The Braves open the 2026 season at 7:15 p.m. Friday against the Royals at Truist Park.
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Royals beat the Braves 4-1 to take the series finale.
Braves next welcome the A's for a three-game series starting at 7:15 p.m. Monday at Truist Park.
Drake Baldwin helps the Braves avoid a shutout with a solo homer with two out in the eighth. Royals leading 4-1 after Baldwin's second homer of the season.
Carter Jensen plates a run with an RBI sacrifice fly in the eighth, putting the Royals up 4-0.
Braves starter Grant Holmes works five innings Sunday and leaves after 76 pitches. Holmes allowed three earned runs on five hits and two walks. He also struck out four.
Didier Fuentes on to pitch the top of the sixth.
Vinnie Pasquantino gives the Royals a 3-0 lead with his two-out, two-strike RBI single in the fifth.
Braves starter Grant Holmes nearly got out of the inning after a lead-off double and one-out walk before Pasquantino lined his hit to right.
Royals catcher Carter Jensen hits a solo home run with one out in the fourth. Jensen turned around a 3-1 fastball from Braves starter Grant Holmes and planted it just over the wall in right field.
Royals up 2-0 in the fourth.
Bobby Witt Jr. drives a two-out RBI single to right to give the Royals a 1-0 lead in the third inning.
Grant Holmes is on the mound for the Braves at 1:35 p.m. Sunday in the series finale against the Royals.
The Braves are looking to start a season 3-0 for the first time since starting 5-0 in 2015.
Braves desiginated hitter Dominic Smith hits a walk-off grand slam to give the Braves a 6-2 win over the Royals.
Braves are 2-0.
Michael Harris II lines an RBI single off Royals closer Carlos Estevez to tie the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth.
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