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Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (34-29, second in the NL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (42-21, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Mitch Keller<\/a> (5-2, 4.35 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (3-3, 2.79 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 42 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -146, Pirates +122; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 42-21 record overall and a 19-11 record in home games. The Braves are 33-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has a 34-29 record overall and a 16-14 record on the road. Pirates hitters are batting a collective .256, which ranks third in the NL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> has 19 doubles and 17 home runs while hitting .269 for the Braves. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 9 for 35 with a double and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Oneil Cruz<\/a> has 10 doubles and 14 home runs for the Pirates. Henry Davis<\/a> is 4 for 24 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .233 batting average, 4.09 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Pirates: 7-3, .293 batting average, 4.96 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Sean Murphy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drake Baldwin: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Pirates: Konnor Griffin<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Joey Bart: 10-Day IL (foot infection)<\/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":"Pittsburgh Pirates (34-29, second in the NL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (42-21, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[46,5,6965,1563,75686,8638,38015,10367,9545,9978,19,370,541,4163,4,1330,10,776,64,4297,921,656,659],"class_list":["post-717834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-chris-devenski","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-henry-davis","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-konnor-griffin","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-oneil-cruz","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116696580298052114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717834","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=717834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717834\/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=717834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}