New York Mets vs Atlanta Braves Prediction, Odds and Picks for Wednesday, 06/18/25

The New York Mets and Atlanta Braves will contest the middle leg of a 3-game series when they meet again in Atlanta on Wednesday night. Atlanta will have to beat New York a million times over to get back in the National League East race (currently 12 games out of first place and 10 behind Philadelphia), but it has to start somewhere — and it may have started in the series opener. The Braves trailed 4-1 with 2 outs in the bottom of the eighth inning but stormed back to prevail 5-4 in 10. They have now won 4 of their last 5 games while sending the Mets to a season-long 4-game skid.

New York will be hard pressed to turn the tide on Wednesday given that Chris Sale is toeing the rubber for the home team. Sale is sporting a 2.79 ERA, but not even that number tells the story of just how good the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner is right now. He has surrendered just 4 runs in 33.0 innings across his last 5 starts and has struck out 21 batters in his last 2. Going for the Mets is Paul Blackburn, who comes in with a 6.75 ERA and 1.71 WHIP through 9.1 innings across 3 appearances. There is no reason to think he will handle a red-hot Ronald Acuna Jr. and company. I like the Braves a lot, but I like them even more in the first 5 innings to eliminate a bad bullpen that used both Dylan Lee and Raisel Iglesias in high-leverage situations on Tuesday night.

Mets vs Braves prediction: Atlanta F5 -0.5 (-140) available at time of publishing. Playable to -150.

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