{"id":696402,"date":"2026-06-10T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696402\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:30:10","slug":"michael-harris-ii-leads-off-austin-wynns-starts-second-straight-game-in-game-2-vs-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/696402\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Harris II leads off, Austin Wynns starts second straight game in Game 2 vs. White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Braves are looking to force a rubber match tomorrow with a win tonight behind Chris Sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chicago<\/a> waited until the last second to confirm it, but they will indeed send Davis Martin<\/a> to the mound to face the Ronald Acu\u00f1a<\/a> Jr.-less Braves.\u00a0Upside for us, downside for his teammates? More time for pranks<\/a>, maybe.<\/p>\n

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(The roster moves today: Ronald to the 10-day IL for the strained left hamstring<\/a> (hello, Rowdy Tellez<\/a>), Tyler Kinley to the 15-day IL for his elbow, James Karinchak selected, JR Ritchie recalled, and Carlos Carrasco DFA\u2019d<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Even though the role of RAJ was played by Eli White<\/a> on last night\u2019s great outfield assist<\/a>, it will be Michael Harris II<\/a> batting leadoff. Ozzie Albies<\/a> will hit second, and then we\u2019ll go from small to tall with Matt Olson<\/a> in the three-hole. Dominic Smith<\/a> will hit in the cleanup spot, followed by Mauricio Dubon<\/a> making a start in left field. Austin Riley<\/a> (sixth) and Mike Yastrzemski<\/a> (seventh) aren\u2019t surprising to see. Walt Weiss rounds out the lineup with Jorge Mateo<\/a> at shortstop and Austin Wynns<\/a> catching and batting ninth for a second straight start.<\/p>\n

Atlanta isn\u2019t the only one shaking things up \u2013 the White Sox<\/a> have reengineered their whole lineup to face a southpaw. The only constant from last night\u2019s lineup is Luisangel Acu\u00f1a playing SS and hitting eighth.<\/p>\n

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Last night\u2019s walkoff hero Braden Montgomery remains in right field but moves up a spot to bat fifth. What a great story for your major league debut\u2026 just wish it didn\u2019t have to happen to us. But that\u2019s baseball!<\/p>\n

New face Edgar Quero<\/a> will start instead of Drew Romo<\/a> to catch and bat cleanup. Randal Grichuk<\/a>, who came in late last night as a pinch-hitter, will DH and bat second behind Chase Meidroth<\/a>. As mentioned in the preview, Grichuk has the most history versus Sale<\/a>. Miguel Vargas<\/a> drops a spot to bat third and play third. Derek Hill<\/a> will man left field and bat fifth. Jacob Gonzalez remains at first base but will bat seventh, and following Acu\u00f1a in the nine-hole will be center fielder Tristan Peters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First pitch is at 7:40 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves are looking to force a rubber match tomorrow with a win tonight behind Chris Sale. Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,142455,105277,34660,172271,157,90189,208466,158695,4287,171563,153014,36899,170547,86477,9885,133475,29504,76813,40812,363,18700,99361,18917,101539,99,83957,99763,27360,36362],"class_list":["post-696402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-austin-riley","tag-austin-wynns","tag-carlos-carrasco","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chris-sale","tag-davis-martin","tag-derek-hill","tag-dominic-smith","tag-drew-romo","tag-edgar-quero","tag-eli-white","tag-james-karinchak","tag-jorge-mateo","tag-matt-olson","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-randal-grichuk","tag-ronald-acuna","tag-rowdy-tellez","tag-sports","tag-the-braves","tag-tristan-peters","tag-tyler-kinley","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}