{"id":699944,"date":"2026-05-15T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:18:22","slug":"gamethread-5-15-phillies-at-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699944\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamethread 5\/15: Phillies at Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phillies;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Phillies&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a> \u2013 winners of their last five series \u2013 will head to Pittsburgh to start a three-game series with the Pirates on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Phillies\u2019 starting pitcher for the opener will be <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/9882\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aaron Nola;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Aaron Nola&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Nola<\/a>. Nola is off to a rough start to the season at 2-3 with a 5.14 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He\u2019ll be opposed by righthander Braxton Ashcroft. In his second big league season, Ashcraft is 2-2 with a 2.77 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Game time is 6:40 PM and will be televised locally on NBCSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies \u2013 winners of their last five series \u2013 will head to Pittsburgh to start a three-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[1206,5,15154,88158,4,144,25,4216,40,776,64,67,811],"class_list":["post-699944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-aaron-nola","tag-baseball","tag-braxton-ashcraft","tag-braxton-ashcroft","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-starting-pitcher"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116580915821728513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699944","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=699944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}