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Jake Arrieta gets ball as Phillies face Giants on Sunday Night Baseball

Jake Arrieta will start for the Phillies Sunday evening. (Nick Tre. Smith/Icon Sportswire)

The Philadelphia Phillies first Sunday game of the 2019 season came on Apr. 1, when they hosted the Atlanta Braves on Sunday Night Baseball. Jake Arrieta walked six batters, but managed to limit the Braves to just three hits and one run across six innings in a 5-1 Phillies win.

Pitching with a bone spur in his right elbow, the Phillies best chance at splitting their four-game weekend series with the San Francisco Giants may be for Arrieta to again labor through five or six innings and give the Phillies offense a chance to win on Sunday Night Baseball.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of this evening’s Phillies-Giants tilt:

Phillies Lineup

Bryce Harper, right field
Rhys Hoskins, first base
Jean Segura, shortstop
J.T. Realmuto, catcher
Scott Kingery, third base
Sean Rodriguez, left field
Cesar Hernandez, second base
Jake Arrieta, pitcher
Roman Quinn, center field

Giants Lineup

Brandon Belt, first base
Mike Yastrzemski, left field
Evan Longoria, third base
Stephen Vogt, catcher
Scooter Gennett, second base
Kevin Pillar, center field
Brandon Crawford, shortstop
Austin Slater, right field
Connor Menez, pitcher

Shibe Vintage Sports Starting Pitching Matchup

RHP Jake Arrieta (8-8, 4.41 ERA and 4.88 FIP) vs. LHP Conner Menez (0-1, 5.73 ERA and 7.49 FIP)
In six career regular season starts at Oracle Park, Arrieta is 4-2 with a 3.05 ERA. Of course, he didn’t have a bone spur in his pitching elbow in any of those starts.
While Menez’s numbers in two major league starts this season aren’t impressive, the 24-year-old is 5-3 with a 3.29 ERA in 104.0 innings between Double-A and Triple A.

Pregame Phillies Nuggets

Though Bryce Harper has four home runs in his first 10 games in August, he’s hitting just just .225 this month. Harper’s batting average for the season sits at .249 in 429 at-bats.

A 19-6 month of July kept the Giants from aggressively selling before the trade deadline – while they made two small trades, they held onto Madison Bumgarner and Will Smith – but they are 3-7 in their first 10 games in August.
Corey Dickerson has nine hits in his first 25 at-bats as a Phillie, including three home runs. That he’s not in the lineup Sunday suggests that the Phillies still don’t feel he’s fully recovered from a groin injury that has hampered him for much of the season.

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