Hechavarria making first 2020 start in Mets series opener

Here’s your Braves lineup for this Friday night contest, which has not yet been cancelled:

This is a “new” lineup, as Adeiny Hechavarria makes his first start of 2020, batting eighth. He replaces Ozzie Albies at the keystone, with the latter sitting as a combination day-off-slash-a-small-wrist-problem thing. Dansby Swanson, who has murdered the baseball to start this shortened season, moves up to the two-hole in Albies’ absence.

The Mets, meanwhile, are deployed as follows:

No Jeff McNeil in this lineup, as Andres Gimenez makes his second start of the year, and first start at third base, of the season. This is a fairly novel lineup for New York all around, as Brandon Nimmo is batting second for the first time all season. J.D. Davis moved up to cleanup and Yoenis Cespedes dropped to sixth after the Braves murdered the Mets in the 14-1 Sunday night rout with this same pitching matchup.