What It Means:

Sosa will sit after he went hitless with a strikeout on Wednesday, and also committed an error in the field. Alec Bohm will be on third base and bat fifth for the Phillies while Darick Hall will cover first base and hit eighth.

numberFire’s models project Hall ($2,100) for 5.7 and Bohm ($3,000) for 8.7 FanDuel points on Thursday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Phillies' implied total is 4.33 and the game total is 8.5. Burnes has a 3.73 ERA and 3.57 xERA this season, with a 32.7% hard-hit rate, 24.8% strikeout rate, and 8.8% walk rate. However, Burnes owns an elite 36.6% punchout rate across three July starts, including 13 in his last outing.