The Braves showed everything we wanted to see on Saturday. Ian Anderson, who had struggled in his last outing of spring and his first regular season start, had a great performance. His only real blemish was a solo home run he gave up to Jurickson Profar that wasn’t even particularly well hit (.280 xBA), and he struck out 7 in 5.2 innings, only walking 1 and allowing 2 hits. The Braves bullpen was very good, with Collin McHugh, Will Smith, and Kenley Jansen breezing through Padres hitters, minus a home run given up by Smith. The offense was good pretty much all around, as the Braves hit three home runs, which they would normally get more than three runs off of, along with Manny Pina hitting a ball that was over the outfield wall, but was robbed by Trent Grisham.
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