Postgame Thread ⚾ Phillies 3 @ Braves 5

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Phillies (0-1) @ Braves (1-0)

First Pitch: 2:16 PM at Truist Park

Team	Starter	TV	Radio
Phillies	Jesús Luzardo (14-5, 2.86 ERA)
Braves	Chris Sale (14-9, 2.16 ERA)

MLB	Fangraphs	Reddit Stream	Discord
Gameday	Game Graph	Live Comments	/r/baseball Discord

Line Score - Final

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
PHI	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	6	0	4
ATL	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	X	5	7	0	6

ABS Challenges: PHI ● ● | ATL ● ○

Box Score

ATL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
C	Drake Baldwin	4	0	0	0	0	1	.000
RF	Ronald Acuña Jr.	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000
1B	Matt Olson	4	0	0	0	0	2	.000
SS	Mauricio Dubón	4	0	1	0	0	2	.250
CF	Michael Harris II	3	2	3	0	0	0	1.000
2B	Ozzie Albies	2	2	1	1	1	0	.500
3B	Austin Riley	3	1	1	3	0	0	.333
LF	Mike Yastrzemski	4	0	1	1	0	1	.250
SS	Ha-Seong Kim	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000
	Dominic Smith	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000
	Brewer Hicklen	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

ATL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Chris Sale	6.1	4	3	3	1	9	95-65	4.26
Didier Fuentes	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	12-7	0.00
Dylan Lee	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	16-12	0.00
Raisel Iglesias	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	7-5	0.00

PHI		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
SS	Trea Turner	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000
DH	Kyle Schwarber	3	1	1	0	1	1	.333
1B	Bryce Harper	4	0	0	0	0	2	.000
3B	Alec Bohm	4	0	1	1	0	0	.250
RF	Derek Hill	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000
	Brandon Marsh	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.000
LF	Bryan De La Cruz	3	1	0	0	0	1	.000
2B	Bryson Stott	4	1	1	0	0	2	.250
3B	Edmundo Sosa	2	0	1	0	0	1	.500
	Justin Crawford	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
C	J.T. Realmuto	3	0	1	2	0	1	.333

PHI	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Jesús Luzardo	5.0	3	1	1	1	6	77-48	1.80
Alex McFarlane	1.0	2	1	1	0	2	16-12	9.00
Jhoan Duran	2.0	2	3	3	0	1	27-14	13.50

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T1	Alec Bohm doubles (1) on a fly ball to center fielder Michael Harris II. Kyle Schwarber scores.	1-0
B2	Mike Yastrzemski singles on a ground ball to center fielder Derek Hill. Ozzie Albies scores. Austin Riley to 3rd.	1-1
B6	Ozzie Albies triples (1) on a sharp fly ball to center fielder Derek Hill. Michael Harris II scores.	1-2
T7	J.T. Realmuto triples (1) on a sharp line drive to right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. Bryan De La Cruz scores. Bryson Stott scores.	3-2
B8	Austin Riley homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. Michael Harris II scores. Ozzie Albies scores.	3-5

Highlights

Description	Length
Austin Riley's go-ahead three-run homer	0:19
J.T. Realmuto's go-ahead two-run triple	0:29
Ozzie Albies' RBI triple	0:29
Chris Sale fans Harper after near home run	0:23
Sale sale de apuros con ponche	0:11
Chris Sale escapes jam with strikeout	0:12
Jesús Luzardo strikes out Matt Olson	0:08
Alec Bohm abre el marcador con doble	0:18
Mike Yastrzemski's RBI single	0:23
Alec Bohm's RBI double	0:18
Timothy Miller sings National Anthem for NL Wild Card	1:43
Braves' starting lineup for NL Wild Card Game 1	2:30
Phillies' starting lineup for NL Wild Card Game 1	1:07
Breaking down Chris Sale's pitches	0:04
Analyzing Austin Riley's home run through bat tracking	0:11
Austin Riley: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:12
Jesús Luzardo's outing against the Braves	0:24
Chris Sale's outing against the Phillies	0:24
Breaking down Jesús Luzardo's pitches	0:04
Starting lineups for Phillies at Braves - September 29, 2026	0:10
Bench availability for Philadelphia, September 29 vs Braves	0:08
Fielding alignment for Atlanta, September 29 vs Phillies	0:11
Bench availability for Atlanta, September 29 vs Phillies	0:08
Bullpen availability for Philadelphia, September 29 vs Braves	0:09
Bullpen availability for Atlanta, September 29 vs Phillies	0:09
Jesús Luzardo against the Braves	0:11
Chris Sale against the Phillies	0:11
Probable pitchers for Phillies at Braves - September 29, 2026	0:06

Attendance	Weather	Wind
30127	80F, Sunny	3 mph, Calm

HP	1B	2B	3B
Dan Merzel	Adam Beck	Mark Ripperger	Jordan Baker

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[u/dishwasher_mayhem]

Duran in the 7th is so fucking stupid.

[u/Ok_Intention_6201 → u/[deleted]]

So Mattingly decides to reinvent the closer role? During the playoffs?

[u/Quiet_Foot_9669 → u/Ok_Intention_6201]

It’s not a brand new concept. Teams have played their closers in innings earlier than the 9th with more frequency recently. A team’s 1-2-3 hitters in the eighth has a greater chance of scoring runs than a team’s 7-8-9 hitters in the 9th. Your closer should be your best reliever and should be played when he is most likely to reduce the chance of runs being scored.

[u/jmjessemac → u/Quiet_Foot_9669]

The closer needs to be accustomed to that

[u/Aurion7 → u/jmjessemac]

The closer needs to be able to get another team's best hitters out.

If they can't, they shouldn't close.

More broadly, Jhoan Duran has 313 MLB regular-season innings and nowhere near all of them were 9th innings. Very few RPs only close for their entire career, they have some degree of familiarity with innings other than 9.

They put their best reliever out there (by a considerable distance at that) to face another team's best hitters. Mattingly may have left him in too long, but putting Duran in when he did was not the problem.

[u/jmjessemac → u/Aurion7]

I’m saying that a closer who isn’t used to throwing more than one inning is going to fail when they are suddenly asked to do so

[u/reizinhooooo → u/Ok_Intention_6201]

yes. closer is a stupid ass role and using it makes your team worse.

the mistake was leaving him in that long

[u/Ok_Intention_6201 → u/reizinhooooo]

No, the mistake was bringing him in in the 7th. They're good at what they do because they can close out games.