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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (12-7, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (8-10, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (0-0); Phillies: Taijuan Walker<\/a> (1-2, 7.36 ERA, 1.91 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -116, Phillies -103; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has an 8-10 record overall and a 5-7 record at home. The Phillies are fifth in the NL with 20 total home runs, averaging 1.1 per game.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 12-7 record overall and a 4-3 record on the road. The Braves have a 1-2 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryce Harper<\/a> has five doubles and four home runs for the Phillies. Kyle Schwarber<\/a> is 8 for 34 with a double, three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Drake Baldwin<\/a> has three doubles and five home runs while hitting .321 for the Braves. Matt Olson<\/a> is 11 for 40 with four doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 3-7, .226 batting average, 5.38 ERA, outscored by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 6-4, .294 batting average, 4.25 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Phillies: Zach Pop<\/a>: 15-Day IL (calf), Jonathan Bowlan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Max Lazar<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Zack Wheeler<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Braves: Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (12-7, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (8-10, fourth in the NL East) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,1207,1563,5931,75686,38015,10367,13041,81,19,370,541,14093,4,25,656,659,1544,23295,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-677478","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-braves","13":"tag-bryce-harper","14":"tag-danny-young","15":"tag-drake-baldwin","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-hurston-waldrep","18":"tag-joe-jimenez","19":"tag-jonathan-bowlan","20":"tag-kyle-schwarber","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-martin-perez","23":"tag-matt-olson","24":"tag-max-lazar","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","27":"tag-sean-murphy","28":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","29":"tag-taijuan-walker","30":"tag-zach-pop","31":"tag-zack-wheeler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116419127143746893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677478","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=677478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}