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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (82-65, second in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (86-61, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Friday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Aaron Nola<\/a> (6-10, 4.76 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 162 strikeouts); Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (14-9, 2.10 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 184 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -194, Phillies +156; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves begin a three-game series at home against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has gone 49-26 at home and 86-61 overall. The Braves are seventh in MLB<\/a> play with 183 total home runs, averaging 1.2 per game.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is 41-31 on the road and 82-65 overall. The Phillies have gone 64-14 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the 11th time these teams square off this season. The Braves have a 7-3 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> has 33 doubles, 37 home runs and 81 RBIs for the Braves. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 13 for 40 with three doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Schwarber<\/a> leads the Phillies with 62 extra base hits (17 doubles, a triple and 44 home runs). Trea Turner<\/a> is 9 for 41 with five doubles, two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 4-6, .210 batting average, 3.93 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 5-5, .225 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Lane Thomas: day-to-day (side), Bryce Elder: 15-Day IL (knee), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Phillies: Tanner Banks<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Caleb Kilian: 15-Day IL (oblique), Felix Reyes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Brad Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Rojas: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adolis Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/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 (82-65, second in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (86-61, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[1206,3418,46,5,7798,919,75686,29882,10367,81,19,541,4,144,25,4216,40,80,921,659,9681,1713],"class_list":["post-802187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-aaron-nola","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-brad-keller","tag-chris-sale","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-reyes","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tanner-banks","tag-trea-turner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117251651873820509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802187","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=802187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}