Ha-Seong Kim starts third straight game against the Giants in road trip rubber match

Beautiful day in the Bay for the 50th win of the season, who says no?

Well, it may be the Braves offense, if last night is any indication. Logan Webb was as excellent as advertised, unfortunately. It’d be great to see some signs of life in this last West Coast road game of the season by solving Robbie Ray to take the rubber match and series.

The Braves’ lone hit last night came from today’s leadoff man Mauricio Dubón, who remains in left field. Otherwise, it’s a familiar sequence of Michael Harris II, Ozzie Albies, Matt Olson, and Drake Baldwin. Baldwin gets the day off behind the plate today with Joey Bart serving as the battery mate for Chris Sale and batting seventh. Mike Yastrzemski started the first two games of this homecoming series, but will sit today with Eli White in right field. Notably, Ha-Seong Kim will start his third consecutive game at shortstop and batting ninth. He worked a walk last night, which I’ll delusionally hope and pray is the beginning of a turnaround.

The Giants will line up as follows behind Ray:

As the excited caption indicates, Heliot Ramos returns from the IL after being sidelined with a right quad strain. He’ll bat sixth as the designated hitter. 

With the most experience against Sale, third baseman Matt Chapman will lead off for San Francisco. Victor Bericoto returns to right field after sitting yesterday. Rookie catcher Drew Cavanaugh will get his first day off since debuting Friday as Eric Haase rounds out the lineup batting ninth.

If nothing else, the 9 or 10 pm ET start times are behind us, Braves Country. Today’s first pitch is at 4:05 pm ET.