The Philadelphia Phillies face the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in Game 1 of the NLDS.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Dodgers (93-69, first in the NL West during the regular season) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (96-66, first in the NL East during the regular season)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Saturday, 4 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani (1-1, 2.87 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 62 strikeouts); Phillies: Cristopher Sanchez (13-5, 2.50 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 212 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Phillies -129, Dodgers +109<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies square off against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in Game 1 of the NLDS.<\/p>\n Philadelphia has a 55-26 record in home games and a 96-66 record overall. Phillies hitters are batting a collective .258, the second-best team batting average in MLB play.<\/p>\n Los Angeles is 93-69 overall and 41-40 in road games. The Dodgers have gone 53-22 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n The matchup Saturday is the seventh time these teams meet this season. The Phillies hold a 4-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Schwarber leads the Phillies with 81 extra base hits (23 doubles, two triples and 56 home runs). Edmundo Sosa is 5 for 16 with four home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Ohtani has 25 doubles, nine triples and 55 home runs while hitting .282 for the Dodgers. Teoscar Hernandez is 11 for 39 with two doubles, a triple and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 5-5, .230 batting average, 3.00 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n Dodgers: 8-2, .262 batting average, 2.86 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Phillies: Ranger Suarez: day-to-day (groin), Max Kepler: day-to-day (illness), Jose Alvarado: 15-Day IL (forearm), Daniel Robert: 60-Day IL (forearm), Zack Wheeler: 60-Day IL (blood clot), Jordan Romano: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/p>\n Dodgers: Nick Frasso: 60-Day IL (undisclosed), Kirby Yates: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Michael Kopech: 15-Day IL (knee), Brock Stewart: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Gonsolin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Evan Phillips: 60-Day IL (forearm), Kyle Hurt: 60-Day IL (elbow), Michael Grove: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder), River Ryan: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Stone: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies face the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in Game 1 of the NLDS. Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-184587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}