Riley makes first start at hot corner as Braves go for sweep

The Braves are making a few changes to their recent defensive arrangement and lineup for today’s series finale against the Milwaukee Brewers:

Austin Riley makes his first start at third base, in place of Josh Donaldson. Johan Camargo will take over in left field. With Donaldson’s absence, both Nick Markakis and Riley move up a slot in the order to hit fourth and fifth, respectively, while Camargo slots in at sixth. Suffice to say, the Braves have not yet used this arrangement this year.

For the Brewers, Jesus Aguilar and Ryan Braun will take a spot on the bench. Eric Thames and Ben Gamel will start in their respective places.

This will be the Brewers’ first time using this defensive arrangement, though no one is playing out of position or anything.

No one on the Braves has ever faced Brandon Woodruff. It’s actually kind of weird in that he’s pitched over 130 major league innings across parts of three seasons, but never against the Braves, at least not until today. On the other hand, this Milwaukee corps has plenty of experience against Foltynewicz. Grandal has taken Foltynewicz deep twice in his career, and is making the rare day-game-after-a-night-game start. Aguilar, who isn’t in the starting lineup, has also homered off the Braves’ right-hander. The Milwaukee batter with the most experience against Foltynewicz is Christian Yelich, who’s faced him 24 times and has nine hits (eight singles, one double) and a walk off of him.