The Atlanta Braves ' 2025 season got off to a dismal start, as they dropped their first four games of the series against the San Diego Padres, including a brutal 7-0 shutout in the finale. The team struggled in almost every aspect of the game,

Nick Pivetta threw seven innings of one-hit ball in a brilliant debut with the Padres and Manny Machado returned to the lineup and hit an RBI double as San Diego beat the Atlanta Braves 5-0 on Sunday night to sweep a season-opening,

San Diego Padres star pitcher Nick Pivetta made a good impression in his first start of the 2025 MLB season. Pivetta held the Braves scoreless through seven innings of work en route to the Padres’ 5-0 win over Atlanta. The 32-year-old allowed one hit while tossing four strikeouts.

The Atlanta Braves are off to one of the worst imaginable starts this season and it just shows they had the wrong scapegoat in 2024.

The Braves head to Los Angeles to take on the Dodgers for the second half of this West Coast road trip. Grant Holmes will take the mound, hoping to give the team a chance to pick up its first win of the season. First pitch is set for 10:10 p.m. EDT.

Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar was suspended for 80 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for a fertility drug that's classified as a performance-enhancing substance.

Oh, it probably won't matter, but it's worth pondering that the most significant feat of this opening weekend was the Padres sweeping four games against Atlanta, marking six consecutive victories over them at Petco Park, dating to their wild-card steamrolling during last year's playoffs.

Padres pitcher Nick Pivetta tossed 7.0 scoreless innings against the Braves on Sunday, helping his new team close out a season-opening sweep in the process.