Were the regular season to end today, the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves would face off in a best-of-three Wild Card series at Truist Park in Atlanta. As such, this weekend’s series serves a potential preview of sorts for the Phillies’ first playoff appearance in over a decade.
A mid-September series lacks the stakes of postseason baseball, and, of course, the lineups and pitching matchups do not look exactly how they would in October. Even so, if Philadelphia could pull off a series win, it would give them an extra boost of momentum going forward.
Over the first seven innings, it looked like the Phillies might come out victorious in game one.