{"id":1047169,"date":"2026-09-06T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1047169\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:04:23","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-host-the-atlanta-braves-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1047169\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves this afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves this afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has an 80-62 record overall <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">PHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Atlanta Braves (84-58, first in the NL East) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (80-62, second in the NL East)<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Philadelphia Phillies square off against the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">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<p data-node-id=\"4\">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<p data-node-id=\"5\">The teams square off Sunday for the ninth time this season. The Braves lead the season series 6-2.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">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<p data-node-id=\"7\">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<p data-node-id=\"8\">LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 7-3, .240 batting average, 2.02 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Braves: 7-3, .265 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">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<p data-node-id=\"11\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1047170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,5356,1280,591,22900,20645,1910,316,1266,419171,124394,37476,1448,2830,1311,419173,206699,20414,419172,5950,8330,1404,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,51644,316024],"class_list":["post-1047169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","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-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies-host","tag-phillie","tag-phillies","tag-record-overall","tag-season","tag-strikeout","tag-sunday","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wgal","tag-whip"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117224948741105082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}