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Cleveland Guardians, Atlanta Braves starting lineups for Aug. 15, 2025: Game 121
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Daniel Schneemann and the Guardians take on the Braves at Progressive Field.
Here are the starting lineups for Friday’s game between the Guardians and Atlanta.
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Where’s Waldrep? Starting for the Braves in Cleveland on Friday night
The Braves are, as everyone is aware at this point, not having a very Braves-esque season. They’re playing out the string, and while they did their best to dent the playoff hopes of the Reds, Marlins, and Mets recently, that sort of “particularly nasty speed bump” status is what they’ve been relegated to at this point.
The Guardians, though, are 63-57, 6.5 games back in the AL Central, but just a half-game behind the Yankees for a playoff spot. Their playoff odds of roughly 1-in-3 are pretty similar to where they started the season (1-in-4), and pretty similar for where the team has been overall for the last while: from 2020-2025, they’ve basically been in the fringy contender (10-50 percent playoff odds) at the beginning of each season. After three straight playoff appearances and 90+-win seasons from 2016-2018, they somehow missed the playoffs with 93 wins in 2019, ushering in their current streak of alternating seasons in which they do and do not make the postseason. They made the postseason with a 92-win division crown last year, and are looking to break the pattern this year, though they’ve got some work to do there.
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Braves at Guardians Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, stats for August 15
It's Friday, August 15 and the Braves (53-68) are in Cleveland to take on the Guardians (63-57). Hurston Waldrep is slated to take the mound for Atlanta against Joey Cantillo for Cleveland.
The Braves are streaking with six wins over the last eight games and back-to-back series victories, while the Guardians are 7-2 in the last nine games and five consecutive series wins if you go back further.
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