{"id":2350957,"date":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2350957"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","slug":"braves-take-first-loss-of-the-season-against-royals-to-end-first-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/braves-take-first-loss-of-the-season-against-royals-to-end-first-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves take first loss of the season against Royals to end first series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Well, if you were hoping for a similar result as last night\u2019s game, where the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.com\/braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Braves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Atlanta Braves&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Braves<\/a> would rally late in the ninth to get ahead, today wasn\u2019t that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.com\/royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kansas City Royals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kansas City Royals&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kansas City Royals<\/a> have avoided getting swept by the Braves, winning their first game of the year to cap off Opening Week with a score of 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Royals first scored three straight runs in three straight innings and first appeared on the board in the third after a run from Nick Loftin after a RBI single from Bobby Witt Jr., Loftin would go on to score another run in the top of the fifth after a homer from Carter Jensen in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As for the Braves\u2019 offense, they couldn\u2019t get a runner in scoring position until the bottom of the fifth inning first time braves runner was in scoring position was when Ozzie Albies singled on a line drive to center field and made it to third base due to an RBI single from Dominic Smith. This wouldn\u2019t result in any progress, though, as Jorge Mateo would ground out to end the inning. Mike Yastrzemski would be the next player to reach second base with a leadoff double in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was in the bottom of the eighth where the Braves would see some run-action with a solo-shot from Drake Baldwin that would put the Braves on the Board (4-1) with his second homer of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you were hoping for a similar result as last night\u2019s game, where the Atlanta Braves would rally late in the ninth to get ahead, today wasn\u2019t that day. The Kansas City Royals have avoided getting swept by the Braves, winning their first game of the year to cap off Opening Week with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2350958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[344503,91466,456188,360072,456186,455920,455393,455395,279830,456187,456185,322264,347149,455688,77699,456184,351123,402966,22091,456183],"class_list":["post-2350957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-bryce-elder","tag-carter-jensen","tag-didier-fuentes","tag-dominic-smith","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-grant-holmes","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jacob-lopez","tag-jorge-mateo","tag-mike-yastrzemski","tag-nick-loftin","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-salvador-perez","tag-scoring-position","tag-the-athletics","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-the-royals","tag-third-inning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Braves-take-first-loss-of-the-season-against-Royals-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350959,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350957\/revisions\/2350959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}