PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks’ first starting lineup of the 2025 season is here, and it starts with Ketel Marte at the top.
Marte will lead off against Chicago Cubs left-hander Justin Steele at Chase Field, with first pitch set for 7:10 p.m. Zac Gallen is the Opening Day starter for Arizona.
Marte routinely led off against lefties last year when he finished third in the NL MVP race. The switch-hitter annihilated southpaws with a .342 average and 1.080 OPS last year. He also crushed the baseball in the first inning with 13 home runs, third most in MLB.
Corbin Carroll slots in second with Lourdes Gurriel Jr. third.
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Newcomer Josh Naylor will take on the cleanup spot, which was occupied by Christian Walker last season. Manager Torey Lovullo this spring has been open about the possibility of more flexible lineups based on what he’s seeing.
“I was very rigid on Christian Walker fourth last year,” Lovullo said on Wednesday. “You might see some clusters moving around a little bit, not one to nine or one to eight, but you might see three to four, or four to five, or five to six, something like that. Those two or three groups of hitters moving and shuffling based on the matchups and how they’re doing at the time.”
Jake McCarthy will bat eighth and start in center field over Alek Thomas. Thomas entered last season as Arizona’s starting center fielder but was placed on the injured list during the opening week. McCarthy eventually ran with the role even when Thomas returned, and how the club handles playing time in center field was a question coming into this year.
“I want everybody to play, let’s put it that way,” Lovullo said. “We need all of our five outfielders to get in the field to play, get at-bats. … They’re all very dynamic, and they’re all going to help us win games in different ways.”
Catcher Gabriel Moreno slots into the five-hole as a player to watch in this matchup. He is 7-for-8 with three doubles against Steele in his career.
The Diamondbacks face left-hander Shota Imanaga on Friday, so the lineup could look very similar.
The Cubs enter Chase Field 0-2, having been swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in Tokyo to start the year. Three-time All-Star Kyle Tucker headlines the batting order after coming over in a trade with the Houston Astros.
The Diamondbacks have won two of their last three home openers in dramatic fashion, from the National Beer Day walk-off from Seth Beer against San Diego in 2022 to the 14-run third inning against Colorado last year.
Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day lineup
2B Ketel Marte RF Corbin Carroll LF Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 1B Josh Naylor C Gabriel Moreno 3B Eugenio Suarez DH Randal Grichuk CF Jake McCarthy SS Geraldo Perdomo
SP Zac Gallen
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