WATCH: A fielders choice from Travis d'Arnaud tied the game at a run a piece
The Braves tied the game at one run a piece after Travis d'Arnaud showed off his wheels, beating out a would-be double play to score Austin Riley and get the Braves on the board.
Spencer Strider has been dominant through six innings, striking out nine.
This has the makings of a great ball game with two aces battling.
Let's take a look at the way the Braves got their first run of the game, tying the game at one run apiece.
Pitching Matchup for the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins on Monday, June 26th
Atlanta's sending Spencer Strider to the mound. Back to his usual dominating self, thanks to his wife, Strider is 8-2 with a 3.93 ERA in his fifteen starts, striking out a MLB-leading 136 batters (14.5 K/9) in his eighty-four and two-thirds innings. He's never faced Minnesota, and only two Twins batters - 3B Kyle Farmer (0-1) and C Christian Vasquez (0-2) have seen Strider.
Minnesota's countering with RHP Sonny Gray. One of the breakout pitchers in MLB this season, Gray is 4-1 with a 2.56 ERA in his fifteen starts, striking out eighty-four batters in his eighty-one innings of work. He leads the National League in FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching - which measures a pitcher's effectiveness at the hitter's outcomes he solely controls, namely homeruns, walks, hit-by-pitches, and strikeouts) at 2.70 and all of baseball in home run rate, with only 0.2 homers allowed per nine innings. Several Braves have seen him plenty in their career, but no one's taken him deep or had much sustained success off of him.
How to Watch the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins on Monday, June 26th
Tonight's first pitch is scheduled for 7:20 PM ET. The game broadcast, with Voice of the Braves Brandon Gaudin, is available inside Braves Country on Bally Sports South and is available on MLB.TV outside of the broadcast area. The radio call, with Ben Ingram, is available locally on 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan or outside the Atlanta market on the Atlanta Braves Radio Network or MLB.com.
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