Lineup, how to watch Braves at Red Sox in Friday night's spring training matchup

The Atlanta Braves are hopping on the bus for a quick 60-mile drive south to Ft. Myers to visit the Boston Red Sox in Grapefruit League action this evening.

UPDATE: Both Michael Harris and Eddie Rosario have been scratched from tonight's game with back tightness, per Mark Bowman of MLB.com

Rosario has also been scratched from tonight’s game with back tightness https://t.co/KzQf0PFUtW
— Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) March 24, 2023

Here's how the Braves will line up for the contest:

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— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) March 24, 2023

As is characteristic for games late in spring training, it's a lineup of mostly regulars and has a lot of similarities to what you'll see next week when the regular season starts on Opening Day in Washington. (EDIT: It looked a LOT like a regular season lineup before Harris and Rosario were removed)

Starting today for the Braves is prospect Dylan Dodd, the other half of the battle for the 5th rotation spot with fellow prospect lefty Jared Shuster. We wrote about how tight this battle was last week, and both hurlers have continue to perform exceptionally. Manager Brian Snitker and general manager Alex Anthopoulos have to make a decision soon on which prospect to take to Atlanta and which to send to AAA Gwinnett - if we had to guess, based on Shuster's longer experience in the upper minors (he has 30 games in the upper minors, twenty in AA and ten in AAA, versus Dodd's 10 total high minors appearances, with nine of those being in AA Mississippi) he'd get the nod but the race is as tight as possible as we head into Friday's game.

For spring training, Dylan Dodd leads qualified Braves starters with a 0.69 ERA in 13 innings pitched (4 appearances, 2 starts) with two walks to fifteen strikeouts. He's allowed seven hits and the one run was a solo home run from Philly's Brandon Marsh.

Jared Shuster is right behind Dodd, statistically: After yesterday's start, he's sporting a 1.45 ERA in 18.2 innings pitched (5 appearances, 4 starts) with four walks to eighteen strikeouts. His runs allowed were a solo home run to Pittsburgh's Bryan Reynolds and two runs scored in the 2-2 tie with the Mets (spring training!), coming on two sacrifice flies in the 3rd inning from Eduardo Escobar and Starling Marte.

(The first run would not have scored but for a missed catch at the plate - Ronald Acuña Jr. uncorked a ROCKET from right field that beat the runner to the plate, but the catch was missed by catcher Travis d'Arnaud)

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Here's how the Red Sox will counter at home in JetBlue Park:

Today's game, sadly, is not being broadcast on television for Braves fans, but Boston market residents can view the game on NESN and that feed is a free game for today on MLB.com. The radio call, with Ben Ingram and former Brave Kelly Johnson, is available in the Atlanta area on WIFN 1340 AM/103.7FM and online at MLB.com.

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