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The biggest change for Minnesota, however, comes as they have scratched their starting pitcher, Simeon Woods Richardson for instead a bullpen game, as the 34 year old Justin Topa will be the nominal starter for the day. The Braves will hope their offense can show up against Milwaukee\u2019s \u2018pen and that Chris Sale\u2019s run prevention can match the quality of his pitching tonight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Pq9aM3\">Today\u2019s game will be played at 7:15 PM ET in Atlanta and can be viewed on FanDuel Sports South-Southeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lefty outfielder continues to play the role of leadoff hitter in his second game as a Brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alex Verdugo leads off again, as Braves seek series victory over Twins - 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