The first meeting between the Phillies and the Braves had a playoff atmosphere. Both teams were going with their best pitchers on the mound, so a duel was on tap. It wasn’t supposed to be a night filled with offensive fireworks, but the struggles of the Phillies was almost pitiful to watch.
It didn’t start too poorly!
Odubel Herrera and Jean Segura started the game off with back-to-back singles to get men on with no one out and the MVP frontrunner in Bryce Harper striding to the plate. Even against Morton, it felt like this was going to end in a bad way for Atlanta.