Atlanta Braves (83-57, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (79-61, second in the NL East)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Chris Sale (13-9, 2.06 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 177 strikeouts); Phillies: Cristopher Sanchez (16-4, 2.52 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 202 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Phillies -114, Braves -108; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves on Friday to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia is 38-30 at home and 79-61 overall. The Phillies have hit 165 total home runs to rank seventh in the NL.<\/p>\n
Atlanta is 83-57 overall and 35-33 in road games. The Braves have gone 58-21 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s game is the seventh meeting between these teams this season. The Braves are up 5-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Schwarber has 17 doubles, a triple and 40 home runs for the Phillies. J.T. Realmuto is 10 for 35 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Michael Harris II has 32 doubles, a triple, 24 home runs and 80 RBIs while hitting .295 for the Braves. Drake Baldwin is 15 for 42 with five doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 7-3, .237 batting average, 2.66 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n
Braves: 8-2, .284 batting average, 3.20 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Phillies: Caleb Kilian: 15-Day IL (oblique), Felix Reyes: 60-Day IL (wrist), Tanner Banks: 60-Day IL (forearm), Brad Keller: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Rojas: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adolis Garcia: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n
Braves: Joe Jimenez: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach: 60-Day IL (elbow), Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (knee), Robert Suarez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves (83-57, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (79-61, second in the NL East) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[3418,46,5,7798,39821,919,5143,113,10367,1710,6158,81,661,4,256,144,25,4216,40,5171,80,659,773,185,9681],"class_list":["post-796299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-brad-keller","tag-caleb-kilian","tag-chris-sale","tag-cristopher-sanchez","tag-j-t-realmuto","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-joey-wentz","tag-johan-rojas","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-robert-suarez","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-spencer-strider","tag-sports","tag-tanner-banks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117211968514787512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796299","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=796299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}