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PHILADELPHIA —Phillies<\/a> center fielder Harrison Bader<\/a> was not in the starting lineup for Game 2 of the NL Division Series because of a groin injury.<\/p>\n Bader was injured running the bases in the Phillies’ Game 1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Manager Rob Thomson said imaging showed no major or tear or strain in Bader’s groin and there was a possibility he could pinch hit Monday night.<\/p>\n With Bader sidelined, the Phillies started Brandon Marsh<\/a> in center field and right-handed hitters Otto Kemp<\/a> in left field and Nick Castellanos<\/a> in right against Dodgers lefty Blake Snell<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bader hit .277 with 17 home runs and 54 RBIs this season split between Minnesota and the Phillies. He secured the starting center field spot after he was acquired in a trade-deadline deal.<\/p>\n Also against the two-time Cy Young Award Winner Snell, the Phillies started right-handed hitter Edmundo Sosa<\/a> at second base instead of Bryson Stott<\/a>. Sosa hit three home runs in a game last month against Miami.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, October 6, 2025 6:48PM PHILADELPHIA —Phillies center fielder Harrison Bader was not in the starting lineup for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[118114,118113,352,2323,363,3,480,99],"class_list":["post-205513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-118114","tag-bader-harrison","tag-espn","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}