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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (54-39, first in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (49-44, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> (4-1, 3.18 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (4-6, 5.34 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 82 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -166, Cardinals +137; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals play the Atlanta Braves with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 49-44 overall and 25-25 in home games. Cardinals pitchers have a collective 4.16 ERA, which ranks fifth in the NL.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 54-39 record overall and a 27-21 record in road games. Braves pitchers have a collective 3.61 ERA, which ranks third in the NL.<\/p>\n

The teams play Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Cardinals are ahead 3-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 22 home runs while slugging .536. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 11 for 37 with two doubles, a home run and two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 25 home runs while slugging .541. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 16 for 47 with two home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 5-5, .240 batting average, 3.64 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 5-5, .248 batting average, 5.06 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Max Rajcic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryne Stanek<\/a>: day-to-day (leg), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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 (54-39, first in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (49-44, third in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[46,5,160,75686,18050,10367,4679,19,370,541,1453,661,4,5171,80,921,8653,656,659,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-748771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-event_preview","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jordan-walker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-ryne-stanek","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116900494204705323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748771","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=748771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748771\/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=748771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}