2025 LA Dodgers: Braves @ Dodgers (4/2/25)

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00:00Two teams that have started out in very different directions.

00:04The Dodgers at 7-0, everything has gone right.

00:07Perfect, really.

00:07I mean, is it possible this team is better than advertised?

00:10The opposite story for what's happening in Atlanta.

00:13They have some injuries they've dealt with.

00:15They got a PED setback this week that hurt.

00:18And by the way, they're still looking for their first win of the year.

00:21Sounds weird to say.

00:22With Blake going against the Braves lineup right now,

00:25there's a lot of panic on their offensive side.

00:27So if they come out swinging and trying to rake their way out of this slump,

00:31it's going to be a good equation for Blake Stout.

00:34Second walk of the inning.

00:35And the Braves have first and second now with two gone.

00:38They'll bring up Brian De La Cruz.

00:41Grounded to third.

00:42Taken by Muncie.

00:44Oh, it gets by Hernandez!

00:47And the Braves are going to strike first.

00:50On the throwing air by the Dodger, third baseman.

00:53That is Max Muncie over at third base.

00:56And you take this any way that you can get it.

00:58It looks like it should be a routine play.

01:01It is somewhat of a long throw.

01:02But you can see the short hop and no Freddie Freeman over at first base.

01:06And Kike Hernandez can't come up with a pick.

01:09Allen to left field.

01:11That's going to get down.

01:13And it's going to roll to the wall.

01:16De La Cruz is being waved home.

01:18He is tagged out at the plate.

01:23But the Braves do get another one.

01:26And they take a 2-0 lead before the Dodgers ever grab the backs.

01:30When Bryce Elder last started, it was last Friday against the Charlotte Knights in a triple-A game.

01:37He gave up five earned runs in two and two-thirds innings.

01:41His assignment tonight is much tougher.

01:43The unbeaten defending World Series champion, Los Angeles Dodgers.

01:48Ground ball.

01:50The former MVP is bouncing out to first.

01:53One away.

01:55Ozzie was cheating up the middle.

01:57Braves will take that.

01:58A couple of ground outs from a pair of MVPs in Otani and Betts.

02:032-2.

02:04Got him.

02:05Great start for Bryce Elder.

02:07Had him flailing after a sinker away.

02:09And a great start for Elder and the Braves.

02:11It's a 1-2-3 bottom of the first.

02:13Stuart Fairchild.

02:14And the Braves just received a trade from the Reds.

02:16Now he's trying to lay down a butt, and he's going to reach Muncie with his second throwing error in his many innings.

02:24And that one was nowhere near.

02:26Well, defense can go into a slump just like you can when you're inside the batter's box.

02:30And that might be happening right now for Max Muncie, who's going to be in his own head after two errors, two innings into this game.

02:37Good butt here by Eli White.

02:38And White, with that great speed, easily beats Snell to the bag.

02:44A little small ball for the Atlanta Braves here in the second inning.

02:48So flip the lineup card over.

02:50They're at the corners with one out, and Ozzie Albies stands in.

02:53Ozzie out to center field.

02:56Pahez back.

02:57Reaching up.

02:58It gets over his glove.

03:01One run is in.

03:03White will go for third.

03:05Ozzie ends up at second.

03:06And the Braves finding some offense here in L.A. on a Wednesday night.

03:12Pahez does a pretty good job out there.

03:14He was close, but off the glove.

03:16What was amazing to me about that play, as that ball was hitting the glove of Andy Pahez,

03:21Eli White was standing on first base to tag.

03:22One hundred and eighty-two million dollar arm of Snell struggling here against Atlanta tonight.

03:28Olsen drives it to left.

03:30Conforto is back.

03:31It's over.

03:32It's headed off the wall.

03:35Two more come home.

03:37And it is five to nothing Atlanta, and we're only in the second inning.

03:42What a great at-bat right here from Matt Olsen.

03:45Again, fouling off those pitches that were up, but he goes back to the fastball again and elevated again.

03:51Again, this time not as much, and that gives Matt Olsen an opportunity to drive this,

03:55and it's just a beautiful piece of hitting.

03:58One-on-one out for Tommy Edmond, who started this season on a seven-game hitting streak.

04:03Ahead three-and-one.

04:05Elder deals.

04:06Edmond lifts the fly ball.

04:07Deep center field.

04:08White going back.

04:10He's out of room, and it's gone!

04:12The Dodgers of Shohei Otani and Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernandez are led by Tommy Edmond

04:19with four home runs in the early going.

04:22He's been looking for more pop from the left-handed side.

04:25The power is his natural right-handed side, but he has changed his posture at the plate

04:31to look for a little bit more bat speed, and he has found it.

04:35One away in the fourth inning, and here's Michael Conforto.

04:38Crushes this ball.

04:39Straight away center field.

04:41It is his home run, his first as a Dodger.

04:46It is a pretty swing, no matter what swing he's using, and this one had that sound.

04:52Wow.

04:53That's more his baseline swing that he can now have for a full season.

04:58Pahezan and Otani coming up, representing the tying run.

05:02And feeling dude, one for nine in this series.

05:07On a 2-2, Otani cracks the line, drives the right field, and the first two have reached

05:12in the fifth.

05:14Pahez chugging to third.

05:15He's in there!

05:17First to third, Andy Pahez.

05:20Otani does a nice job with his two-strike approach.

05:24De Los Santos last year, seventh worst in the big leagues as far as putting people away

05:29with two strikes.

05:31Tying run aboard.

05:32That's the go-ahead run.

05:34Three home runs this season, all of them to give the Dodgers the lead.

05:38Right back where it came from, and the Braves are going to get a huge double play.

05:43De Los Santos stuck his glove out on the line, and from Betts, how big was that?

05:49Everybody chipping in on the defense that we've talked about this season.

05:52The pitch, swung on and missed, struck him out.

05:56Hernandez, De Oscar Hernandez has the hat trick, three strikeouts.

06:00And a nice recovery by Ineo De Los Santos.

06:04Isel Iglesias has started to loosen.

06:06Well-rested.

06:07You wonder how many outs they're willing to go to him for here.

06:11Yet to slow Conforto in this game.

06:13He's got a home run.

06:13He's got two walks.

06:15He's reached five of his last seven times up.

06:19Cracked bat down the line.

06:21Here comes Fairchild.

06:22Won't get there.

06:23Perfect night continues for Conforto.

06:26Two walks, now two hits.

06:29And in a two-run game, the tying run is coming up.

06:32Even in a 2-0 count right now, Brian Snitker is not taking any chances.

06:37He knows his club needs the win, and Iglesias is coming on.

06:41Right now, the Braves is trying to get a win before heading back home.

06:44And right now, Iglesias is going to try to get a five-out save here against the Dodgers.

06:49The pitch up and in.

06:51And ball four.

06:53Tying runs on base in the bottom of the eighth.

06:57And Tommy Edmond, who leads the team with four home runs after a shot in the second.

07:03Chopper to first.

07:04Olsen to the bag.

07:06Two out.

07:07Tying run into scoring position.

07:09Great time for Max Muncy to bust out right here.

07:12Torpedo and all.

07:14Muncy two for 24 with 11 Ks.

07:17And a frustrating start to this season.

07:19And it's hit in the right center field, and Max Muncy has found it just in time.

07:26It's a game-tying double.

07:28The Braves go to the well and bring their closer in early.

07:31Max Muncy goes to the well, picks on this changeup, and yes, he threads the needle in there.

07:36Perfect to right center.

07:39Puts himself at second base as the winning run or the go-ahead run.

07:45It ties this game up.

07:46Five unanswered for the Dodgers to tie this game up into the bottom of the ninth.

07:52Chance to win it in walk-off fashion.

07:54And become the first defending champ in the history of baseball to start the season 8-0.

08:00Not that I'm not rooting for Andy Pahez to do something positive here, but it'd be nice walk-off if Otani hit one.

08:07Yeah, it would be pretty cool.

08:09And then his bobblehead late.

08:10Down and a high fastball.

08:13All right.

08:15All right.

08:16Here's Otani.

08:17Well, this would be fitting if it were to end right here and everyone on their feet at Dodger Stadium.

08:26Shohei Otani on his bobblehead night.

08:29High fly ball to center field.

08:32Harris is back.

08:34Otani!

08:36Inevitable!

08:37Ladies and gentlemen, embrace this.

08:43Embrace this man.

08:44Embrace this team this season.

08:48An 8-0 start for the defending champs.

08:51Unprecedented.

08:53Every single night, they do something that makes you say,

08:59Wow!

09:00How much fun is this?

09:03Eight down.

09:05154 to go.

09:07Dodger in six.

09:09Braves five.

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