Grant Holmes takes the mound as Braves kick off West Coast road trip vs. Rockies
The longest road trip on the Braves’ 2026 schedule is right here.
The staff kicks off May with its solely three-city road trip of the season, a nine-game jaunt which carries by means of subsequent weekend.
Unfortunately for us individuals who respect a wholesome night time’s relaxation, this trip is again on the West Coast, beginning Friday night time in Denver towards the Colorado Rockies.
But fortunately, there’s solely a kind of left over the ultimate 4.5 months of the season (at the Giants and Padres in late June) after this one.
So put together your espresso pots for an additional shift and prepare for some elevation shenanigans the subsequent few days at Coors Field.
The Braves will flip to Grant Holmes (2-1, 3.62 ERA) to open the trip. The right-hander, who’s coming off back-to-back begins towards the Phillies, has been a little bit of a one-off-inning man of late. He allowed two runs in the third and one in the fifth final Saturday towards Philadelphia. In every of his prior three begins towards the Phillies, Marlins and Angels, the two, three and two runs he allowed, respectively, every got here in a single inning.
Holmes has been dwelling a bit dangerously, with 20 hits allowed and 21 strikeouts to 12 walks in 27 1/3 innings. But to this point, he hasn’t been burned badly, going six innings in three of his final 5 begins and never permitting greater than three runs in any of his first six begins.
He’ll be going through off towards Rockies left-hander Jose Quintana (1-2, 4.91), whom the Braves have some familiarity with from his 2023-24 tenure as a Met. It’s nonetheless early in the season however Quintana’s Colorado tenure has not gotten off to the finest begin. He frolicked on the injured listing with a proper hamstring pressure after making his first begin and his 4.91 ERA by means of 4 begins is his worst since 2021 and the second-worst of his 15-year main league profession.
He additionally has extra walks (11) than strikeouts (9).
However, he could have discovered one thing final trip, working a season-long 5 1/3 innings and permitting one run on two hits, putting out 5 and strolling two in a 3-1 win at the New York Mets on Sunday.
This might be simply his second house begin of the season, however the first did not go very properly. He allowed six runs (4 earned) on eight hits over 5 innings towards the Dodgers on April 20. That begin additionally noticed him give up two of the 4 homers he is given up by means of 4 begins, one thing Atlanta will look to take advantage of as the staff which has hit the third-most homers in the majors this season (43) in the launching pad that Coors will be.
Game Date/Time: Friday, May 1, 8:40 pm EDT
Location: Coors Field, Denver, CO
Streaming: MLB.television (and Braves.television if you happen to’re in-market, and so forth.)
Radio: 680 AM / 93.7 FM The Fan
