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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (37-19, first in the NL East) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (23-31, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Thursday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (7-3, 1.89 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, 72 strikeouts); Red Sox: Payton Tolle<\/a> (2-2, 2.45 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -141, Red Sox +119; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox take on the Atlanta Braves after Jarren Duran<\/a> had four hits on Wednesday in an 8-0 win over the Braves.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 23-31 record overall and a 9-18 record at home. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.75 ERA, which ranks ninth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 37-19 overall and 20-9 in road games. The Braves have the second-ranked team batting average in the NL at .258.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Braves have a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 10 doubles, a triple, six home runs and 22 RBIs while hitting .285 for the Red Sox. Willson Contreras<\/a> is 17 for 40 with a double, two triples and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 15 home runs while slugging .546. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 12 for 42 with a double, four home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 5-5, .281 batting average, 3.74 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 6-4, .227 batting average, 4.00 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Roman Anthony: 10-Day IL (wrist), Garrett Crochet: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Story: 10-Day IL (groin), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), 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: Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Drake Baldwin: 10-Day IL (oblique), 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 (37-19, first in the NL East) vs. Boston Red Sox (23-31, 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":[191,46,4166,5,48,192,919,1563,75686,38015,604,10367,5416,9978,19,541,661,4,3973,1083,656,659,1946,409,606],"class_list":["post-710870","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-chris-sale","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-jarren-duran","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-payton-tolle","tag-romy-gonzalez","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-triston-casas","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116651340834188326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710870","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=710870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710870\/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=710870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}