Boston Red Sox (18-26, fifth in the AL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (31-14, first in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,662,5,48,192,4720,1396,7792,1563,75686,38015,10367,5416,19,661,4,3973,793,1083,921,656,659,1946,409],"class_list":["post-700312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-austin-riley","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-braves","tag-bryce-elder","tag-ceddanne-rafaela","tag-danny-coulombe","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-payton-tolle","tag-roman-anthony","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583322370937096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700312","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=700312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}