Here’s how the Braves line up against Max Scherzer for tonight’s series opener. It’s the usual arrangement. Keep an eye on Freddie Freeman and Preston Tucker: Tucker homered off of Scherzer last week, and Freeman is the only other hitter on the roster to have taken the Cy Young threepeater deep.
Meanwhile, here’s the starting nine for the Nationals.
Harper now has eight dingers against Teheran; Zimmerman has three. This really isn’t a lineup or cast of characters that Teheran has really managed all too well.