The National League Championship Series starts with Game 1 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night time at Citizens Bank Park. The D-backs earned their position within the NLCS by way of beating the Milwaukee Brewers within the Wild Card Series and Los Angeles Dodgers within the Division Series. The Phillies ousted the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
The Phillies received the season sequence 4-3 in opposition to the D-backs and outscored them 44-34, even though the video games have been nearer than that might lead you consider. Five of the seven video games have been made up our minds by way of one run and some other by way of 3 runs. A lopsided 15-3 blowout win by way of the Phillies skews that run differential. Philadelphia had the awesome document (90-72 vs. 84-78) and run differential (plus-81 vs. minus-15) throughout the common season, even though common season results do not topic a lot now.
You can view the overall postseason time table by way of clicking right here, and here is the 2023 playoff bracket. Now, let’s get to the essential stuff for the NLCS.
Phillies vs. D-backs time table
Monday, Oct. 16
Game 1: D-backs at Phillies, 8:07 p.m. ET, TBS
Tuesday, Oct. 17
Game 2: D-backs at Phillies, 8:07 p.m. ET, TBS
Thursday, Oct. 19
Game 3: Phillies at D-backs, 5:07 p.m. ET, TBS
Friday, Oct. 20
Game 4 : Phillies at D-backs, 8:07 p.m. ET, TBS
Saturday, Oct. 21
Game 5 (if essential): Phillies at D-backs, 8:07 p.m. ET, TBS
Monday, Oct. 23
Game 6 (if essential): D-backs at Phillies, 5:07 p.m. ET, TBS
Tuesday, Oct. 24
Game 7 (if essential): D-backs at Phillies, 8:07 p.m. ET, TBS
How to watch Game 1
Date: Monday, Oct. 16Â |Â Time: 8:07 p.m.
Location: Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia, PA)
TV channel: TBS | Live movement: TBS app
Starting pitchers:Â RHP Zac Gallen (17-9, 3.47 ERA) vs. RHP Zack Wheeler (13-6, 3.61 ERA)
Phillies vs. D-backs odds
Series odds: PHI -170Â | ARI +150
Game 1 odds: PHI -170 | ARI +143 | O/U: 7.5
Preview
The Phillies have not showed their rotation order but, however Game 1 will see aces Zac Gallen and Zack Wheeler get the ball. Always great when aces fit up in Game 1. To win the sequence, the D-backs will have to win a recreation at Citizens Bank Park and will have to win a recreation began by way of Wheeler or Aaron Nola. That’s simply how the mathematics works. Getting each out of the way in which in Game 1 can be a excellent begin to the sequence. Keep a watch on Arizona’s working recreation. They ranked 2nd with 166 stolen bases this season (with a very good 86% good fortune price) and Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto threw out simplest 19% of basestealers this yr, under the league moderate. The D-backs may actually push the envelope at the bases in Game 1 and within the sequence normally.
Prediction
Wheeler is an excessive amount of for the D-backs to take care of and each Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos each and every pass deep to energy the Phillies to a comfortable-ish Game 1 win. Pick: Phillies 5, D-backs 2.
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