<\/strong> Marlins starting pitcher Chris Volstad is an even 9-9 with a 4.82 ERA in 25 starts this season and is coming in on a three-game winning streak.\u00a0 In those games, he has allowed nine runs and 20 hits over 19 innings of work, while the offense has provided 29 runs of support.\u00a0 The right-hander is an even 5-5 with a 5.79 ERA in 12 road starts, surrendering 11 home runs in 65.1 frames.\u00a0 He has posted an impressive 5-1 record in eight starts since the All-Star break, after going 4-8 before the Midsummer Classic.\u00a0 In nine career games versus the Phillies, Volstad has produced a 2-3 mark and 3.99 ERA, including a perfect 2-0 record and 4.12 ERA in four outings at Citizens Bank Park.<\/p>\n Philadelphia sits just one-half game back of the Braves and will look to possibly sit atop the division alone for the first time since May 30, as the team has won 31 of 45 games.\u00a0 3B Placido Polanco has led the team over that span, hitting .343 with 15 RBIs in the victories over that stretch, while posting a .157 average with two RBIs in the losses.\u00a0 The Phillies are 26-23 against the NL East in 2010 (-160) and their 23 losses are the fewest among all teams in their division.\u00a0 Of their 22 home series this season, the club has posted a 13-5-4 mark and is hitting .260 with 333 runs scored.\u00a0 Philadelphia is an impressive 22-8 when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season (+1,380).<\/p>\n Phillies starting pitcher Joe Blanton is an even 6-6 with a 5.25 ERA in 23 starts this season and the club has won his last two outings.\u00a0 In those outings, he has allowed seven runs (five earned) and 16 hits over 10.1 innings, while the offense has provided 15 runs of support.\u00a0 The right-hander has a 4-2 record and 4.40 ERA in 12 starts, as opposing hitters have combined for a .301 average.\u00a0 He has tallied a solid 14-6 mark and 4.86 ERA in 29 career games (26 starts) in September, but that isn\u2019t close to his 2.7 career ERA in August.\u00a0 In six lifetime starts versus the Marlins. Blanton is 4-2 with a 3.44 ERA, issuing 12 walks and punching out 37 batters.<\/p>\n Bettors may elect to play the road underdog in this contest due to the Marlins being 4-1 in Volstad\u2019s last five outings versus the NL East, while the Phillies are 1-5 in Blanton\u2019s last six tries against the division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Phillies look to regain the top spot in the NL East division, but will have to fight off the Fish to get there. Florida Marlins at Philadelphia Phillies Florida gained a split in the Labor Day doubleheader and has actually gone 5-5 over its last 10 games.\u00a0 The Marlins earned a 7-1 victory in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":4973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1562,2872,130,1728,1653,98],"class_list":["post-7172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-chris-volstad","tag-citizens-bank","tag-florida-marlins","tag-joe-blanton","tag-nl-east","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/chase-utley-phillies-9320-150x150.jpg\")
Florida gained a split in the Labor Day doubleheader and has actually gone 5-5 over its last 10 games.\u00a0 The Marlins earned a 7-1 victory in the first game to improve their record to four games over .500 for the first time this year, only to drop the second game and fall to 70-67 at the end of the night.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a long shot, but we\u2019re going to keep playing hard,\u201d Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez said about the team\u2019s playoff chances.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The club is 4-3 in Philadelphia this season, but is trailing the season series 5-8 overall and own a all-time record of 131-149 against the Phillies.\u00a0 Florida has a solid 32-28 mark against divisional foes this season (+360) and the total is 32-25 O\/U in those contests.<\/p>\n