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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (39-19, first in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (29-27, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (2-3, 2.70 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 40 strikeouts); Reds: Brady Singer<\/a> (2-4, 6.26 ERA, 1.70 WHIP, 34 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -143, Reds +120; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves face the Cincinnati Reds leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 29-27 overall and 14-13 at home. The Reds are 13-5 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 39-19 record overall and a 22-9 record in road games. Braves pitchers have a collective 3.16 ERA, which ranks fourth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has 13 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs and 37 RBIs while hitting .274 for the Reds. Sal Stewart<\/a> is 15 for 37 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Harris II<\/a> has a .308 batting average to lead the Braves, and has six doubles and 13 home runs. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 11 for 39 with four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 5-5, .257 batting average, 4.85 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 7-3, .253 batting average, 3.26 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), 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: Drake Baldwin<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), 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 (39-19, first in the NL East) vs. Cincinnati Reds (29-27, 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":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,757,12054,192,50,1563,5931,1177,1105,75686,2102,38015,10367,1176,9978,19,370,3617,661,4,6513,656,659],"class_list":["post-712616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-brady-singer","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-braves","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-danny-young","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jose-trevino","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-sal-stewart","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116662677569528473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712616","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=712616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712616\/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=712616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}