Atlanta Braves (48-28, first in the NL East) vs. San Diego Padres (39-37, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n
San Diego; Monday, 10:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Grant Holmes (4-3, 4.33 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Padres: Michael King (4-6, 3.60 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 73 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Padres -111, Braves -110; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the Atlanta Braves on Monday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n
San Diego has a 39-37 record overall and a 19-19 record in home games. The Padres have the ninth-best team ERA in MLB play at 3.90.<\/p>\n
Atlanta is 24-14 on the road and 48-28 overall. The Braves have the second-best team ERA in baseball at 3.42.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Fernando Tatis Jr. has a .285 batting average to lead the Padres, and has 13 doubles, a triple and two home runs. Samad Taylor is 15 for 40 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Michael Harris II has 11 doubles and 14 home runs for the Braves. Matt Olson is 11 for 37 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 5-5, .243 batting average, 3.98 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n
Braves: 3-7, .230 batting average, 4.85 ERA, outscored by 19 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Padres: Matt Waldron: 15-Day IL (arm), Freddy Fermin: 7-Day IL (concussion), Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (knee), Luis Campusano: 10-Day IL (toe), Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Cronenworth: 7-Day IL (concussion), German Marquez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Laureano: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Braves: Mike Yastrzemski: day-to-day (undisclosed), Kyle Farmer: 10-Day IL (forearm), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sean Murphy: 60-Day IL (finger), Ronald Acuna Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Tyler Kinley: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hurston Waldrep: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Danny Young: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (48-28, first in the NL East) vs. San Diego Padres (39-37, second in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[361022,24017,4996,64,63,4034,266304,171806,54362,33568,18671,34111,69585,361023,170127,195738,270570,361024,242836,7312,293716,71622,6102,33139,591,6784,116268,16827,306889,178294,5886,1189,3029,204622,7311,85,18669],"class_list":["post-752753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aj-smith-shawver","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-hoeing","tag-danny-young","tag-fernando-tatis-jr","tag-freddy-fermin","tag-german-marquez","tag-grant-holmes","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-jeremiah-estrada","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-joe-musgrove","tag-joey-wentz","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-luis-campusano","tag-matt-olson","tag-matt-waldron","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-michael-king","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nick-pivetta","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-ronald-acuna","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spencer-strider","tag-sports","tag-tyler-kinley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}