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The Braves make their first west coast trip of the year as they open up a series with Seattle’s strong pitching staff.

The Atlanta Braves make their first west coast trip of the year coming off an exciting 7-2 homestand. Fresh off an exciting extra innings win over the Guardians, the Braves surely had a happy flight to Seattle.

Now the dangerous Atlanta Braves offense will look to overpower perhaps the most impressive pitching staff in baseball. The Mariners have the third lowest team ERA (3.10) and lowest WHIP (1.05) in Major League Baseball.

The Seattle starting rotation has anchored the team with a string of impressive starts. The Mariners have now seen their starter allow two or fewer earned runs while notching at least five strikeouts in each of the last 16 games, which is the longest streak by any team since ER became an official stat in 1913 via OptaSTATS. Maybe a Jarred Kelenic revenge tour is what’s needed to end Seattle’s magical pitching run.

Let’s check out the starting lineups and pitchers for tonight’s game.

Probable starting pitchers
Max Fried (2-0, 4.97 ERA) takes the mound coming off his complete game shutout performance versus the Marlins. It’ll be hard to top his latest performance, but Max will look to shutdown Julio Rodriguez and the M’s offense to continue his own hot streak. Fried’s command was superbly better last time out, so look for him to get ahead in the count early and often.

Bryce Miller (3-2, 2.22 ERA) is one of the many young studs in Seattle’s rotation. He is coming off a solid rookie campaign, and his first five starts in his sophmore season have yielded good results. Miller pitches off his big fastball that averages 95 mph. After that, Miller offers a splitter and sinker, both of which he throws around 20% of the time.

SEATTLE (AP) — Jarred Kelenic walked into the visitors’ dugout with a smile on his face, ready to talk about his departure from Seattle and how he’s finding comfort with his new situation in Atlanta.

“It feels like just yesterday I was sitting over there crying in front of you guys and talking about when I broke my foot. I feel like ever since then I’ve grown so much just as a person and as a player — really for the better,” Kelenic said Monday as the Braves opened a three-game series against the Mariners.

Kelenic was once deemed a future cornerstone for the Mariners, but could never match the expectations placed on him early in his career. He struggled at the plate, struggled dealing with failure and had a memorable emotional outburst last season that resulted in breaking his foot when he kicked a water cooler.

In 252 games with Seattle, Kelenic hit .204 with 32 homers and 109 RBIs. He was a standout defender, mostly in left field, but his struggles at the plate dominated the narrative about his stint with the Mariners.

The offseason saw Kelenic get traded to the Braves in a package that included pitcher Marco Gonzales as the Mariners sought to shed salary. It was a disappointing conclusion to his time in Seattle but also a fresh start.

“I tried to look at it as a new beginning and a new opportunity — no different than when I first got called up here,” he said.

Kelenic was in the starting lineup, playing left field and batting ninth in his return to Seattle. He entered the series having appeared in 21 of 26 games for Atlanta, getting almost all his playing time against right-handed pitchers, and was batting .305 while hitting mostly at the bottom of the order.

It’s a little different and less pressure than his time in Seattle, for which he was often in the middle of the lineup.

“My mentality when I’m in the box is just trying to get on base, especially hitting ninth (and) you’ve got (Ronald Acuna Jr.) hitting behind me,” Kelenic said.

While returning to Seattle brought up reminders, Kelenic said he’s not dwelling on the struggles he endured during his time with the Mariners.

“For me, I feel like a lot of the negative things that happened, I really learned from and they turned out to be really positive things in my life,” Kelenic said. “So I wouldn’t say that there’s anything that I regret. There’s things I would do different, obviously, looking back on it.”