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Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (64-58, third in the NL West) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (73-48, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> (6-1, 3.36 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (12-7, 2.20 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 151 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -205, Diamondbacks +172; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the Arizona Diamondbacks to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has gone 41-21 at home and 73-48 overall. Braves pitchers have a collective 3.61 ERA, which ranks second in the NL.<\/p>\n

Arizona has a 28-31 record in road games and a 64-58 record overall. The Diamondbacks have gone 28-11 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Friday for the fifth time this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 35 home runs while slugging .549. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 11 for 41 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Corbin Carroll<\/a> has 24 doubles, 14 triples and 18 home runs for the Diamondbacks. Gabriel Moreno<\/a> is 12 for 42 with five doubles, a triple and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 7-3, .249 batting average, 2.69 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: 5-5, .260 batting average, 3.07 ERA, outscored opponents by nine 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

Diamondbacks: Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (adductor), Tommy Troy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Lawlar<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Zac Gallen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drey Jameson: 15-Day IL (hip), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Martinez<\/a>: 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":"Arizona Diamondbacks (64-58, third in the NL West) vs. Atlanta Braves (73-48, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[13491,22,191,46,4166,5,7905,654,192,919,97,1538,75686,5993,10367,543,651,1447,19,541,4,80,921,655,5938,659,30242,86],"class_list":["post-778392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-blake-walston","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-braves","tag-chris-sale","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-moreno","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-justin-martinez","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tommy-troy","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117093154409027526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778392","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=778392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}