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The Indians will play their first intersquad scrimmage of the 2020 season tonight at Progressive Field, as Shane Bieber will get the ball for the four and a half inning affair. Here's the two lineups for the game to maybe give some indication as to how manager Terry Francona and the coaching staff will line things up once the regular season kicks off on July 24th.
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00:00I'm Matt Lodi for Cleveland Baseball Insider here on SI.com at Progressive Field where
00:06tonight the Indians will play a four-and-a-half inning inter-squad scrimmage for the first
00:11time in 2020.
00:13The lineups for tonight could give us an indication of how it's going to look come opening day
00:17on July the 24th when the Indians take on the Kansas City Royals.
00:21Batting first for the Tribe in one lineup will be Cesar Hernandez.
00:24He'll play second base.
00:25Batting second, it'll be Carlos Santana playing first base.
00:29Batting third, Francisco Lindor, he'll play short.
00:31In the cleanup spot, it'll be Jose Ramirez.
00:34He will play third base.
00:35Batting in the fifth spot, Roberto Perez, the catcher.
00:38Sixth, Domingo Santana, DH.
00:40Seventh, Jake Bowers, he'll play left field.
00:42In the eighth spot, it'll be Daniel Johnson, the lefty, playing in right.
00:46And batting ninth, it'll be Greg Allen playing center.
00:48On the other side, it'll be Oscar Mercado leading off, playing center field.
00:52Batting second, Tyler Naquin in right.
00:54Batting third and DH-ing will be Fran Milreas.
00:57Batting fourth will be the catcher, Sandy Leon.
00:59Batting fifth, Mike Freeman.
01:00He'll play at second.
01:02Batting in the next spot will be Christian Arroyo.
01:04He'll play at third base.
01:06Next up, it'll be Yu Chang.
01:07He'll play at shortstop.
01:09Batting in the eighth spot will be Jake Elmore.
01:11He'll play first.
01:12And finally, batting ninth and playing left field, it'll be George Valera.
01:15The Indians will go with Shane Bieber on lineup number one.
01:18He'll pitch all four and a half innings.
01:20The bullpen will pick up on team two.
01:23Again, the Indians, an inter-squad scrimmage, four and a half innings tonight here at Progressive
01:27Field in Cleveland.
01:28For Cleveland Baseball Insider and SI.com, I'm Matt Lodi.