<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1cXiKr_0vmVBXfL00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1cXiKr_0vmVBXfL00" width="1210" height="806" ></figure><p>There are no surprises, lineup-wise, as the Braves head into their latest do-or-die scenario against the Royals:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Back at it <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BravesCountry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BravesCountry</a><a href="https://t.co/9GL871JfU8">pic.twitter.com/9GL871JfU8</a></p>— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) <a href="https://twitter.com/Braves/status/1839742547486486763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><p>Ozzie Albies is still hitting second, righty-righty concerns be damned. Ramon Laureano has now fully usurped Jarred Kelenic’s role. Sean Murphy and Travis d’Arnaud are basically splitting time, as they have been.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Royals line up like this:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ready for Friday night baseball in Atlanta. <a href="https://t.co/wXNfZrlIqk">pic.twitter.com/wXNfZrlIqk</a></p>— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1839734012396335289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><p>This lineup has a bunch of players that didn’t start the season in Kansas City — Tommy Pham and Robbie Grossman are both on their third major league team, and Yuli Gurriel played at Gwinnett for much of the year but has actually done reasonably well given the fact that he’s 40 years old in a tiny sample of 58 PAs so far. Overall, though, only four of that starting nine come in with an xwOBA over .311 against southpaws (the actual good bats of Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Perez, to go with Pham and Gurriel); Garrett Hampson, Kyle Isbel, and Michael Massey, the latter of which is hitting third, have been abominable against lefties this year and have been at least somewhat shielded from facing them to this point.</p></div></body>

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Braves greet Royals with their “new normal” lineup

There are no surprises, lineup-wise, as the Braves head into their latest do-or-die scenario against the Royals:. Ozzie Albies is still hitting second, righty-righty concerns be damned. Ramon Laureano has now fully usurped Jarred Kelenic’s role. Sean Murphy and Travis d’Arnaud are basically splitting time, as they have been.