After conquering the desert and the Bay Area over a seven-game road trip, the Braves are back home in Cobb County and they’ll be playing host to a team that’s helped them out a lot over this past week in the form of the Washington Nationals.
Although they lost on Thursday in a one-off makeup game against the Cubs, the Nationals had been on a bit of a roll as of late. The Nats beat Chicago twice on Saturday and that helped make the race for the best record in the NL a bit more interesting and then they helped the Braves out a ton by sweeping the Phillies in Philadelphia.