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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (13-7, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (8-11, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (3-1, 3.27 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Phillies: Cristopher Sanchez (2-1, 2.01 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Phillies -129, Braves +109; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves are looking to continue a three-game win streak with a victory against the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has an 8-11 record overall and a 5-8 record in home games. The Phillies have the 10th-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .374.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 13-7 record overall and a 5-3 record in road games. The Braves have gone 5-2 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Schwarber<\/a> leads the Phillies with six home runs while slugging .522. Bryce Harper<\/a> is 15 for 34 with four doubles, a triple, two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Drake Baldwin<\/a> has three doubles and five home runs for the Braves. Matt Olson<\/a> is 12 for 39 with four doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 3-7, .227 batting average, 5.83 ERA, outscored by 28 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 7-3, .299 batting average, 3.74 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n

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

Braves: Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee), Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), 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)<\/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 (13-7, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (8-11, 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":[2397],"tags":[46,5,1207,919,1563,5931,75686,38015,10367,13041,81,19,541,14093,4,144,25,4216,40,656,659,23295],"class_list":{"0":"post-678270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bryce-harper","11":"tag-chris-sale","12":"tag-danny-young","13":"tag-drake-baldwin","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-hurston-waldrep","16":"tag-joe-jimenez","17":"tag-jonathan-bowlan","18":"tag-kyle-schwarber","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-matt-olson","21":"tag-max-lazar","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-philadelphia","24":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","25":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","26":"tag-phillies","27":"tag-sean-murphy","28":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","29":"tag-zach-pop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116425107936264540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678270","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=678270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678270\/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=678270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}