{"id":653400,"date":"2026-03-30T23:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653400\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:10:28","slug":"braves-repeat-opening-day-lineup-for-series-opener-against-athletics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653400\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves repeat Opening Day lineup for series opener against Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Athletics will be starting Jacob Lopez in the series opener in Cobb County against our Atlanta Braves. Lopez is a left-handed starter. As such, Walt Weiss has decided to break out the left-hand counter lineup and as such, Ozzie Albies is batting right-handed and hitting third in this particular lineup once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s the entire Braves lineup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If the lineup looks really familiar, that\u2019s because this is the exact same lineup that the Braves rolled out there on Opening Night. That was a 6-0 win for the Braves so maybe that\u2019ll be a good sign for what\u2019s coming tonight. For now, here\u2019s hoping that Ozzie Albies continues to make the manager look good for placing him that high in the lineup against left-handers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s the lineup for the A\u2019s:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As I mentioned in the preview, the Blue Jays absolutely had their way with this lineup (except for old friend Shea Langeliers) so they may be looking for a bit of a breakout tonight against Bryce Elder and the Braves pitching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What do y\u2019all think about this lineup from the Braves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics will be starting Jacob Lopez in the series opener in Cobb County against our Atlanta Braves.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,46,5,4720,632,4,3226,1132,3442,57061,35610],"class_list":{"0":"post-653400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-bryce-elder","12":"tag-jacob-lopez","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-athletics","15":"tag-ozzie-albies","16":"tag-shea-langeliers","17":"tag-the-kansas-city-royals","18":"tag-walt-weiss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116320654347078368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}