Overview

• Seattle enters at 73-67 after dropping three straight and five of six on a nine-game trip, now four games behind Houston in the AL West and 1.5 games up on Texas for the final wild-card spot.
• Catcher Cal Raleigh leads MLB with 51 home runs and ranks third with 109 RBIs, powering a lineup that sits second in the AL with 200 homers.
• The pitching matchup features Mariners right-hander Logan Gilbert against Braves left-hander Chris Sale, the reigning NL Cy Young winner.
• Sale makes his second start since returning from a fractured left rib cage after allowing one run with nine strikeouts over six innings in Philadelphia last weekend.
• Atlanta expects recent waiver claim Ha-Seong Kim to be its everyday shortstop; the Braves are 63-77 overall with a 33-33 mark at home and meet Seattle for the first time this season.