Los Angeles Dojers Visiting will try to continue their mastery on Atlanta Braves, when they meet in the second competition of their three-market series on Saturday.
Dozers won 2–1 by the opener on Friday, so that they could increase their victory in six matches. Los Angeles has won all four competitions against Braves this season.
“Every victory is big, but especially coming away from a day,” said Dozers Shortstop Muki Bates. “By coming to the Trust Park, you know that the brevs are going to get ready to roll and they are playing good baseball.”
A pair of right hand in the pitching matchup is Roki Sasaki (0–1, 3.55) vs. Atlanta’s Spencer Shlavenbach (1-2, 2.87).
Sasaki must be making her seventh beginning. In his most recent beginning on 26 April, he played 5 2/3 innings and gave five hits, two walks and a season-high three runs on Pittsburgh’s 8-4 win. Sasaki never faced the brave.
Facing 10 straight games with a day of comfort on this road trip and their early rotation in the flux – Blake Snell and Tyler Glassno are working with shoulder issues and Clayton Karshaws are not ready to return from offsen toe and knee surgery – the dogs can start Sasaki and Yoshinobi Yamamot for five days. They are working with six days of comfort once a week.
“This is a conversation,” said Dave Roberts, the manager of the Dojers. “We did it with Yamamoto last year, around this time. This is another idea as far as we have to relax the quantity of the game in a row to relax them.”
Schwellenbach will start its seventh start and has been demanding its first win since 4 April. Schwellenbachs suffered losses in their last outing in Arizona on 27 April, when they allowed Diamondback to four runs (three acquired) in six innings in a 6–4 defeat.
“I think it is just telling yourself that you did what you were trying to do,” Shawlenbach said. “If you think about it in this way, the results don’t really matter. I mean, they do, but at the end of the day, you are able to learn and leave this stuff in the past and make sure that the next one is better.”
Schwellenbach control has been excellent. In 37 2/3 innings, he has allowed 31 hits, moved to six and dropped out of 33. He did not face the doseers this season, but won his alone start against him in 2024 as a fraud, when he threw six strong innings, conceded two runs and exited six in winning 6–2.
The Dozers on Friday managed two hits from just four hits – Bates, including his first domestic run since 14 April. Matt Olson of Atlanta hit his fifth homer on Friday and extended his on -book Streak in 19 consecutive games.
Dozers played their second game without Tommy Edman, who sprained their right ankle on Tuesday.
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