“Clash of Titans: Will the Phillies and Braves Ignite a Historic Home Run Derby?”

The Braves have arguably had the worst start of anyone in the league this season. Atlanta is just 2-8 for the year with both of those wins coming at home and in the past three games. Their offense has been rather abysmal with a .207 batting average and 31 runs scored in 10 games. I am not really one to think that they need to hit the panic button, but I did think they would take a step back this year. In this small sample size, it appears that this is the case. Obviously a lot of season needs to happen before I will claim that I was correct, but the Phillies and Mets both got better and the Braves may improvements were mostly health related. Tonight, they send out Grant Holmes to the hill. Holmes is kind of in a swing role, as a reliever to start the season, but he did make one start. Holmes one start didn’t go great, allowing four earned runs over four innings. He allowed four hits and four walks in that stretch too. The Phillies haven’t had a ton of experience against him, but he has allowed three hits in 12 at-bats to them. Last season Holmes was better at home than he was on the road, but he did struggle as a starter last year.

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