{"id":648437,"date":"2026-03-28T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:01:46","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-opening-day-victory-additional-tv-deals-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648437\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Opening Day victory, additional TV deals, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Atlanta Braves began the 2026 season on a high note after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-scores\/128142\/atlanta-braves-kansas-city-royals-recap-final-score-chris-sale-drake-baldwin-ozzie-albies-michael-harris-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday\u2019s 6-0 win<\/a> over the Kansas City Royals. Ozzie Albies, Drake Baldwin, and Michael Harris II joined in on the fun and each homered. Together, the Braves recorded 11 hits and capitalized on the Royals\u2019 weak spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the other side of the ball, leather was flashed and the pitching staff showed up big. Chris Sale earned the start, and though a bit shaky in the beginning, he finished the night allowing just three hits through six innings. He walked three and struck out six. The bullpen came to play, too, and allowed just two more hits after Sale\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Braves go for the series win tonight at 7:15 ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Additional television deals continue to be announced, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/128100\/fubo-to-carry-bravesvision-on-multi-year-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fubo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-news\/128112\/bravesvision-is-officially-on-directv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DIRECTV<\/a> are now carrying BravesVision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Gwinnett Stripers have announced their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-prospects\/128089\/gwinnett-stripers-release-initial-2026-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opening Day roster<\/a>, and it does not include Jhancarlos Lara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/mlb-news\/128091\/jason-heyward-announces-retirement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Heyward<\/a> has announced his retirement after a 16 year career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Los Angeles Dodgers have <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/article\/clayton-kershaw-joins-dodgers-front-office-as-special-assistant-000525522.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hired Clayton Kershaw<\/a> as a special assistant, where he will assist the front office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Braves began the 2026 season on a high note after Friday\u2019s 6-0 win over the Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-648437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-news","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116306471405227368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}