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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (9-18, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (19-9, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Aaron Nola<\/a> (1-2, 5.06 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 29 strikeouts); Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (4-1, 2.79 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 29 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -167, Phillies +141; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies meet on Sunday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 19-9 record overall and a 9-5 record in home games. The Braves have a 16-1 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is 4-8 on the road and 9-18 overall. The Phillies are 6-1 in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the sixth time this season. The Braves lead the season series 4-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with seven home runs while slugging .595. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 16 for 32 with four home runs and 13 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper<\/a> has six home runs, 14 walks and 18 RBIs while hitting .270 for the Phillies. Brandon Marsh<\/a> is 13 for 38 with a double, two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 8-2, .272 batting average, 3.80 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 1-9, .207 batting average, 5.89 ERA, outscored by 34 runs<\/p>\n

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

Phillies: J.T. Realmuto: 10-Day IL (back), Max Lazar<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Zach Pop<\/a>: 15-Day IL (calf), Jhoan Duran: 15-Day IL (oblique), Jonathan Bowlan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin)<\/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":"Philadelphia Phillies (9-18, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (19-9, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[1206,46,5,6157,1207,919,1563,75686,38015,10367,13041,19,541,14093,661,4,144,25,4216,40,656,659,23295],"class_list":["post-683182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-aaron-nola","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-marsh","tag-bryce-harper","tag-chris-sale","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jonathan-bowlan","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-max-lazar","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-zach-pop"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116470288501261711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683182","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=683182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}