{"id":689874,"date":"2026-06-07T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689874\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:59:09","slug":"braves-on-broom-watch-as-bryce-elder-looks-to-best-bubba-chandlers-buccos-in-sunday-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689874\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves on broom watch as Bryce Elder looks to best Bubba Chandler\u2019s Buccos in Sunday series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mauricio Dub\u00f3n\u2019s Braves<\/a> will be looking to end the homestand and first week of June with a 5-2 record with a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> this afternoon. After two consecutive games with a final score of 6-3, Atlanta has a chance to beat the \u201cseries win hangover \/ complacent in game 3\u201d allegations. C\u2019mon, boys \u2013 do it for the home crowd before you\u2019re off to Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we can come to expect every fifth day, Bryce Elder (5-3, 2.63 ERA) will toe the rubber for the Braves. His quality start during Tuesday\u2019s series opener against Toronto, where he gave up six hits, three earned runs, one home run, and struck out six, was a nice and much-needed bounceback from his Fenway implosion. In that outing on May 27, he was tagged for nine hits, six runs (five earned), and one walk before coming out in the fourth inning. Outside of that, Bryce just keeps Getting Away With It and is almost daring MLB to make him an All-Star for a second time (if an old friend doesn\u2019t beat him out for a spot\u2026<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The Pirate with the most ABs against Elder is Bryan Reynolds<\/a>, who is 2-for-8 with a walk. Jared Triolo<\/a>\u2019s singular hit in four at-bats is a homer.<\/p>\n

To salvage a win before heading to the airport, the Pirates will go to the 23-year-old and Georgia native Bubba Chandler<\/a> (2-6, 4.89 ERA). Full name Roy Reuben Chandler, his first and only start versus the Braves was September 17, 2025, where he tossed a \u201cdream\u201d start in his home state. He surrendered four hits and only one run in 5.2 innings in a 3-1 win for the Pirates. Drake Baldwin<\/a> accounted for half of those hits off Chandler, both for extra bases. Drake was driven in after a second inning triple by Chandler\u2019s now-teammate Marcell Ozuna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Also on this day: this was the game where Matt Olson<\/a> was ejected for the first time in his career over interference on a pop up.)<\/p>\n

The rest of the Braves lineup couldn\u2019t do much against Chandler or the rest of the Pirates staff, leaving yesterday\u2019s winning pitcher Spencer Strider<\/a> on the hook for the loss. Only four current Braves have seen him with a maximum of three at-bats. Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.<\/a>, Olson, and Ha-Seong Kim<\/a> are hitless, and Michael Harris II<\/a> has a single in two plate appearances.<\/p>\n

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But if he was so dominant, you ask, then why does his current ERA start with a 4? He just hasn\u2019t worked very efficiently in the 2026 campaign: he usually only goes five innings and reached six innings once in mid-April. The stuff has been as electric as advertised (with a fastball touching 99 mph), but command has been the issue. Carrying a 14.7% walk rate, he has had innings snowball on him. The Braves were able to solve the Pirates\u2019 second-best starter in Braxton Ashcraft<\/a> yesterday \u2013 let\u2019s see if the Braves can be patient enough for some of their patented big innings to get Chandler out early. First pitch of the series finale is at 1:35 pm ET.<\/p>\n

Game Info<\/p>\n

Game Date\/Time: Sunday, June 7, 1:35 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Location: Truist Park, Atlanta, GA<\/p>\n

TV: BravesVision<\/p>\n

Streaming: MLB.tv<\/p>\n

Radio: 680 AM \/ 93.7 FM The Fan, La Mejor 1600\/1460\/1130 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Dub\u00f3n\u2019s Braves will be looking to end the homestand and first week of June with a 5-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[5786,2111,69394,49761,58368,65821,157,18705,5282,67648,49760,9892,9885,133475,29504,363,2240,9884,299490,18702,99,364],"class_list":["post-689874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braxton-ashcraft","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-bryce-elder","tag-bubba-chandler","tag-chicago","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-ga","tag-ha-seong-kim","tag-jared-triolo","tag-marcell-ozuna","tag-matt-olson","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-roy-reuben-chandler","tag-spencer-strider","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}