Yesterday when Walt Weiss was willing to give updates on basically every single relevant Braves player making their way back from injury, one of the biggest stories was the fact that the team was expecting Spencer Strider to return to the rotation by the weekend series against the Colorado Rockies.
As it turns out, we now know exactly when Strider will be back on the mound for the Braves. He’ll be getting the ball for Sunday’s series-closer at Coors Field, where hopefully he’ll be pitching to help
the Braves get a series win or even a sweep if all goes really well. Mark Bowman of MLB.com was the first to report the news.
As of right now, the plan is to have Grant Holmes go on Friday, Chris Sale pitch on Saturday and then have Spencer Strider go on Saturday. Walt Weiss has mentioned a few times now that setting the rotation is currently on a series-by-series basis and we now have some information on what Colorado series will look like as far as Atlanta’s starting pitching is concerned.
For Strider, this will be his first start in Colorado since making one of the initial starts of his career at Coors Field back in 2022. He went four innings with just two hits and one walk allowed with five walks but also five strikeouts as well. Strider also has that legendary 16-strikeout game against the Rockies in September 2022 as well. With that being said, there’s a pretty big difference between the 2022 version of Spencer Strider and the 2026 version, so this will certainly be an intriguing test to see how Strider can adjust in what’ll be a pretty solid test in his first start back. We’ll see what happens.
