Monday’s game: Braves vs. Padres
Where: Turner Field
When: 7:10 p.m.
TV/Radio: SPSO/680, 93.7, 106.7
Probable starting pitchers: Braves RH Shelby Miller (5-2, 1.89 ERA) vs. RH Ian Kennedy (3-5, 6.60)
What's new: The Braves have scored five or more runs in seven consecutive games before running into Gerrit Cole of the Pirates on Sunday and getting shut out in a 3-0 loss. The Braves managed just six hits in their fifth shutout loss and first since May 28 when they were shut out for the third time in seven games. Three of the Braves' hits came off the bat of Cameron Maybin, who has raised his season average to .296. Maybin is hitting 17-for-41 (.415) with seven multi-hit games over his past nine games to go along one home run and eight RBIs. Kelly Johnson is set to begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment today in Triple-A Gwinnett. He is coming back from a May 13 oblique strain.
— Carroll Rogers Walton
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