The longest road trip on the Braves’ 2026 schedule is here.

The team kicks off May with its only three-city road trip of the season, a nine-game jaunt which carries through next weekend.

Unfortunately for us people who appreciate a healthy night’s rest, this trip is back on the West Coast, starting Friday night in Denver against the Colorado Rockies.

But thankfully, there’s only one of those left over the final 4.5 months of the season (at the Giants and Padres in late June) after this one.

So prep your coffee pots for an extra shift and get ready for some elevation shenanigans the next few days at Coors Field.

The Braves will turn to Grant Holmes (2-1, 3.62 ERA) to open the trip. The right-hander, who is coming off back-to-back starts against the Phillies, has been a bit of a one-off-inning guy of late. He allowed two runs in the third and one in the fifth last Saturday against Philadelphia. In each of his prior three starts against the Phillies, Marlins and Angels, the two, three and two runs he allowed, respectively, each came in a single inning.

Holmes has been living a bit dangerously, with 20 hits allowed and 21 strikeouts to 12 walks in 27 1/3 innings. But to date, he hasn’t been burned badly, going six innings in three of his last five starts and not allowing more than three runs in any of his first six starts.

He’ll be facing off against Rockies left-hander Jose Quintana (1-2, 4.91), who the Braves have some familiarity with from his 2023-24 tenure as a Met. It’s still early in the season but Quintana’s Colorado tenure has not gotten off to the best start. He spent time on the injured list with a right hamstring strain after making his first start and his 4.91 ERA through four starts is his worst since 2021 and the second-worst of his 15-year major league career.

He also has more walks (11) than strikeouts (nine).

However, he may have found something last time out, working a season-long 5 1/3 innings and allowing one run on two hits, striking out five and walking two in a 3-1 win at the New York Mets on Sunday.

This will be just his second home start of the season, but the first didn’t go very well. He allowed six runs (four earned) on eight hits over five innings against the Dodgers on April 20. That start also saw him surrender two of the four homers he’s given up through four starts, something Atlanta will look to exploit as the team which has hit the third-most homers in the majors this season (43) in the launching pad that Coors can be.

Game Info

Game Date/Time: Friday, May 1, 8:40 p.m. EDT

Location: Coors Field, Denver, CO

TV: BravesVision

Streaming: MLB.tv (and Braves.tv if you’re in-market, etc.)

Radio: 680 AM / 93.7 FM The Fan