{"id":711744,"date":"2026-05-29T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711744\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:33:18","slug":"reds-host-the-braves-in-first-of-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/711744\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds host the Braves in first of 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (38-19, first in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (29-26, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Grant Holmes<\/a> (3-2, 3.78 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 48 strikeouts); Reds: Chris Paddack<\/a> (0-6, 6.86 ERA, 1.67 WHIP, 35 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -152, Reds +126; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds begin a three-game series at home against the Atlanta Braves on Friday.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 29-26 overall and 14-12 at home. The Reds have a 12-7 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 38-19 record overall and a 21-9 record on the road. The Braves are first in the NL with 77 total home runs, averaging 1.4 per game.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> leads the Reds with a .279 batting average, and has 13 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs, 21 walks and 37 RBIs. Blake Dunn<\/a> is 14 for 41 with an RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> has 18 doubles and 15 home runs for the Braves. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 14 for 43 with a double, five home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 5-5, .247 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Braves: 6-4, .231 batting average, 4.10 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Rhett Lowder: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ke’Bryan Hayes: 10-Day IL (back), Jose Trevino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 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 (38-19, first in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (29-26, fourth in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[46,5,7026,12054,752,535,50,4259,1563,1177,1105,75686,640,2102,38015,10367,1176,9978,19,541,661,4,536,656,659],"class_list":["post-711744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-chris-paddack","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-danny-young","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-event_preview","tag-grant-holmes","tag-hunter-greene","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jose-trevino","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-reds","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116656944146507790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711744","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=711744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711744\/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=711744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}