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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (89-64, first in the NL East) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (77-76, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (6-10, 3.91 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 127 strikeouts); Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (8-9, 3.71 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 141 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -121, Astros -101; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros host the Atlanta Braves to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Houston is 77-76 overall and 39-39 in home games. The Astros are third in MLB<\/a> play with 206 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has an 89-64 record overall and a 38-37 record in road games. The Braves have hit 192 total home runs to rank seventh in MLB play.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with a .311 batting average, and has 31 doubles, a triple, 40 home runs, 103 walks and 99 RBIs. Jeremy Pena<\/a> is 13 for 40 with three home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 72 extra base hits (33 doubles and 39 home runs). Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 11 for 41 with three doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 4-6, .237 batting average, 4.39 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 4-6, .235 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Steven Okert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Mike Burrows<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brice Matthews: 60-Day IL (knee), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Braves: Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (right shoulder), Lane Thomas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Bryce Elder: 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

___<\/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 (89-64, first in the NL East) vs. Houston Astros (77-76, first in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,13576,192,3225,75686,54,5828,10367,3540,19,541,363,4,10195,80,921,659,9278,91,2264],"class_list":["post-808058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-walter","tag-braves","tag-carlos-correa","tag-event_preview","tag-houston-astros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-lane-thomas","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-mike-burrows","tag-mlb","tag-peter-lambert","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-steven-okert","tag-tyler-mahle","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117291347030232111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808058","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=808058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808058\/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=808058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}