Atlanta Braves at San Francisco Giants:
The Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants are in the heat of the National League Wild Card chase and wrap up their series in the Bay Area on Thursday with a crucial battle of aces.
Max Fried gets the start on the mound for Atlanta, who owns a 3.56 ERA with only 0.8 home runs per nine innings allowed, but he enters in his worst form of the season.
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Fried has made only two starts in the past 30 days, giving up 10 runs, nine of which were earned, in starts against the Miami Marlins and Colorado Rockies, pitching 8 1/3 innings across these two starts.
On the Giants side, Logan Webb gets the pitching start. Webb has always done his best work in San Francisco with an ERA of 2.71 and 0.4 home runs per nine innings allowed in his six seasons at home compared to a 4.07 ERA and 0.8 home runs per nine innings allowed on the road.
Webb faces a Braves offense that is in disarray, ranking second-worst in the National League in strikeouts per at-bat and entered Wednesday tied for 11th among the 15 National League teams in runs per game with just under 4.3 runs per game.
With Webb posting a 2.49 ERA at home this season and Fried struggling since the All-Star Break, the Giants will wrap up this series with a win on Thursday.
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