World Series victory, the Los Angeles Dodgers have started the season 8-0, following Shohei Ohtani’s walk-off home run in Wednesday’s thrilling 6-5 win over the Atlanta Braves. They are the first defending World Series champions to start the season with an 8-0 record.

The new players were present for the nightly pregame ceremonies honoring last year’s World Series. But they could only watch when their teammates got their rings.

As the Los Angeles Dodgers reach rarified air for a defending World Series champion, the Atlanta Braves are left to assess all that has gone wrong as the teams get set to meet in the finale of their three-game series on Wednesday.

The Braves' opening West Coast swing has been a disaster, but Matt Olson, Austin Riley and rookie catcher Drake Baldwin have all hit into extremely tough luck early on.

It's exceedingly frustrating to navigate all the back-and-forth with this year's Braves schedule. Here's our effort to lay it all out.

Its Wednesday, April 2 and the Braves (0-6) are in LA to take on the Dodgers (7-0) in the finale of their series. Bryce Elder is slated to take the mound for Atlanta against Blake Snell for Los Angeles Last night,

Struggling at the plate to start the season, the Atlanta Braves also lost a key player to injury and another to PED-caused suspension.

The Los Angeles Dodgers (7-0) will try to maintain their unbeaten start to the season when they host the winless Atlanta Braves (0-6) on Wednesday. Los Angeles won a pair of games against Chicago in Tokyo and swept its series against Detroit over the weekend before winning the first two games of this series.

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