Miami Marlins at Atlanta Braves - 5/28/22 MLB Picks and Prediction

Atlanta Braves (22-24) vs Miami Marlins (18-25)

Game Info: Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 4:10 pm (Truist Park)

Tucker Davidson (1-1) (8.71) vs Sandy Alcantara (4-2) (2.11)

Betting Odds: Atlanta Braves -120 / Miami Marlins +100 --- Over/Under: 8.5 Click Here for the Latest Odds

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The Miami Marlins will play the Atlanta Braves in Game 2 of their series at Truist Park on Saturday afternoon.

The Miami Marlins are 18-25 this season and have lost six of their last seven games. Miami lost Game 1 of this series by a score of 6-4 on Friday. The Miami pitching staff has a 3.46 ERA, a 1.21 WHIP, and a .223 opponent batting average this season. The Marlins offense has scored 176 runs with a .241 batting average and a .313 on base percentage. Jazz Chisholm is batting .290 with seven home runs and 27 RBI’s for the Marlins this season. The projected starter for Miami is Sandy Alcantara, who is 4-2 with a 2.11 ERA and a 1.07 WHIP over 59.2 innings pitched this season.

The Atlanta Braves are 22-24 this season and have won three of their last four games. Prior to the Game 1 win, Atlanta split their four game series with the Phillies. The Atlanta pitching staff has a 3.97 ERA, a 1.29 WHIP, and a .232 opponent batting average. The Braves offense has scored 191 runs with a .232 batting average and a .303 on base percentage this year. Austin Riley is batting .244 with 10 home runs and 21 RBI’s for the Braves this season. The projected starter for Atlanta is Tucker Davidson, who is 1-1 with a 8.71 ERA and a 2.03 WHIP over 10.1 innings pitched this season.

Miami is 4-1 in their last 5 Saturday games and 21-54 in their last 75 road games. The under is 13-7 in Miami’s last 20 road games. Atlanta is 11-2 in their last 13 Saturday games and 6-0 in their last 6 game two’s of a series. The over is 9-1-1 in Atlanta’s last 11 home games. Miami is 22-50 in these two teams last 72 head to head meetings.

Miami has not had much success against Atlanta in recent years, but does have the pitching advantage in this game. For Atlanta, Davidson has allowed 10 runs over 10.1 innings pitched. I expect Miami to take advantage of Davidson and to come out with the win.

The pick in this article is the opinion of the writer, not a PickDawgz site consensus.

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