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Game Date:
09/23/2017
7:10pm EST
Lines:
Philadelphia +1.5
Atlanta -1.5
Total:
Over
9.5 (+105)
Under 9.5 (-125)
Community Picks: Philadelphia Phillies 0% vs Atlanta Braves 0%
Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves Thread
Team Tweets & News Articles
ATLANTA A few hours before Friday night's game against the Atlanta Braves, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin had some words of praise for his starting pitcher, Ben Lively. "He's just very competitive," Mackanin said of the 25-year-old right-hander. The Braves' first six hitters of the game all reached base on hits (three singles, two doubles and a homer) and five of them scored. Continue to Article
September 23, 2017 12:26:am EST
Brian Snitker is on a one-year contract and doesn't know if he will return next year as manager of the Atlanta Braves. The 61-year-old Snitker, in his 41st season with the organization, hopes the front office brings him back despite his 127-148 record since replacing Fredi Gonzalez last year. The Braves hold an option for a second year, but Snitker has yet to hear their plans for 2018. Continue to Article
September 22, 2017 9:49:pm EST
In the end, things reverted to form: The Dodgers won and the Phillies lost. The Dodgers are headed to the playoffs, the Phillies to who-knows-where. Los Angeles scored twice in the seventh inning Thursday afternoon to beat the Phils, 5-4, and salvage the finale of a four-game series (see observations). The Dodgers, the majors’ best team at 97-56, lowered their magic number to one for clinching a fifth straight NL West championship. The Phils, baseball’s second-worst team at 61-92, were left with a lovely parting gift: hope. “I think it’s a good lesson,” J.P. Crawford, the rookie shortstop-turned-third baseman, said of the series as a whole. “It showed us, or showed me, we can compete with the Continue to Article
September 22, 2017 3:44:pm EST
Freddie Freeman stopped taking batting practice several weeks ago to save some of the remaining strength in his left wrist that was broken by a pitch in mid-May, but don't think about giving the Atlanta Braves first baseman any other kind of rest. "I'm going to go out there every day," said Freeman of his goal to not miss any of his team's remaining 11 games. As the Braves conclude their final homestand of the first season at SunTrust Park with a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies beginning Friday night, Atlanta fans can only dream about what could have been if Freeman hadn't missed nearly eight weeks. Continue to Article
September 22, 2017 3:01:am EST
Gio Gonzalez gave up seven hits and five earned runs against the Atlanta Braves in an 8-0 loss last week in Washington, D.C. that began with the Nationals’ lefty striking out the first six batters he retired around two singles (one an RBI hit) and a double before things went pear-shaped in the top of the third. “Just one of those games you can’t really understand what happened, just pick up what you can and go from there.” - Gio Gonzalez on start vs ATL in D.C. A walk, single, and three-run HR by Freddie Freeman put the visiting Braves up 4-0, and two doubles in the top of the fourth made it five runs total against the southpaw. “It was weird to me,” Gonzalez explained after that game, “you get the strikeouts then all of a sudden the hits came in, it was one of those games you just take it for what it was, sweep it under the rug, get ready for tomorrow. Continue to Article
September 21, 2017 9:43:am EST
