{"id":79434,"date":"2026-10-01T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/braves-power-past-phillies-in-game-3-to-book-nlds-showdown-with-dodgers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:55:43","slug":"braves-power-past-phillies-in-game-3-to-book-nlds-showdown-with-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/braves-power-past-phillies-in-game-3-to-book-nlds-showdown-with-dodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves power past Phillies in Game 3 to book NLDS showdown with Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Harris hits three-run homer in decisive Game 3<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kerr throws 3 1\/3 scoreless innings for Atlanta<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Braves advance to face two-time champion Dodgers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Harris II hit a three-run homer in the first inning, Ray Kerr threw 3 1\/3 scoreless innings and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2 on Thursday night in the decisive Game 3 of their National League wildcard series.<\/p>\n<p>Ozzie Albies hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Matt Olson added a solo shot in the seventh for the Braves, who advance to a best-of-five Division Series against the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/01\/braves-phillies-nl-wild-card-game-3-mlb-playoffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris hits three-run homer in decisive Game 3 Kerr throws 3 1\/3 scoreless innings for Atlanta Braves advance to face two-time champion Dodgers Michael Harris II hit a three-run homer in the first inning, Ray Kerr threw 3 1\/3 scoreless innings and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2 on Thursday night in the &#8230; <a title=\"Braves power past Phillies in Game 3 to book NLDS showdown with Dodgers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/braves-power-past-phillies-in-game-3-to-book-nlds-showdown-with-dodgers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Braves power past Phillies in Game 3 to book NLDS showdown with Dodgers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}