July 11, 2025; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Atlanta Braves Right Fielder Ronald Ekuna Junior (13) made a double hit against St. Louis Cardinals during the ninth innings at Bush Stadium. Compulsory Credit: Jeff Curry-Imgon Images Atlanta Brews injuries are eager to relax during the all-star break.
He absorbed another injury on Friday when the third basman Austin Riley faced a right right stomach which landed on the 10-day injured list on Saturday. Braves will also go on a break with back-to-back bulpen games due to lack of their early rotation.
But he has won three of the four games in Sunday afternoon road game against St. Louis Cardinals.
Atlanta won 6–5 on Friday, then on Saturday 7-6 Nacho Alwarz Junior remembered to replace the relay from Triple-e-Ginnet.
“We only struggle through such things,” said Brevs Manager Brian Snight. “I mean, we have done it for more than a year. So I also hate it for Austin, because he is doing the bat very well. It is one of those things.”
On the plus side, the outfielder Ronald Ekuna Junior remained in action while dealing with the worry of the low back. He changed his mind and got out of the home run darby on Monday, but he will play in an all-star game at his home ground in Atlanta on Tuesday, promising in the braves lineup.
Acuna is 6 -for -17 with three homes, two doubles and four RBI in its last four matches. He moved to number 3 on Saturday from his general leadoff spot, bypassing the relay. Alwarz went to 2 -for -4 with one run in place of Junior Relay.
Before the back-to-back bulpen started, the pitching landscape was complicated on the need to cover six innings in relief on Friday. He used six pitches on Saturday.
They will again roll a string of relievers on Sunday. Nathan Wils was given the option for Triple-e-Ginnet, which he claimed on waves on Friday, to make space for Pitcher Joy Wentz.
Braves did not name their opener until Sunday morning.
Cardinals gave their pitching rotation an opportunity to the right-handed Sunny Gray (9-3, 3.51 ERA) to start on Sunday before the break.
Gray won 4–2 over Washington’s citizens on Tuesday in his most recent beginning. He allowed two runs on five hits in five innings, while attacking six and ran one.
He threw only 70 pitches due to rain, which started 2 hours, 19 minutes at the beginning of the game and prepared for his pre-game.
Gray said after the beginning, “I clearly had nothing close to my best things or after a long delay tonight.”
In seven careers with gray 1-3 begins against the brave with 3.86 ERA.
Cardinals Third Basman Nolan Aranado on Friday extended its right index finger. Thomas Saggiz converted him into that game and started his place on Saturday.
“I have never done anything like this,” Aranado told St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “My finger hurts, and everything is like bothering. This is something that I usually do not deal with. I am trying to find it a little. Maybe rest. Go from there.”
Outfielder Lars Nootbaar is another St. Louis player who is ready for the break. He is struggling with the soreness of the rib cage and has come out of Saturday’s game after five innings.
“He will be below tomorrow,” the manager of the cardinals Oliver Marmol said after the game.
Cardinals made a roster trick before Saturday’s matchup, recalling Gordon Gracefo to join a fresh hand in Bulpen and returning to Matt Swanson to Triple-e Memphis.
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