Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves this afternoon<\/p>\n
Philadelphia has an 80-62 record overall <\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/p>\n
Atlanta Braves (84-58, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (80-62, second in the NL East)<\/p>\n
Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.<\/p>\n
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 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 leads the Phillies with 41 home runs while slugging .520. Edmundo Sosa is 8 for 22 with two home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Michael Harris II has a .291 batting average to lead the Braves, and has 32 doubles, a triple and 24 home runs. Ronald Acuna Jr. 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
PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Tyler Mahle (5-10, 4.25 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 121 strikeouts); Phillies: Aaron Nola (6-10, 4.93 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 157 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
First pitch in Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves this afternoon Philadelphia has an 80-62 record overall PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Atlanta Braves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4844,1422,4662,76286,51282,3618,86,1423,117270,51890,40396,69,71,70,117271,111894,8740,26794,3617,81364,1837,2812,71243],"class_list":["post-280384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-era","tag-game","tag-home","tag-mlb","tag-ninth-b-team-batting-average","tag-nl-east","tag-opponent","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies-host","tag-phillie","tag-phillies","tag-record-overall","tag-season","tag-strikeout","tag-sunday","tag-wgal","tag-whip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280384","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=280384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}