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How to watch the Braves on Friday, this weekend: Time, TV, starting pitchers April 13-15

Preston Tucker was drafted in the seventh round in 2012 by the Houston Astros. He was the 219th player drafted that year. His brother, Kyle, was the fifth player taken in 2015. The Braves acquired Tucker on Dec. 20, 2017 from the Astros for a player to be named later. Tucker, who was born July 6, 1990, in Tampa, played college baseball for the Florida Gators. He graduated with a degree in anthropology. Tucker hit 24 home runs and had 96 RBIs in 2017 for Triple-A Fresno in the Astros organization. Tucker
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April 12, 2018

The Braves will put the wraps on their nine-game trip with a three-game series this weekend at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

So far on the trip, the Braves have taken two of three at Coors Field last weekend and won Wednesday to avoid a sweep in a three-game series at Washington. The Braves enter the weekend series with a 7-5 record, and the Cubs are 6-6.

A note about the weather, though. After a projected high of 66 degrees Friday, the forecast as of late Thursday afternoon calls for a high of 44 on Saturday (with thunderstorms and an 80 percent chance of rain) and a high of 38 on Sunday (with a 70 percent chance of rain). Earlier Thursday, snow was in the Sunday forecast.

If you want to watch the games Friday-Sunday, here are some details:

Networks: All games on Fox Sports South

Time: All games at 2:20 p.m. ET

Radio: All games on 680 AM/93.7 FM/106.7 FM

Scheduled starting pitchers

Friday: RH Anibal Sanchez (0-0, 2.25 ERA) of the Braves and RH Yu Darvish (0-0, 5.23) of the Cubs (in his Wrigley Field debut with the Cubs).

Saturday: LH Sean Newcomb (1-1, 4.35) of the Braves and LH Jose Quintana (1-1, 4.50) of the Cubs.

Sunday: RH Julio Teheran (0-1, 7.07) of the Braves and RH Tyler Chatwood (0-2, 4.91) of the Cubs.

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