The Atlanta Braves dispatched of the Miami Marlins in last night’s home opener. The Braves started the season 0-7 on a brutal seven-game road trip in California. They had Thursday off to travel home and got some home cookin’ as the bats came to life behind Spencer Schwellenbach‘s outstanding outing.

Schwellenbach Spectacular in Home Opener

Schwellenbach had pinpoint command and utilized all six of his pitches to keep Marlins hitters off-balance and guessing all night. They mostly guessed wrong. He took a perfect game into the fifth inning.

Schwellenabch located his four-seam fastball wherever he wanted. He was routinely spotting it a few inches off the outside to lefties, busting them in with breaking balls, and freezing them for strike three with fastballs over the outer half of the plate.

Schwellenbach ended the night with 99 pitches over eight innings, allowing just two hits, striking out eight, and issuing no free passes. He threw 42 fastballs (53%), 17 splitters, 15 sliders, 11 curveballs, 9 sinkers, and 5 cutters at the Marlins last night.

Spencer Schwellenbach, K'ing the Side in the 4th.

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— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 5, 2025

Schwellenbach induced 23 swings and misses over his eight spectacular innings of work. His fastball topped out at 98.2 mph. Schwellenbach allowed just six hard-hit balls all night. Meanwhile, Michael Harris II had five hard-hit balls on his own.

Ozuna’s Confusing Home Run

In total, the Braves had 17 hard-hit balls on the night en route to a 10-0 shutout. Marcell Ozuna went 3-5 with a homer and 3 RBI. He is now hitting .286 on the season with a 1.035 OPS. Ozuna and Olson went back to back in the seventh inning, with some confusion on Ozuna’s homer.

Ozuna took an 0-1 sinker inside to left-center. Dane Myers leaped at the wall and the ball appeared to bounce off of his glove and left fielder Griffin Conine caught it off the ricochet. After an uncomfortably long review, they determined the ball bounced off the top of the wall and was, in fact, a home run. Ozuna never bought into the Tom-foolery, as he kept trotting around the bases despite Conine producing the ball.

It became quite clear that it was a home run very early on. The Braves’ broadcast crew declared it a home run almost immediately and then sat in amazement at what was taking so long for the review to be completed, as the ball very clearly bounced off the concrete behind the padding. We speculated that the guy assigned to the Braves game had a bathroom emergency. This was not confirmed.

If you listen to the Marlins’ broadcast in the clip below, they were not as sure as the Braves. I think they were trying to talk themselves into a false sense of hope. In reality, they had no hope last night.

Marcell Ozuna – Atlanta Braves (1) pic.twitter.com/xtMvaMvhiH

— MLB HR Videos (@MLBHRVideos) April 5, 2025

Olson and Ozuna go Back-to-Back

Matt Olson followed Ozuna with a homer in the next at-bat. Olson had been hitting the ball hard this season but unfortunately, he wasn’t getting results. Last night, he said “screw it” and clobbered a 3-0 fastball into the stands.

Matt Olson – Atlanta Braves (1)
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— MLB HR Videos (@MLBHRVideos) April 5, 2025

Braves’ Bats Come Alive

Austin Riley got in on the action, going 2-4 with two RBI, and Ozzie Albies had a couple of hits and a ribby. Albies also nearly missed a homer in the first inning. Michael Harris II had three his out of the leadoff spot and showed off the wheels with some great baserunning on a bloop single into left. Harris took off from first and beat the short throw at third base.

Nick Allen went 1-4 and currently leads the team with a .333 average. Bryan De La Cruz had a solid night, going 2-3 with a walk before being lifted for Eli White. Drake Baldwin also went 1-4, bringing his season average to .091.

Jarred Kelenic was the only Braves starter not to notch a hit. He went 0-4 with three strikeouts.

The Braves look to continue to build momentum tonight as they send AJ Smith-Shawver to the mound against Cal Quantrill at 7:15 PM ET.

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