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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (52-38, first in the NL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (47-45, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Grant Holmes<\/a> (5-4, 3.83 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Pirates: Jared Jones<\/a> (1-1, 5.28 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -122, Braves +100; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates meet the Atlanta Braves after Ryan O’Hearn hit three home runs against the Braves on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has gone 24-22 at home and 47-45 overall. Pirates pitchers have a collective 4.27 ERA, which ranks ninth in the NL.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has gone 25-20 in road games and 52-38 overall. The Braves have the sixth-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .413.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the fifth time these teams square off this season. The Braves are ahead 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 21 doubles, two triples and 13 home runs for the Pirates. Esmerlyn Valdez<\/a> is 16 for 37 with three doubles, a triple, three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 48 extra base hits (24 doubles and 24 home runs). Michael Harris II<\/a> is 14 for 42 with two doubles, two home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 6-4, .311 batting average, 5.69 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 3-7, .238 batting average, 5.73 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Konnor Griffin: 10-Day IL (finger), Evan Sisk: 15-Day IL (elbow), Wilber Dotel: 15-Day IL (lat), Chris Devenski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (illness), Spencer Horwitz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Oneil Cruz: 10-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n

Braves: Martin Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), 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

___<\/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 (52-38, first in the NL East) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (47-45, fourth in the NL Central) Pittsburgh;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[46,5,5343,6965,55483,75686,640,5627,10367,19,370,541,661,4,10,776,64,4297,80,921,656,950,659],"class_list":["post-746198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-chris-devenski","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-event_preview","tag-grant-holmes","tag-jared-jones","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-horwitz","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116883460168812445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746198","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=746198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746198\/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=746198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}