The Braves are looking to continue their great play this season in game two against the Cardinals. This time with a bright young star on the mound.
Mike Soroka is having one of the most incredible starts to a career that anyone has ever seen. Soroka has allowed seven runs total and just five of those have been earned runs over seven games started. He hasn’t had a game score below 60 this entire season.
Soroka has struck out 41 batters in 44.2 innings and looks like a real ace for the Braves on the mound. After Mike Foltynewicz turned in another great start last night, things seem to be coming together nicely in the Braves rotation.
On the back end of the pitching staff things are starting to also shape up. The Braves went out and acquired Anthony Swarzak for a relatively low price and when looking back on his season so far it seems Swarzak just had a really rough seven game stretch in late April to early May. Outside of those seven games where he allowed eight runs Swarzak has been untouchable.
With a dominant starting staff, elite batting order and a bullpen that is really coming around the Braves are a scary looking team over the final two-thirds of the season with money to spend at the trade deadline.
The Cardinals were able to glimpse that firsthand in last night’s 5-2 loss, but tonight are hoping for better luck with Dakota Hudson on the mound.
Hudson is coming off of a good game against the Texas Rangers in which he allowed just two runs over six innings. His season overall though has not been all that great as he owns a 4.40 ERA and even worse 5.51 FIP suggesting that he has been lucky to this point.
Hudson has a problem with walks (22 in 47 innings), and often will pitch himself out of a game if a team stays patient.
The Braves will play a man down on the bench tonight as Matt Joyce was placed on the bereavement list to attend a funeral. Kyle Wright will take his roster spot for the time being and pitch in relief to strengthen the bullpen even more.
Atlanta is on national TV again tonight where they’ve typically performed pretty well this season. So let’s see if the Braves can make it four straight wins tonight and eight of their last 10.
Game Info
Game Date/Time: Saturday, May 25, 7:15 PM ET
Location: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
TV: FOX
Streaming: MLB.tv
Radio: 680 AM / 93.7 FM The Fan, Rock 100.5, Braves Radio Network
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