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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (85-58, first in the AL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (85-59, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Freddy Peralta<\/a> (7-11, 4.96 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 140 strikeouts); Braves: A.J. Smith-Shawver (0-1, 7.13 ERA, 1.75 WHIP, 15 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -118, Rays -104; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves begin a three-game series at home against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has an 85-59 record overall and a 48-24 record at home. The Braves rank fourth in the NL with 182 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 38-33 in road games and 85-58 overall. The Rays are 63-24 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 37 home runs while slugging .507. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 17 for 37 with three doubles, three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> has 21 doubles, a triple and 38 home runs for the Rays. Yandy Diaz<\/a> is 15 for 43 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .248 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 6-4, .265 batting average, 4.35 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

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

Rays: Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (forearm), Bryan Baker<\/a>: day-to-day (illness), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Shane McClanahan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Williamson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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":"Tampa Bay Rays (85-58, first in the AL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (85-59, 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":[191,46,4166,5,4806,192,13151,6925,75686,753,1180,4682,19,1095,541,4,80,921,1956,5720,659,68,3348],"class_list":["post-799600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-braves","tag-bryan-baker","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-jake-fraley","tag-junior-caminero","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117234546990790824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799600","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=799600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799600\/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=799600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}