Phillies Top Braves in Key NL East Showdown on Tuesday

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00:00a ton of focus on an NL East divisional duel yesterday in a midweek series starting on a

00:06Tuesday night at the bank in Philadelphia where the Philadelphia Phillies entered with the best

00:11record in the National League and that's where the Phillies remain after taking the opening game of

00:16their set against their divisional foe in the Atlanta Braves 2-0 in that opener. DRS you talked

00:23about the importance of this series might sound kind of funny about two months into a season at

00:28the end of May the importance of a divisional series for a Braves team off to a wildly disappointing

00:35start to this season but the reason you called it important is because of the ground that Atlanta

00:40already has to make up not just to contend for an NL East divisional crown but winning games against

00:46tough teams to try to get back above 500 to maybe even be a playoff team after entering this season

00:53with the second best price to win the NL pennant unable to do so yesterday as they were blanked

00:59after six innings of work by Ranger Suarez even after the Phillies lost Bryce Harper who was hit

01:05by a Spencer Strider pitch early in the opening inning. Yeah it was impressive performance for

01:10the Phillies from the standpoint of their starting pitching just continues to be dominant on a day-to-day

01:14basis like we're not talking about a staff that's hey you got a one-two punch and see what you get

01:18every single star that goes out there can shove it five six seven eight innings strikeouts holding

01:25opponent down and the importance of this series where you put Spencer Strider on the man deck all

01:30right we know we're getting good pitching performances out of the Phillies can we still

01:33game number one maybe we can get lucky and beat a Wheeler start which is expected today and then we'll

01:37see what happens in game number three but you must come into Philadelphia and win two of these three

01:42games to sort of start to make a dent in the Philadelphia Phillies you can't come into Philadelphia

01:46and lose ground it looks like after game number one that's going to be the possibility now because

01:51why Zach Wheeler is going to get the start today against a pitcher that he's better than if he holds

01:55those Atlanta bats down then it turns into ten and a half games and already a double digit lead

02:00there's a long way to play in the season June July August and September that's four months but good

02:05luck trying to jump a team when they have a 10 game advantage on you here that's probably not going

02:10to happen and you see the odds shifting towards the Braves winning the division on a day-to-day

02:15basis once we're palpable now starting to get a little bit out of control and the Phillies didn't

02:19even play a good brand of baseball yesterday at the plate only five total hits Bryce Harper gets

02:23hit early in that game and get and it's excused from it Sosa goes oh for three Schwarber goes oh for

02:28three and you still won that game against the ace for the Atlanta Braves because Rangers Suarez

02:32has been nothing short of spectacular over the past month here huge win for the Phillies and they

02:38didn't even bring their a game

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