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Texas Rangers<\/a> (49-47, first in the AL West) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (55-40, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Cal Quantrill (3-1, 3.11 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 28 strikeouts); Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (9-6, 2.20 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 117 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -216, Rangers +174; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the Texas Rangers to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 27-18 record at home and a 55-40 record overall. Braves hitters are batting a collective .246, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Texas is 25-25 on the road and 49-47 overall. The Rangers have a 17-10 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ozzie Albies<\/a> has 21 doubles, 14 home runs and 51 RBIs while hitting .267 for the Braves. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 15 for 47 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with 16 home runs while slugging .423. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 11 for 37 with four home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 5-5, .243 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Rangers: 5-5, .257 batting average, 5.87 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Mike Yastrzemski<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Martin Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), 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

Rangers: Cody Freeman: 10-Day IL (disc), Jacob deGrom: day-to-day (glute), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jalen Beeks: 10-Day IL (back), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jakob Junis<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand)<\/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":"Texas Rangers (49-47, first in the AL West) vs. Atlanta Braves (55-40, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,63677,9977,919,4789,75686,18086,721,400,8640,10367,7906,19,370,661,10942,119,4,1132,13188,80,921,656,659,69],"class_list":["post-754062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-chris-sale","tag-danny-jansen","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-jakob-junis","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-michael-helman","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-robert-garcia","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-texas-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116934692260973476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754062","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=754062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754062\/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=754062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}