Aug 7, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Braves commenceing pitcher Chris Sale (51) throws aobtainst the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning at Truist Park. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY SportsChris Sale will get an opportunity to try to duplicate a standout perestablishance on its 10th anniversary Monday night when the Atlanta Braves initiate off a high-sgets, four-game road series aobtainst the San Francisco Giants.
The Braves (61-56) and Giants (61-59) commence the week splitd by 1 1/2 games in the National League’s crowded untamed-card race. San Francisco shiftd up at Atlanta’s expense when it won two of three in a trip to Georgia last month.
Sale (13-3, 2.75 ERA) pitched the Braves’ lone thrive in that series, a 3-1 thrive on July 6. He helped one run on three hits in six innings with two walks and nine strikeouts.
That wasn’t csurrfinisherly as amazeive as his only nurtureer visit to San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2014, when the left-hander shut out the Giants on four hits with 12 strikeouts over eight innings of a 3-2, 10-inning thrive for the Chicago White Sox.
The extfinishedtime American League pitcher has faced the Giants fair once since and will get a nurtureer 2-0 enroll with a 1.80 ERA in three commences aobtainst San Francisco into the series discneglecter.
Sale’s opposing pitcher in the 2014 game was Ryan Vogelsong, who reexhausted after the 2016 season.
On Monday, Sale will be included in a alignup of multi-time Cy Young Award honestates. Sale has finished in the top six of the voting on seven split occasions, while his opponent, Giants left-hander Blake Snell (2-3, 4.31 ERA), is a two-time thrivener (2018 and 2023).
Snell will get the ball riding a personal two-game thrivening streak, which includes throthriveg a no-hitter aobtainst the Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 2, after going thriveless in his first 10 commences this season. The 31-year-elderly did not pitch in the earlier series in Atlanta.
He’s never beaten the Braves in three nurtureer commences, going 0-2 with a 4.20 ERA.
In their nurtureers that have featured two ERA titles for Snell and eight All-Star pickions for Sale, the pitchers have gone head-to-head fair once. That occurred on May 13, 2017, when Sale was pitching for the Boston Red Sox and Snell for the Tampa Bays Rays.
Sale struck out 12 Tampa Bay Rays in seven innings of a 6-3 game and got the thrive. Snell helped six runs in 5 2/3 innings to get the loss.
The Braves and Giants will greet for the first time since they made a trade at the deadline last month. Atlanta got Jorge Soler and Luke Jackson for injured Tyler Matzek and a unconvey inant-league infielder Sabin Ceballos.
Soler hit two homers and drove in four runs Sunday aobtainst the Colorado Rockies, but the Braves lost for the seventh time in their past eight games.
Matt Olson, another Braves perestablisher who will honor a homecoming of sorts with his return to the San Francisco Bay Area — he perestablished six seasons for the Oakland Athletics — shelp his team still has a run in it.
“We haven’t gotten boiling yet,” he shelp in Colorado, where the Braves lost two of three this past weekfinish. “You never understand when it’s going to happen. We show up every day with a mindset that it’s going to commence today. We’ll see if we can get boiling at the right time.”
Meanwhile, the Giants have won four of their past five. They’ll have to shrug off the lone loss of the stretch, 5-4 to the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.
“All the games count the same; it’s about thrivening as many games as we can right now,” Giants handler Bob Melvin shelp about the convey inance of the Braves series.
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