Circle these second-half series on your Phillies calendar

If both teams stay the course, the Phillies and Braves will have a decisive September battling for the NL East.If Freddie Freeman ruled the world — at least the baseball world — he would gather his Atlanta Braves teammates and their Phillies counterparts, stuff them into a time machine, and speed off to Sept. 20, the night when the surprise National League East contenders are scheduled to play the first of seven games in the season’s final 11 days.

“It’s starting to build up to the point where those last games of the season when we’re going to be playing against [the Phillies], it could mean a whole heck of a lot,” said Freeman, the Braves’ all-star first baseman. “Those last 10 games could…