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New York Mets<\/a> (53-68, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (72-48, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Zach Thornton<\/a> (3-2, 2.52 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Braves: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (3-9, 4.83 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 98 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -160, Mets +136; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves and New York Mets play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 40-21 record in home games and a 72-48 record overall. Braves hitters have a collective .418 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the majors.<\/p>\n

New York has a 53-68 record overall and a 28-34 record in road games. The Mets have gone 26-47 in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the 13th time these teams match up this season. The Mets are ahead 7-5 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> has 29 doubles, 35 home runs and 74 RBIs for the Braves. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 10 for 42 with four home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Marcus Semien<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple, 14 home runs and 41 RBIs for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 15 for 40 with a double, a triple and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 7-3, .243 batting average, 2.69 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 6-4, .259 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Mets: Austin Warren<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Devin Williams<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Cionel Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"New York Mets (53-68, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (72-48, first in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,2109,5,192,5805,8754,83,75686,10367,134,25115,19,386,541,4,61,80,921,659,91,93940],"class_list":["post-776614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-austin-warren","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-carson-benge","tag-cionel-perez","tag-devin-williams","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tyler-mahle","tag-zac-thornton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117081782595488573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776614","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=776614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776614\/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=776614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}