ATLANTA -- Before the Braves took an 8-0 loss to the Marlins on Tuesday night at Truist Park, manager Brian Snitker was asked how frequently he has worried about what else might go wrong with his pitching staff.

“Every day,” Snitker said. “I go to bed like that every night and wake up like that every day. There’s always something going on. You never know.”

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Snitker said this a few hours before his concerns were extended when Kyle Wright allowed five runs over four innings against the Marlins, who have won the first two games of this three-game set. The results unfortunately were nothing new for Wright or the Braves.

Wright has completed fewer than five innings in seven of nine career starts. The Braves have received four innings or fewer from their starting pitcher in 23 of 42 (54.8 percent) games this season.

Thanks to what Max Fried has done since staff ace Mike Soroka sustained a season-ending injury (torn right Achilles) on Aug. 3, the Braves have stayed atop the National League East standings.

But Fried will be on the injured list through at least Sept. 16, and the division race has tightened. Both the Marlins and Phillies are within 2.5 games of first place.

“We’ll just keep trying to piece this thing together and win as many games these last few weeks as we can,” Snitker said before his team lost for the fourth time in its past five games.

There was some hope Wright would return to the big league level and be better than he had been while posting a 7.20 ERA over four starts. The 24-year-old right-hander impressed during a scoreless first inning before giving up solo homers to Matt Joyce and Jorge Alfaro over the next two.

Wright then issued two walks and allowed Garrett Cooper’s two-run homer before recording his first out in the three-run fourth. The young hurler’s control was better than it was when he issued six walks over just three innings in Miami on Aug. 14 in his last outing before being optioned. But he still hasn’t lived up to the expectations set when he was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2017 MLB Draft.

“The kid’s stuff is too good for him to not be a factor here,” Snitker said. “He should be a winning pitcher in the Major Leagues. You look at that stuff and we see it in spurts. The weapons are there. How long it takes to surface here, I don’t know.”

Five days from now, Wright will likely get another chance to prove himself. In between, the Braves will use Tommy Milone, Josh Tomlin, Ian Anderson and likely Robbie Erlin as starters. Wright is the only member of this makeshift group who was in the rotation at the start of the season. He and Tomlin are the only members who were on Atlanta’s Opening Day roster.

At some point next week, this rotation could be enriched by the return of Fried and the activation of Cole Hamels, who hasn’t faced an opponent since Sept. 28, 2019. Any contributions made by Hamels and possibly even Mike Foltynewicz, who has spent the past six weeks demoted to the team’s alternate training site, could prove quite valuable.

But so too could the sudden emergence of Wright.

Wright’s slider, which had looked so impressive over the past couple of seasons, hasn’t been nearly as effective this year. But the two-seamer he focused on over the past few weeks seems to have the potential to become a weapon.

At this point of the season, the Braves don’t have time to wait for development. But given the state of their rotation, they would likely immediately benefit from any level of progress.

“I know I’m close,” Wright said. “I just have to get over that little hump. From there, I’ll be able to take off.”