Phillies-Braves: Schedule, tickets, and everything else you need to know

After sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals, the Philadelphia Phillies will face the Atlanta Braves in the National League divisional series, which is scheduled to begin Tuesday.

It’s just the second time the Phillies have played the Braves in the postseason. The two teams faced off in the 1993 National League championship series, which the Phillies won in six games despite being underdogs against a Braves team featuring Hall of Famers Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz.

“They’re really good,” interim manager Rob Thomson said of the Braves. “They hit a lot of home runs. They score runs. They’ve got good starting pitchers and a good bullpen. They’re the defending world champions. Until you beat them, they’re the world champions.”

Here’s everything you need to know about the Phillies’ playoff schedule, announcers, and the rules in place for the postseason. This will be updated as more information becomes available:

The 2022 MLB playoffs began Friday with the wild-card round, a best-of-three series that features four teams from the National League and four teams from the American League. The two highest-seeded teams in each league got a bye and face the wild-card winners in the divisional round.

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After sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in the wild card round, the Phillies will face the Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five divisional series that begins Tuesday.

Unlike the wild-card round, the divisional series has a 2-2-1 format, meaning the Phillies would be playing at Citizens Bank Park in Games 3 and 4, if the series goes that far.

The Phillies went 8-11 this year against the Braves, the defending World Series champs who won the NL East for the fifth straight season.

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While ESPN had the exclusive television rights to this year’s wild-card games, Fox will broadcast all the National League playoff games through the World Series. TBS will air all the American League games.

With Joe Buck at ESPN, Fox has turned to Joe Davis as it’s top baseball play-by-play announcer. He’ll be paired with Hall of Famer John Smoltz.

Here is the Phillies-Braves divisional series schedule, if a fifth game is necessary:

While the games won’t air on NBC Sports Philadelphia, they will be carried on 94.1 WIP throughout the Phillies’ playoff run, with Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen on the call.

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The last time the Phillies played a home playoff game at Citizens Bank Park was Oct. 7, 2011, when they were eliminated from the playoffs by the St. Louis Cardinals. So it’s no surprise demand for Phillies home playoff tickets is extraordinarily high.

While the Phillies sold out of tickets to the National League divisional series at Citizens Bank Park over the weekend, tickets can still be found on the secondary market... for a price.

Tickets to Saturday’s Game 4 were available on StubHub, Seat Geek, and Vivid Seats Wednesday night, but the cheapest tickets were going for about $200 each.

There are no “ghost runners” during this year’s playoffs.

During the regular season, MLB brought back the designated runner, rule, which puts a player on second base to begin each half inning if a game is tied after nine innings. The rule was an attempt to preserve pitching staffs and avoid extra-long regular season games.

But during the playoffs, that rule is out the window. So if any Phillies-Braves games enter extra innings, you won’t see anyone on second base to start the inning.

Here is the full MLB postseason schedule. All times are Eastern.