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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (62-44, first in the NL East) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (45-62, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (11-6, 2.19 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 134 strikeouts); Mets: Christian Scott<\/a> (3-2, 3.13 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 78 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -168, Mets +137; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

New York is 23-30 in home games and 45-62 overall. The Mets have a 32-5 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 62-44 record overall and a 30-24 record on the road. Braves pitchers have a collective 3.76 ERA, which ranks eighth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the ninth time these teams match up this season. The Mets are up 5-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Michael Harris II<\/a> has 21 doubles and 19 home runs for the Braves. Drake Baldwin<\/a> is 15 for 39 with four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 5-5, .251 batting average, 3.21 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 6-4, .250 batting average, 5.33 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Austin Warren: 15-Day IL (forearm), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), 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

Braves: 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 (62-44, first in the NL East) vs. New York Mets (45-62, fifth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[46,5,919,10607,1712,5931,75686,10367,134,25115,19,101,661,4,1690,61,2548,4203,80,656,659],"class_list":["post-763543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-chris-sale","tag-christian-scott","tag-clay-holmes","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mets","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-robert-suarez","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116996871520844913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763543","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=763543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763543\/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=763543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}