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New York Mets<\/a> (36-51, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (50-35, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Christian Scott (2-0, 3.20 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 53 strikeouts); Braves: Grant Holmes<\/a> (4-4, 3.96 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 69 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -121, Mets -101; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the New York Mets to begin a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 50-35 overall and 25-16 in home games. The Braves have gone 17-8 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

New York has a 36-51 record overall and a 17-27 record in road games. The Mets have gone 27-12 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams play Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Harris II<\/a> has a .293 batting average to lead the Braves, and has 13 doubles and 14 home runs. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 14 for 38 with a home run and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Juan Soto<\/a> has a .293 batting average to lead the Mets, and has eight doubles, two triples and 17 home runs. Carson Benge<\/a> is 12 for 44 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 2-8, .193 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 2-8, .208 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ronald Acuna<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/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

Mets: Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Luis Robert<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Marcus Semien<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Clay Holmes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (fibula), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"New York Mets (36-51, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (50-35, first in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[46,5,5805,1712,1563,75686,640,10367,120,134,25115,9978,999,19,386,3617,101,661,4,1690,61,2548,4203,80,921,656,659],"class_list":["post-741902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-carson-benge","tag-clay-holmes","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-grant-holmes","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mets","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116855148631555672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741902","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=741902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}