{"id":280212,"date":"2026-09-06T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280212\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:10:08","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-host-the-atlanta-braves-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280212\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (84-58, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (80-62, second in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (5-10, 4.25 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 121 strikeouts); Phillies: Aaron Nola<\/a> (6-10, 4.93 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 157 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Phillies -111, Braves -111; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies square off against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has an 80-62 record overall and a 39-31 record at home. The Phillies have gone 38-12 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 36-34 record in road games and an 84-58 record overall. The Braves have the ninth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .248.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Sunday for the ninth time this season. The Braves lead the season series 6-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Schwarber<\/a> leads the Phillies with 41 home runs while slugging .520. Edmundo Sosa<\/a> is 8 for 22 with two home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Harris II<\/a> has a .291 batting average to lead the Braves, and has 32 doubles, a triple and 24 home runs. Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> is 16 for 40 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 7-3, .240 batting average, 2.02 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 7-3, .265 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Phillies: Caleb Kilian: 15-Day IL (oblique), Felix Reyes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Tanner Banks<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Brad Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Rojas: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adolis Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n

Braves: Joe Jimenez: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (knee), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (84-58, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (80-62, second in the NL East) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51887,33460,1422,34160,14741,56878,88036,4607,11199,76621,69,71,70,1425,76638,76613,117201,14740,117200],"class_list":["post-280212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-aaron-nola","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-brad-keller","tag-edmundo-sosa","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-reyes","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-tanner-banks","tag-tyler-mahle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}