The brave of New York and Atlanta only spent three full days without opposing each other.
But the two teams will seem different on Monday evening when the food welcome the brave in the opening of a series of four games between the long -standing rivals of the National League East.
Paul Blackburn (0-1. 6.92 ERA) should start for the food against his right-handed colleague Spencer Schwellenbach (5-4, 3.26).
The two teams lost the rubber game of a series of three games on the road on Sunday. The dishes were routed by the phillies of Philadelphia 7-1 Several hours after the brave fell in Miami Marlins 5-3.
The eighth defeat of the food in nine games abandoned them from the first place in the NL East with the Phillies and enlarged the offensive problems that arose during the slippage.
New York was upgraded 62-28 in the last nine games, a section in which the dishes hit only .218. Players outside Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo, who generally occupy the first four places in alignment, only strike .186.
The dishes took a step to tackle their offense on Sunday when the receiver Francisco Alvarez was optionized in Triple-A Syracuse. Alvarez entered the season with 37 circuits in 228 big league games, but only struck. 236 with three circuits in 35 games since his return from a broken bone hammate.
The 23-year-old was only 3 for 18 in his last five games, although he went deep in his last at-bat on Saturday evening.
“There is a lot of potential there and when he plays with his potential, he is lucky to be a fairly special player,” said the food manager Carlos Mendoza. “And we are going to need him. We expect him to return. But right now, we have the impression that he is better for him to go there and get representatives.”
The Braves helped to deepen the food crisis while sweeping a series of three games in Georgia last week. But the hopes of Atlanta to take a race for dishes and phillies took a sure blow on Saturday when the left -hander of AS Chris Sale was placed on the injured list with broken ribs.
The brave juggled their rotation so that the sale, the reigning winner of NL Cy Young Award, could present in the two series against the dishes. But the sale was injured in diving to a group by Soto during the ninth round last Wednesday, when the Southpaw arrived in a first full game since 2019.
The sale is 5-2 with an MPM of 1.23 in his last 10 departures, a section in which he withdrew 82 in 66 innings for the Braves, who drag the phillies by 11 games and took seven games behind the Brewers of Milwaukee in the race for the last point of Joker.
The sale will probably be replaced in the rotation by Didier Fuentes, 20, who became the youngest player of the major leagues during his beginnings on Friday.
“It’s a hard blow for us and (sale),” said the manager of the Braves on Saturday. “He launched so well. It’s tough.”
Blackburn suffered the defeat against the sale and the brave last Wednesday, when he granted four points (three deserved) on 3 2/3 rounds. Schwellenbach did not take into account the decision against the dishes last Tuesday after abandoning four points in seven-rounds in the victory of 5-4 and 10 rounds from Atlanta.
Blackburn is 0-1 with an MPM of 2.63 in 13 2/3 rounds on three career starts against the Braves. Schwellenbach has a 2-0 sheet with an MPM of 1.93 in 28 rounds in four starts against the dishes.
– field level media