The Atlanta Braves will face the Phillies a lot over the first 2 months of the year. Usually, these encounters are spread out better, but after this season opener, the Phillies are back to Atlanta again on April 16-18 before the Braves finally go north to see them at the end of the month.
Even after that, Atlanta heads back to Citizens Bank Park for a series from May 21-23. So that’s a total of 12 meetings over the first 50 games of the year.
Hopefully by then, new manager Gabe Kapler will have figured out exactly how to run his ballclub… and maybe that realize that Spring Training is over.