{"id":761807,"date":"2026-07-26T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/761807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:09:14","slug":"orioles-and-braves-meet-to-determine-series-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/761807\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles and Braves meet to determine series winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (61-43, first in the NL East) vs. Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (51-54, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Baltimore; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> (4-3, 3.95 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 60 strikeouts); Orioles: Shane Baz<\/a> (4-9, 4.05 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 105 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Orioles -112, Braves -110; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Baltimore Orioles and the Atlanta Braves are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Baltimore has a 29-26 record at home and a 51-54 record overall. Orioles hitters have a collective .322 on-base percentage, the 10th-best percentage in the majors.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 29-23 record in road games and a 61-43 record overall. The Braves have the seventh-best team ERA in baseball at 3.69.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Taylor Ward<\/a> leads the Orioles with a .251 batting average, and has 20 doubles, seven home runs, 81 walks and 27 RBIs. Dylan Beavers<\/a> is 11 for 31 with four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Harris II<\/a> has 21 doubles, 19 home runs and 61 RBIs for the Braves. Drake Baldwin<\/a> is 16 for 39 with five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Orioles: 7-3, .240 batting average, 2.27 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 7-3, .278 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Orioles: Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Keegan Akin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chris Bassitt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Blaze Alexander: 10-Day IL (hand), Samuel Basallo<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Adley Rutschman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Helsley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl)<\/p>\n

Braves: Ronald Acuna<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (61-43, first in the NL East) vs. Baltimore Orioles (51-54, fourth in the AL East) Baltimore;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[1079,191,46,4166,47,5,192,82,5931,13462,75686,584,10367,581,19,661,4,5171,80,921,109,7326,656,5144,659,5694],"class_list":["post-761807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-dylan-beavers","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-sean-murphy","tag-shane-baz","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-taylor-ward"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116985499706554180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761807","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=761807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}