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Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (80-52, first in the NL West) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (77-55, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Roki Sasaki<\/a> (5-5, 4.42 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 114 strikeouts); Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver (0-0, 6.23 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, seven strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -131, Braves +110; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves play the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 77-55 record overall and a 43-23 record in home games. Braves hitters are batting a collective .247, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 80-52 overall and 40-26 in road games. Dodgers hitters have a collective .426 slugging percentage to rank second in the majors.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the fifth time these teams meet this season. The Braves have a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Harris II<\/a> leads the Braves with a .293 batting average, and has 30 doubles, a triple, 21 home runs, 18 walks and 72 RBIs. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 11 for 34 with two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shohei Ohtani<\/a> has 24 doubles, four triples, 30 home runs and 80 RBIs for the Dodgers. Max Muncy<\/a> is 10 for 31 with three doubles, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 4-6, .232 batting average, 3.71 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Dodgers: 7-3, .240 batting average, 3.26 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

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

Dodgers: Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andy Pages<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Treinen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Edwin Diaz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Wrobleski<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Will Smith: 60-Day IL (neck), Will Klein: 15-Day IL (elbow), Dalton Rushing<\/a>: 10-Day IL (arm), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":"Los Angeles Dodgers (80-52, first in the NL West) vs. Atlanta Braves (77-55, first in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[1384,191,46,4166,5,1134,1692,1522,192,10900,1087,75686,1523,2283,10367,1529,57,19,3617,1532,661,4,80,110,468,659],"class_list":["post-788735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-andy-pages","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-ben-casparius","tag-blake-treinen","tag-bobby-miller","tag-braves","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jake-cousins","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-justin-wrobleski","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-max-muncy","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117160936981555729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788735","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=788735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788735\/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=788735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}