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Open Thread 5/20: Braves at Rays

Tim Hudson (11 starts, 7-1, 2.71 ERA vs. TB) vs. David Price (10 starts, 5-4, 4.50 ERA vs. NL)

  1. Michael Bourn - CF
  2. Martin Prado - LF
  3. Freddie Freeman - 1B
  4. Dan Uggla - 2B
  5. Jason Heyward - RF
  6. Matt Diaz - DH
  7. Juan Francisco - 3B
  8. David Ross - C
  9. Jack Wilson - SS

Price has won all three home starts this year with a 1.16 ERA; opponents are hitting just .160 against him at home this year. Overall, he has a 2.72 home ERA in 50 games. Chipper Jones won't be in the lineup again until the Cincinnati series. Hudson last faced the Rays in 2010, beating them 3-1; he is 2-1 with a 2.96 ERA in four starts at Tropicana Field, but hasn't pitched there since 2004. No current Braves hitter has more than 6 PA vs. Price (Uggla 0-4, 2 BB).

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