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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (36-18, first in the NL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (22-30, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Spencer Strider<\/a> (2-0, 3.00 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Red Sox: Ranger Suarez<\/a> (2-2, 2.40 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 43 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -114, Red Sox -106; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox host the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boston has an 8-17 record at home and a 22-30 record overall. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.76 ERA, which ranks ninth in the majors.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has gone 19-8 in road games and 36-18 overall. Braves hitters have a collective .431 slugging percentage to lead the NL.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Willson Contreras<\/a> leads the Red Sox with 11 home runs while slugging .522. Wilyer Abreu<\/a> is 11 for 44 with four doubles and two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Harris II<\/a> has five doubles, 11 home runs and 29 RBIs for the Braves. Drake Baldwin<\/a> is 10 for 30 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 4-6, .258 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 6-4, .220 batting average, 3.13 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Trevor Story: 10-Day IL (groin), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Roman Anthony<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

Braves: Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Drake Baldwin: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), 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)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (36-18, first in the NL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (22-30, fifth in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,48,192,1563,5931,75686,38015,10367,5416,9978,19,661,4,90,793,1083,656,659,773,1946,409,606],"class_list":["post-709096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-braves","tag-danny-young","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-event_preview","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-roman-anthony","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spencer-strider","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116640004632711625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709096","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=709096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709096\/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=709096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}