DENVER, CO. – The Atlanta Braves will host the Colorado Rockies this weekend. The Braves come into this sequence having received a sequence towards Milwaukee earlier this week. The sequence win was Atlanta’s first in almost a month.
The Rockies are within the midst of getting the worst Main League Baseball common season of all time. As of Friday, the thirteenth, the Rockies have 13 wins in 68 video games. Fortunate quantity 13 got here on Friday when Colorado defeated the San Francisco Giants 8-7 on a game-winning bases-loaded two-run single within the ninth inning by former Atlanta Braves infielder Orlando Arcia.
Colorado was almost swept for the eleventh consecutive time earlier than coming again to win the sport on Thursday afternoon at Coors Subject. On Wednesday, the Rockies have been forward late within the sport earlier than the Giants scored 4 runs late within the sport to go forward 10-7.
Arcia, who was lower by the Braves and signed by the Rockies earlier this season, performed first base on Thursday. He has performed everywhere in the infield and as a pinch-hitter for the Rockies this season. Despite the fact that he’s batting underneath .200 in the mean time, Arcia returns to Atlanta having hit in all three video games towards the Giants. The sport-winning double gave him three RBI for the sequence and momentum for a sequence in Atlanta.
He’ll face Atlanta’s greatest pitchers throughout this sequence: Bryce Elder tonight (7:15 p.m. begin), Spencer Strider on Saturday (4:10 p.m.), and Chris Sale on Sunday (1:35 p.m.). Each Elder and Sale are coming off of robust begins.
The 30-year-old Venezuelan couldn’t be coming into Atlanta on a greater notice. The walkoff hit was his first of the 2025 season.
Who’s Sizzling: Michael Harris II hit a house run through the Braves’ win in Milwaukee on Thursday. The 2 RBIs throughout that sport have been his first of the sequence and thirty seventh and thirty eighth of the season. Harris is second on the group in RBI behind Matt Olson (39).
Who’s Not: Grat Holmes hasn’t received any of his final three begins. Throughout these outings towards the Boston Purple Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and at Milwaukee on Tuesday, Houses has given up at the very least three earned runs and 5 hits in a median of 5 innings.
Some excellent news: Holmes managed to strike out 9 hitters twice throughout that span, together with throughout his most up-to-date begin towards the Brewers.
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