Phillies vs. Astros World Series Game 1 starting lineups and pitching matchup - MLB.com

The Astros and Phillies enter this World Series that begins Friday night at Minute Maid Park on opposite ends of the postseason extreme.

Houston is the established elite, having been the American League’s No. 1 seed and now having advanced to the Fall Classic in four of the past six years. The Astros have thus far been a perfect 7-0 in this postseason, and they are in pursuit of a World Series crown that might not extinguish all the anguish over their 2017 trash-can-enabled title but would certainly cement them as the organization that owns October more than any other in MLB right now.

The Phillies, on the other hand, are upstarts, squeaking into October for the first time since 2011 with the help of the newly created third Wild Card spot and then bashing their way past more celebrated squads to get to the World Series for the first time since they made back-to-back appearances in 2008-09.

The Astros won 19 more games than the Phillies in the regular season. But all that matters now, as Game 1 arrives, is that both clubs enter this Series with rested aces and major momentum. Will the Astros’ recent experience be an edge or will the Phillies pound their way to a championship that few could have seen coming? We’ll start to get an answer Friday night.

When is the game and how can I watch it?

Game 1, which will air on FOX, is scheduled for Friday.

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Who are the starting pitchers?

Phillies: Ace Zack Wheeler (12-7, 2.82 ERA) is expected to start Game 1. He is 1-1 with a 1.78 ERA in four postseason starts, with 25 strikeouts and just three walks over 25 1/3 innings. He missed a month late in the season because of right forearm tendinitis and the time away seemed to have rejuvenated him. Wheeler is pitching some of the best baseball of his career at the most important time of his career.

Astros: Justin Verlander (1-0, 6.30 ERA in the postseason) is expected to start Game 1 in Houston. Verlander started Game 1 of the ALDS against the Mariners, giving up six runs and 10 hits in four innings, and pitched better in his Game 1 start in the ALCS, allowing one run and three hits in six innings against the Yankees. His final regular-season start came Oct. 4 against the Phillies and he didn’t allow a hit in five innings, capping a regular season in which he was 18-4 with a 1.75 ERA and will likely win his third Cy Young Award. In his postseason career, he’s 15-11 with a 3.55 ERA in 33 games (32 starts), but is 0-6 with a 5.68 ERA in seven World Series starts.

What might the starting lineups look like?

Phillies: Philadelphia entered the World Series with the top four hitters in its lineup swinging the bat well. Manager Rob Thomson has been pretty consistent with the Phils' lineup in the postseason: The only changes come at center fielder and shortstop. Brandon Marsh and Bryson Stott start against righties, while Matt Vierling and Edmundo Sosa start against lefties.

Astros: Why mess with a good thing? Martín Maldonado will catch Verlander in Game 1, which means he’ll bat ninth behind Chas McCormick, who has gotten most of the starts at center in the playoffs and should be in the lineup in Game 1.

How will the bullpens line up after the starter?

Astros: The Astros posted the best bullpen ERA in the regular season in the Major Leagues and the relief corps has pitched even better in the playoffs. Astros relievers have allowed three runs -- all on solo homers -- and 14 hits while striking out 42 batters in 33 innings this postseason. Bryan Abreu, Héctor Neris, Rafael Montero and closer Ryan Pressly have emerged as Dusty Baker’s four main high-leverage bullpen arms, but there’s depth beyond that. Ryne Stanek, who had a 1.15 ERA in the regular season, has swing-and-miss stuff and the Astros still have two starters in the bullpen: José Urquidy, who hasn’t pitched yet in the playoffs, and Luis Garcia, whose only playoff outing was five scoreless innings in relief to close out Game 3 of the ALDS.

Phillies: The Phils are healthy.

Astros: Houston is as healthy as it’s been all season. Outfielder Michael Brantley (shoulder surgery) and catcher Jason Castro (knee surgery) were ruled out for the season in June.

Who is hot and who is not?

Phillies: Harper is batting .419 with six doubles, five home runs, 11 RBIs and a 1.351 OPS in the postseason. He hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning in Game 5 on Sunday to send Philadelphia to the World Series, earning the NLCS MVP for his efforts.

Schwarber is batting .368 with three homers, four RBIs and a 1.442 OPS in his past seven playoff games.

Gurriel is 11-for-30 (.367) and Bregman is 10-for-30 (.333) in the postseason.

Altuve, who started the postseason 0-for-25, had a two-hit game in Game 4 of the ALCS.

Alvarez is 7-for-29 with two homers and eight RBIs in the playoffs, but he was 3-for-14 in the ALCS.

Anything else fans might want to know?

• This is the Phillies’ first trip to the World Series since 2009, when they lost to the Yankees in six games.

• The Astros are 11-1 in October (regular season and postseason). The only team to beat them in that span? The Phillies, who won, 3-0, on Oct. 3 in Houston.

• The Astros and Phillies met once previously in the playoffs. That was in 1980, when the Astros split the first two games of the best-of-five NLCS and then dropped the final two games. Four of the five games went into extra innings.

• The Astros are 9-15 all-time in World Series games, having lost six of their last eight games in the Fall Classic. Houston is 3-9 all-time at home in the World Series, having lost six of their last seven World Series home games.

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