The competition between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies continues to smolder. The Braves may still be on top of the NL East by a healthy margin (+3.5 games heading into their Sunday night contest), but with 20 games to go, the Phillies could still very well overtake them for the division title — especially […]
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PHILADELPHIA — Locked in a battle with a former National League MVP, rookie reliever Alex McFarlane reached back and fired seven straight fastballs. With the Phillies up three in a crucial matchup against the National Least East-leading Braves, McFarlane got the ball for the top of the eighth. He put two runners on base with […]
Philly took exception to Acuña Jr.'s home run celebration. Acuña Jr. showed them exactly what he thought of that hypocrisy.
PHILADELPHIA — It was so much more than blowing a three-run lead in the final two innings of the game […]
Sunday’s loss to the Braves has got to be one of worst losses of the season, if not the worst. Heading into the eighth inning up 4-1, the Phillies squandered a golden opportunity for a big divisional win, ultimately falling to their NL East rival Braves, 5-4. The Phillies are currently five games behind the […]
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The Atlanta Braves were able to end their series against the Philadelphia Phillies with a win, and they got a good game from pitcher Tyler Mahle. It was exactly what the Braves were looking for from him, and with the playoffs not too far away, they may have found their No. 2 starter behind Chris […]
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Atlanta's leader delivered when it mattered most, and brought his team one step closer to an NL East title.
The Phillies cannot get the eighth inning right. They’ve tried several pitchers as the team’s primary setup man this season, and all of them have proven unable to do the job consistently. On Sunday, they gave rookie Alex McFarlane a shot at the role. He also did not succeed. McFarlane gave up a game-tying three […]
Just when hope was fading and the Braves were staring down a second straight loss to the Phillies which would have dropped their NL East lead to three games, La Bestia showed up in a major way. Ronald Acuña Jr.’s three-run homer in the eighth inning erased a 4-1 deficit. Austin Riley’s RBI triple in […]
The Atlanta Braves were down for most of Sunday’s contest against the Philadelphia Phillies. However, Ronald Acuna Jr. came to the rescue with some late-game heroics after blasting a game-tying three-run home run. After going yard, the 28-year-old outfielder trolled Phillies fans by watching his ball go over the fence before finally rounding the bases. […]
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Through two games of this Braves-Phillies series, we’re exactly back where we started. After one win apiece, the Braves’ NL East lead remains four games. Atlanta can push that back to five or the Phillies can reduce it to three during Sunday afternoon’s 1:10 p.m. ET matchup at Citizens Bank Park, which will be a […]
The Philadelphia Phillies know that they’re in the middle of a good opportunity with just a few weeks remaining in the regular season. They’re in second place in the NL East, and they’re right behind the Atlanta Braves for the No. 1 seed. This is their chance to make up some ground on the Braves, […]
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The Phillies and Braves will square off on Sunday afternoon in the third game of their four-game series. The teams split the first two with the Braves winning on Friday and the Phillies rebounding to take the second game. Aaron Nola will start for the Phillies. The veteran righty has been very good lately, going […]
Mauricio Dubón’s versatile positional weekend in Philadelphia continues with Sunday afternoon’s third game of a four-game set between the Braves and Phillies. After starting in center field Friday and left on Saturday, Dubón will play shortstop and hit fifth for this 1:10 p.m. ET game on NBC. That’s one of only a small handful of […]
Major League Baseball should want to see Ronald Acuña Jr. and the Atlanta Braves in the 2026 World Series after his latest mammoth home run.
Through two games, there hasn’t been much drama to this very important series between the Braves and Phillies in Philadelphia. Atlanta jumped ahead early and never gave up its lead in Friday’s opener, and Philadelphia responded with a wire-to-wire win in Saturday’s second game. We’ll see if Sunday’s third matchup (1:10 p.m. ET on NBC) […]
Saturday saw the teams in the Atlanta Braves farm system split their games. It was also the second to last game of the season for both A-ball affiliates in Augusta and Rome, ahead of Sunday’s season finale. Connor Essenburg reached base five times, including a pair of extra base hits, while Carter Beck and Manuel […]
PHILADELPHIA — If Friday was the microcosm of everything that can go wrong for the Phillies in a potential playoff […]
The Braves bought themselves some margin for error in avoiding certain catastrophic outcomes by winning Friday’s opener of this four-game Philly series and the first of seven games against the division rivals in the next 10 for Atlanta. That said, they could still easily get themselves into trouble in the standings through these games against […]
PHILADELPHIA — As Ronald Acuña Jr. rounded second, he paused. With third base many many feet away, Acuña swayed his feet back and forth. As Acuña danced in the middle of the diamond, the Citizens Bank Park crowd serenaded him with angry boos. He did whatever he wanted after absolutely crushing a pitch to the […]
The Atlanta Braves gave a game back to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night, but Ronald Acuna Jr. still achieved a remarkable of feat of strength in Citizens Bank Park. Three days after smashing the 200th home run of his MLB career, the 2023 National League MVP and founder of the 40-70 club put his […]
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PHILADELPHIA — The Atlanta Braves are arguably the biggest rivals of the Phillies, and there’s no one who gets the […]
Every baseball fan is familiar with the scam known as the shell game— after all, it’s present, in more innocuous form, in the cap shuffle ubiquitous to scoreboards. Tonight Zack Wheeler offered the visiting Braves a shell game, tempting them with three baserunners through three at-bats… but when the Braves selected their shell, there weren’t […]
The Philadelphia Phillies are running out of time to catch the Atlanta Braves. These four players could make or break their pursuit of the NL East crown.
After winning the battle of the aces on Friday to kick off this huge division rival series, the Braves had a Martin Perez vs Zack Wheeler matchup to contend with tonight. Things started inauspiciously for Atlanta, as two singles and a walk from their first three batters of the game turned into zero runs in […]