Atlanta Braves at San Diego Padres

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Atlanta Braves

0-4, 0-4 Away

Final
0 - 5

San Diego Padres

4-0, 4-0 Home

Pivetta brilliant in debut for Padres, who beat Braves 5-0 for 4-game sweep

Machado's bare-handed play starts incredible double play

The Padres are 4-0 for the first time since 1984, when they made their first World Series appearance. The Braves were shut out a second straight game and are 0-4 for the first time since 2021. The Braves haven't been swept in a season-opening, four-game series since 1980 at Cincinnati, and in a four-game series in San Diego since 1979.

The Braves have lost six straight games at Petco Park, including last season's two-game sweep in the wild-card round.

Pivetta (1-0), who signed a four-year contract in February, faced the minimum 21 batters. He allowed a a leadoff single in the third to Orlando Arcia, who was forced out at second. Pivetta struck out four and walked none.

The Braves sent the minimum 27 batters to the plate. Marcell Ozuna drew Atlanta’s only walk, off Jason Adam leading off the eighth. Adam and Jeremiah Estrada each threw one hitless inning.

Machado left Saturday night's game after the fourth inning with a cramp in his right calf that flared up during an at-bat. He doubled to the base of the right field wall with one out in the first on Sunday night to bring in Fernando Tatis Jr., who hit a leadoff double on a checked swing against AJ Smith-Shawver and advanced on Luis Arraez's groundout.

Xander Bogaerts, Jackson Merrill and Brandon Lockridge each hit an RBI double and Tatis singled in a run before getting thrown out trying to stretch it into a double.

Smith-Shawver allowed two runs and six hits in four innings.

Key moment Tatis checked his swing on a 2-0, 97-mph fastball and ended up with a leadoff double to right.

Key stat Reigning NL batting champ Arraez of the Padres is 0 for 13 to open the season.

Up next Braves RHP Grant Holmes is scheduled to start Monday night at the Los Angeles Dodgers. Padres RHP Luis Ortiz is set to go Monday night at home against Cleveland.

This version has been corrected to show this is the first time San Diego has started 4-0 start since 1984.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	De La Cruz struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	De La Cruz hit for Tromp
	9th Inning	Kelenic struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Arcia struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Estrada relieved Adam
	8th Inning	Tatis Jr. reached on infield single to shortstop, Lockridge scored, Tatis Jr. out stretching at second.

Statistics

ATL		SD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	9
8	Strikeouts	9
0	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
1	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	4
1	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
26	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
4	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	5
9	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
107	Pitches	146
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
1	Total Bases	14
27	Plate Appearances	37
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
0	Extra Base Hits	5
-2.1	Runs Created	6.5
.038	Batting Average	.290
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.038	Slugging Percentage	.452
.038	Secondary Average	.484
.074	On Base Percentage	.405
.113	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.857
1.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
-2.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.6
1.0	Batter Rating	43.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.96	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.95
.000	Isolated Power	.161
0.13	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.037	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.162
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.194
0.0	Runs Produced	10.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.1	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.4
53.0	MLB Rating	86.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0