2B Brandon Phillips (hamstring) wasn't in the startling lineup after exiting Thursday's game early. Manager Brian Snitkit didn't think it was a long-term injury and said he thought Phillips was "sore" but he would be available as a pinch-hitter.

2B Brandon Phillips continues to swing a hot bat since the All-Star break, but he was forced to leave in the sixth inning with a strained right hamstring. Phillips, who is day-to-day, had a triple. He is hitting 11-for-23 since the All-Star break.

2B Brandon Phillips was 1-for-4, picking up a hit in his final at-bat. Since the All-Star Game, Phillips is batting .500 (10-for-20).

2B Brandon Phillips was 2-for-4 and is now batting .563 (9-for-16) since the All-Star Game. Phillips drove in the first run and has put the Braves ahead in three consecutive games. He is tied for the team lead with 13 go-ahead RBI.

2B Brandon Phillips, who came into Saturday with in an 8-for-53 slump, had his second straight three-hit game Sunday. He had three doubles this time after getting a single, a double and homer the previous night. Phillips leads the team with 24 doubles and is batting .291 with eight homers and 34 RBIs in 83 games.

2B Brandon Phillips was a triple short of the cycle Saturday as he had a single, homer and double his first three times up against Arizona. Seven of his eight homers have come at SunTrust Park. The metro Atlanta resident never homered in 34 career games as a visiting player at Turner Field.

2B Brandon Phillips has homered in three straight games, becoming the first Braves player to do that since Justin Upton in 2014. Phillips homered in four straight games last year with the Reds. Since May 16, Phillips is hitting .333 (47-for-141) with 19 extra base hits.

2B Brandon Phillips had a home run and a double on Friday. He homered on the first pitch he saw in the first inning for his sixth homer. He has gone deep in back-to-back games. It's the first time he's homered on consecutive days since homering in four straight games last season for Cincinnati.

2B Brandon Phillips singled home the winning run for the second straight day and became the team's first player to produce walkoff hits since Ozzie Virgil in 1988. Only Dusty Baker and Denis Menke have collected consecutive game-ending RBI on back-to-back days. Phillips has eight game-ending RBI.

2B Brandon Phillips had the seventh walk-off hit of his career and first with the Braves on Saturday, delivering the winning hit in the 10th inning against the Marlins. Phillips scored the tying run in the ninth after a double and was 3-for-6 in the game. He is hitting .359 (23-for-64) over his past 14 games.

INF Brandon Phillips had four hits on Wednesday against the Nationals in the series finale. He hit No. 2 in the lineup and the top three hitters combined for 10 hits in the win. Phillips is now batting .306.

2B Brandon Phillips continues to sizzle at SunTrust Park. The veteran was 3-for-9 with a home run in the doubleheader. He's batting .339 in 103 at-bats with three of his four homers at SunTrust.

2B Brandon Phillips was 2-for-4 on Thursday and has at least one hit in 22 of 25 games at SunTrust Park, including nine straight games. Seven of his last nine home games have produced multi-hit efforts.

2B Brandon Phillips was 0-for-5 in his first game back in Cincinnati after spending 11 seasons with the Reds. Phillips is 2-for-19 seven games into Atlanta's nine-game road trip.

2B Brandon Phillips returned to the lineup Wednesday after missing the previous two games with a contusion on his right knee suffered Sunday in San Francisco. Phillips, who went 0 for 4 in the game against the Angels, hit his 200th career homer on May 22 to become the sixth second baseman in major league history to hit 200 homers and steal 200 bases.

2B Brandon Phillips was not in the starting lineup for the second game in a row Tuesday because of a contusion on his right knee, sustained Sunday in San Francisco. Phillips, who is hitting .381 (16-for-42) dating back to May 16, said he expects to be back in the lineup on Wednesday.

2B Brandon Phillips sat out Monday's game after suffering a slight knee contusion in Sunday's game against San Francisco. Braves manager Brian Snitker said Phillips could start Tuesday's game. Jace Peterson started at second Monday and went 0-for-3.

2B Brandon Phillips hit his third home run of the season Monday, and it was the 200th of his career. Phillips became the sixth second baseman to reach the milestone. He had two hits and has nine hits in his last 21 at-bats.

2B Brandon Phillips had two doubles in three at-bats against RHP Marco Estrada on Tuesday in the 9-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Phillips is batting .393 in 28 career at-bats against Estrada.

2B Brandon Phillips was given a rest on Sunday. He went over 900 RBIs this weekend, which ranks 15th among active major-leaguers. Phillips, 35, is in his first year with the Braves after spending the past 11 seasons with the Cincinnati Reds. He is known primarily as a standout defensive player, winning four Gold Glove awards from 2008 to 2013. A career .275 hitter with a .740 OPS, Phillips this year is hitting .282 with a .695 OPS.