{"id":316642,"date":"2026-08-08T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:40:17","slug":"new-york-yankees-and-atlanta-braves-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316642\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (70-46, first in the NL East) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (65-51, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Saturday, 3:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (12-6, 2.08 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 143 strikeouts); Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (5-5, 3.42 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 78 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -139, Yankees +124; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

New York has gone 28-25 in home games and 65-51 overall. The Yankees are first in the AL with 164 total home runs, averaging 1.4 per game.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 31-26 record on the road and a 70-46 record overall. The Braves have gone 49-16 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> has 19 doubles, three triples and 31 home runs for the Yankees. Jasson Dominguez<\/a> is 9 for 41 with two doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> has 29 doubles and 33 home runs for the Braves. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 12 for 35 with a double and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 5-5, .189 batting average, 2.89 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 8-2, .260 batting average, 2.22 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Aaron Judge: 60-Day IL (rib), Cody Bellinger: 10-Day IL (leg), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n

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

___<\/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 (70-46, first in the NL East) vs. New York Yankees (65-51, second in the AL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13831,48671,5311,119368,68633,54398,22383,34722,22129,119370,996,67149,67148,9,11,10,321,119369,119371],"class_list":["post-316642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-ben-rice","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-chris-sale","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-robert-suarez","tag-spencer-schwellenbach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}