The Braves have rolled through much of their season so far, and will enter play on Friday with the largest division lead in baseball and the league’s second-best record, behind only the Rays. They’ll take their show on the road this weekend, heading to Toronto and the Rogers Centerre for the first time since August 2019. (While the Braves played road games against the Blue Jays as recently as 2021, those games were in Dunedin, FL, the Jays’ Spring Training home as a result of the pandemic.)
While Atlanta’s rotation remains in a state of flux, given that it currently has only three real members with Max Fried and Kyle Wright both shelved, the good news, for tonight at least, is that the Braves get the luxury of sending Spencer Strider to the mound.