Phillies Vs. Braves Game 4 Start Time Changed Thursday Night

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Six home runs and two long stares later, the Phillies find themselves on the brink of dethroning the vaunted Atlanta Braves in the National League Division Series for the second straight year.

They now lead the series, 2-1, and can close out the best of five series with a win at Citizens Bank Park on Thursday night.

The start time for the game has been pushed back from 6:07 pm. to 8 p.m., the MLB announced shortly after Wednesday night's game. This is because the other NLDS series, between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers, is already over, so a Game 4 in that series will not be broadcast after the Phillies game.

The game will be broadcast once again on TBS, the notoriously Braves-friendly network, owned by the former owner of the Braves, Ted Turner. For those wishing to drone out the announcers that complained Wednesday night about Bryce Harper's home run celebrations, MLB Network will again run its Spanish-language broadcast of the game.

The Game 4 starters will be the same as Game 1: Spencer Strider for the Braves, against Ranger Suarez for the Phillies. Both are coming back on regular rest.

If the Phillies can beat the Braves Thursday night, they'll face the upstart Diamondbacks — who themselves dethroned the 100-win Dodgers — in the National League Championship.

And one other interesting note to that, after the latest bedlam at the Bank: the Phillies would have home field advantage in that series.