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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (88-74, second in the NL East during the regular season) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (94-68, first in the NL East during the regular season)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Wednesday, 2 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Cristopher Sanchez (18-7, 2.91 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 231 strikeouts); Braves: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (7-10, 3.99 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 137 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Phillies -119, Braves -102; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves square off against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday in Game 2 of the NL Wild Card Series. The Braves hold a 1-0 lead in the series and can advance to the NLDS with a victory.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 94-68 record overall and a 52-29 record in home games. The Braves are 50-10 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has a 45-36 record on the road and an 88-74 record overall. The Phillies rank ninth in the NL with 182 total home runs, averaging 1.1 per game.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the 15th meeting between these teams this season. The Braves hold a 10-4 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 41 home runs while slugging .502. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 9 for 38 with three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper<\/a> has 32 doubles, three triples and 29 home runs while hitting .269 for the Phillies. Edmundo Sosa<\/a> is 6 for 16 with three doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .230 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 3-7, .212 batting average, 5.48 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Martin Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Lane Thomas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (right shoulder), Bryce Elder: 15-Day IL (knee), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Phillies: Jonathan Bowlan<\/a>: day-to-day (groin), Caleb Kilian: 60-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 (88-74, second in the NL East during the regular season) vs. Atlanta Braves (94-68, first in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[3418,46,5,7798,1207,6924,75686,29882,38015,10367,13041,3540,19,370,541,4,144,25,4216,40,921,659,91],"class_list":["post-817925","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-edmundo-sosa","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-reyes","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jonathan-bowlan","tag-lane-thomas","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tyler-mahle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117359235796349409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817925","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=817925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817925\/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=817925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}