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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (82-66, second in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (87-61, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: TBD; Braves: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (5-10, 4.05 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 124 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -118, Phillies -104; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves take a 1-0 lead into the next game of the series against the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is 87-61 overall and 50-26 at home. Braves hitters have a collective .409 slugging percentage to rank sixth in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has an 82-66 record overall and a 41-32 record on the road. The Phillies have a 64-14 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the 12th time these teams square off this season. The Braves have an 8-3 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 71 extra base hits (33 doubles and 38 home runs). Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 13 for 41 with four doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper<\/a> has 29 doubles, three triples and 27 home runs while hitting .271 for the Phillies. Kyle Schwarber<\/a> is 7 for 39 with four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 5-5, .213 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 4-6, .225 batting average, 3.29 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Lane Thomas: 10-Day IL (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 (82-66, second in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (87-61, 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":[3418,46,5,7798,1207,75686,29882,10367,81,19,541,4,144,25,4216,40,80,921,659,9681,91],"class_list":["post-803035","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-bryce-harper","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-tyler-mahle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117257396787185019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803035","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=803035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803035\/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=803035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}