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Know Your Foe #4: Rockies head east to face Braves on first leg of road trip

By Russ Oates Updated

ATLANTA BRAVES (5-4, t2 NL East)

Friday-Sunday: Three-game series @ Turner Field

Rockies' 2009 record against Atlanta: 4-4. The Rockies won the first and fourth games in both series, but collapsed in the middle.

2010 Braves so far: 2-1 series victory over Cubs, 1-2 series loss to Giants, 2-1 series win over Padres

Probable Pitchers

Friday, 16 April 2010 @ 5:35 pm MT

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Jason Hammel 0-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 6 4 4 0 3 4 5.14 1.29

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Derek Lowe 2-0 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 9 6 6 2 10 6 4.50 1.58

Derek Lowe has two wins, but he certainly went about it the hard way. In his first start of the season, he allowed three runs in the first inning and then two in the third. The offense bailed him out as the Braves exploded for 16 runs against the Cubs on Opening Day. He picked up his second win against the Giants back on Saturday, but walked seven batters. Time for the Rockies to make Lowe see the wrong end of a game.

Saturday, 17 April 2010 @ 5:10 pm MT

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Ubaldo Jimenez 2-0 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 15 3 3 0 4 13 2.25 1.58

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Kenshin Kawakami 0-1 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 5 3 2 0 1 1 3.00 1.00

Kawakami is the Braves' fifth starter, so he didn't make his first start of the season until last Sunday.

Sunday, 18 April 2010 @ 11:35 am MT

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Greg Smith 1-1 3 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 10 7 7 3 4 13 5.25 1.17

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Jair Jurrjens 0-1 2 2 0 0 0 0 8.1 11 10 8 0 4 3 8.64 1.80


Jurrjens' last start was ugly. He allowed right runs (all earned) in 3.1 innings of work against the Padres on Monday. 

Expected Lineup

 

Pos Player AVG OBP SLG OPS ISO BABIP wOBA
LF Melky Cabrera 0.088 0.205 0.118 0.323 0.029 0.107 0.155
2B Martin Prado 0.459 0.524 0.649 1.172 0.189 0.552 0.496
3B Chipper Jones 0.150 0.292 0.300 0.592 0.150 0.133 0.296
C Brian McCann 0.346 0.514 0.692 1.207 0.346 0.318 0.502
1B Troy Glaus 0.235 0.297 0.324 0.621 0.088 0.304 0.282
SS Yunel Escobar 0.243 0.282 0.297 0.579 0.054 0.273 0.268
RF Jason Heyward 0.303 0.410 0.667 1.077 0.364 0.389 0.452
CF Nate McLouth 0.150 0.370 0.150 0.520 0.000 0.273 0.268

 

Bench

 

Pos Player AVG OBP SLG OPS ISO BABIP wOBA
OF Matt Diaz 0.136 0.136 0.136 0.273 0.000 0.200 0.133
1B Eric Hinske 0.375 0.444 0.750 1.194 0.375 0.600 0.493
2B/3B Omar Infante 0.235 0.278 0.294 0.572 0.059 0.333 0.272
C David Ross 0.250 0.400 0.250 0.650 0.000 0.500 0.321

 

Closer

W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP
2010 - Billy Wagner 0-0 5 0 0 0 1 1 5.0 3 2 2 1 2 10 3.60 1.00


Recent Transactions

Lefty Jo-Jo Reyes was placed on the 15-day DL and lefty Michael Dunn was recalled from Triple-A Gwinett. Dunn arrived with the Atlanta organization along with Melky Cabrera in the deal for Javier Vazquez.

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