{"id":625242,"date":"2026-03-15T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/625242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:20:12","slug":"braves-vs-phillies-spring-training-game-thread-3-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/625242\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves vs Phillies Spring Training Game Thread: 3\/15\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">JR Ritchie was slated to start today\u2019s game, but instead, Jose Suarez gets the start, with Ritchie set to get some work later in the game. Taijuan Walker will take the mound for Philly, coming off of a rough two seasons and looking to bounce back in a contract year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Braves are running out the quad-A lineup, while the Phillies are starting a number of their regulars. You can see the lineups below.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"511\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/05c10e12b8532ff190158b6fb4dcf85d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You can watch today\u2019s game on MLB Network or MLBTV at 1:05 PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Join us and discuss today\u2019s game in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>Build Your Winning Bracket!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">SB Nation\u2019s CBB expert Mike Rutherford and resident bracketologist Chris Dobbertean will answer all your questions this week and help guide you to bracket glory! Drop in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/march-madness\/feed?itm_medium=march_madness_feed&amp;itm_source=batterypower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SB Nation\u2019s March Madness Feed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;SB Nation\u2019s March Madness Feed&quot;}\" class=\"link \">SB Nation\u2019s March Madness Feed<\/a>\u00a0all week long and we\u2019ll have both on hand! (All times ET)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mon-Wed 5-8pm: Chris Dobbertean<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thursday 9am-12pm: Chris Dobbertean and Mike Rutherford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JR Ritchie was slated to start today\u2019s game, but instead, Jose Suarez gets the start, with Ritchie set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,55122,48,192,610,9636,157,80458,4,42242,40,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-625242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-baseball-cap","13":"tag-boston-red-sox","14":"tag-braves","15":"tag-fl","16":"tag-icon-sportswire","17":"tag-jose-suarez","18":"tag-mike-rutherford","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-north-port","21":"tag-phillies","22":"tag-taijuan-walker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116234351300420574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}