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New York Mets<\/a> (36-53, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (52-35, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Sunday, 12:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Nolan McLean<\/a> (5-5, 3.78 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 113 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (6-5, 3.27 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 61 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -198, Mets +161; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets will attempt to end their three-game road slide in a matchup with the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 27-16 record in home games and a 52-35 record overall. The Braves have a 38-12 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

New York has a 36-53 record overall and a 17-29 record on the road. The Mets have gone 25-4 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 22 home runs while slugging .533. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 11 for 40 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Juan Soto<\/a> has eight doubles, two triples and 18 home runs while hitting .296 for the Mets. Mark Vientos<\/a> is 5 for 29 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 4-6, .205 batting average, 4.14 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

Mets: 2-8, .223 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ronald Acuna<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Mets: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Luis Robert<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Marcus Semien<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), 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 (36-53, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (52-35, 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":[46,5,1712,75686,10367,120,134,25115,999,19,386,228,370,541,101,661,4,1690,61,2548,4203,2517,80,921,656,659],"class_list":["post-743607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-clay-holmes","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-mark-vientos","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-mets","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-nolan-mclean","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116866473229704825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743607","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=743607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743607\/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=743607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}