Photo by Bailey Orr/Texas Rangers/Getty Images Fresh off a 5-1 road trip, the Braves will play three against the reigning postseason champs After a 5-1 road trip, the Atlanta Braves will return to Truist Park to begin a nine-game homestand, which starts with a three-game series against the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers. The Braves (barely!) took two of three from the Marlins in Miami and then swept the Astros to improve to 12-5 on the season. They entered Thursday’s off day with a two-game advantage over the Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East standings. While Atlanta has play ..read more

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images The dynamic duo everyone saw coming. If you don’t know, here’s the current fWAR leaderboard for the Braves: FanGraphs | Leaderboards Yes, the best two players on the team to this point of the season have been Orlando Arcia and Marcell Ozuna. You would’ve gotten some decent odds on that before the season. Ozuna is the least surprising of the two and therefore the easiest to explain. He’s hitting the crap out of the ball. Like normal, he’s producing negative value as a baserunner and as a fielder because he’s a DH-only designation who runs like he’s dragging Bri ..read more

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Mejia allowed just one run over 6.1 innings. While there were a few noteworthy performances from Braves minor leaguers on Wednesday, it was overall a rough go of it for most of the squads down on the farm. With that, let’s dive into yesterday’s action. (9-8) Gwinnett Stripers 2, (7-10) Memphis Redbirds 1 Sandy Leon, DH: 1-1, HR, RBI, 2 BB Luke Williams, 1B: 1-4, RBI Leury Garcia, RF: 1-3, 1-4, 3B AJ Smith-Shawver, SP: 4.2 IP, 2 H, ER, BB, 3 K Box Score Gwinnett managed to put together their second back-to-back winning streak of the young sea ..read more

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Washington Nationals/Getty ImagesBraves Franchise History 1916 - Grover Cleveland Alexander shuts out the Boston Braves. It is the first of his 16 shoutouts of the season. 1950 - Seth Jethroe becomes the first black player to play for the Boston Braves. Jethroe goes 2-for-4 at the plate with a home run to help the Braves to an 11-4 win over the Giants at the Polo Grounds. 1971 - Atlanta rookie Earl Williams becomes the first player ever to reach the upper deck of Veterans Stadium. 1982 - The Atlanta Braves defeat the Houston Astros 6-5 and extend their winning streak ..read more

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports The Atlanta Braves completed a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros Wednesday and will return home with a 12-5 record. The Atlanta Braves came from behind again Wednesday to score a 5-4 win over the Houston Astros in extra innings. The victory completed a three-game sweep for Atlanta, improving their record for the season to 12-5. The Braves went 5-1 on the trip and will return home Friday where they will begin a nine-game homestand. Max Fried allowed three runs over five innings and Atlanta rallied back from a 4-2 deficit. Marcell Ozuna extended his hitting stre ..read more

Orlando Arcia came through in extras to help the Braves sweep the Astros | Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports In what looked like a day where the Braves could not get anything going, they rallied late in the game to defeat the Astros in extra innings. The Atlanta Braves took on the Houston Astros this afternoon in the series finale The first inning looked like the Braves may get something going when Ronald Acuña had a fly ball single that dropped in front of the center fielder and then got to second off of a balk from J.P. France on an attempted steal. However, France was able to retire the next thr ..read more

Max Fried looks to help the Braves sweep the Astros | Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports The Braves look to sweep the Astros behind Max Fried After taking the first two games of the series, the Atlanta Braves look to sweep the Houston Astros as Max Fried takes the mound. Fried looked sharp in his last start against the Marlins and the Astros’ starter J.P. France gave up eight earned runs against the Rangers in his last start. Kelenic is the only player in the Braves lineup to have faced France, so it will be fun to see how the rest of the lineup does against him. First pitch is scheduled for 2:10 p ..read more

With Albies out, Guillorme gets the start at 2B | Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports With Ozzie Albies on the IL, we have a new look Braves lineup As the Atlanta Braves face the Astros this afternoon, they will continue to be without their starting second baseman Ozzie Albies. Not only does this leave a hole in the position itself, but it is also significant in terms of the lineup. Albies has been a steady force as the second hitter. Now that he is injured there are some serious shoes to fill. In today’s lineup, yesterday’s surprise hero, Luis Guillorme will be staying at second base base batting ni ..read more

Max Fried looking to get back to form against the Astros | Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Max Fried had a great start against the Marlins, will that continue against the Astros? Max Fried and the Atlanta Braves are set to take on J.P. France and the Astros in the final of the three-game series this afternoon at Minute Maid Park. There is no sugar coating it, Max Fried has had a rough start to his season. In his first start of the season against the Phillies, he got lit up for three earned runs and three walks while throwing forty-three pitches in only 0.2 innings against the Phillies. In his nex ..read more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Albies is on the injured list after suffering a broken toe when he was hit by a pitch in Monday’s game Ozzie Albies is the third key player for the Atlanta Braves to be placed on the injured list before the end of April. Albies joins catcher Sean Murphy and starter Spencer Strider. Murphy is recovering from an oblique strain that he suffered in the opening series. Strider underwent an internal brace procedure on his pitching elbow and will miss the remainder of the season. Albies was hit by a pitch in the toe in Monday’s series opener aga ..read more