The Phillies’ opening day beat down of the Atlanta Braves was hopefully a glimpse at what’s to come over the next six months. Andrew McCutchen, Rhys Hoskins and Maikel Franco all homered.
Aside from a rough second inning, Aaron Nola was dazzling, as always. Jean Segura out-hustled what could have been an easy ground-out and Bryce Harper was intimidating enough that the Braves decided they wanted to face Hoskins with the bases loaded and no outs instead of pitch to him (Spoiler alert: That strategy didn’t work out for them.