Dodgers blast sluggish Braves to extend win record to 6-0

Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run home run in the first inning, Tyler Glasnow went five scoreless and the Los Angeles Dodgers remained perfect on the season with a 6-1 home victory over the sluggish Atlanta Braves on Monday.

Hernandez had two hits and three runs scored after taking over the third spot in the order from Freddie Freeman, who aggravated his surgically repaired right ankle by slipping in the shower and had the day off against his former team.

Enrique Hernandez also hit a home run, while Michael Conforto and Will Smith added RBI hits for the Dodgers, which improved to 6-0 on the season.

The Braves not only dropped their fifth consecutive game to start the season, but they saw their scoreless streak reach 29 innings, before breaking through in the eighth on a home run from Michael Harris II.

In his first start of the season, Atlanta right-hander Grant Holmes (0-1) gave up four runs on four hits over four innings with four walks and three strikeouts.

The Braves were without outfielder Jurickson Profar, who was given an 80-day PED suspension Monday.

Bryan De La Cruz started in left field for Profar and went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.

The Dodgers were off and running when Teoscar Hernandez hit his second home run of the season in the opening inning for a 2-0 lead. In the third, Conforto had an RBI double and Tommy Edman hit a sacrifice fly to bring in a run and stretch the lead to four.

Smith had an RBI single in the fifth that put the Dodgers at 5-0, before Enrique Hernandez hit his second home run of the season in the sixth.

The Braves got on the scoreboard with Harris' homer in the eighth off Dodgers left-hander Tanner Scott.

In his first start of the season, Glasnow (1-0) gave up two hits over his five scoreless innings, with three walks and eight strikeouts.

Los Angeles is 6-0 to open a season for the first time since 1981, when they won the World Series.

Padres on a roll

Gavin Sheets drove in four runs Monday night and Kyle Hart earned his first major league win as the San Diego Padres opened the season 5-0 for the first time in franchise history, with a 7-2 victory over the visiting Cleveland Guardians.

Making his first major league appearance in five years, Hart (1-0) lasted five innings, allowing five hits and two runs, with a walk and four strikeouts. Four relievers took care of the rest for San Diego, which has put up a plus-15 run differential in its hot start.

Luis L Ortiz (0-1) absorbed the loss after allowing seven runs on nine hits in four innings and two-thirds, walking four and fanning two. His biggest problem was Sheets, who touched him for two-run doubles in a four-run second inning and a three-run fifth.

Ortiz was his own worst enemy in the second. After Jackson Merrill led off with a single, Ortiz filled the bases by walking Jake Cronenworth and Xander Bogaerts. Sheets doubled off the right field wall for a 2-1 lead. Jason Heyward followed with a sac fly, and Fernando Tatis Jr added a two-out RBI single.

In the fifth, Sheets delivered his second two-bagger, a two-out shot that sliced into the left field corner to score Cronenworth and Bogaerts. Heyward capped the rally with his first hit as a Padre, an RBI double off the wall in right-center.

Reuters