Veni, vidi vici. They came, they saw, and they conquered. That’s the current mindset watching the Dodgers, and it was in full display as they easily handled the struggling Braves, winning 6-1 in Tyler Glasnow’s first regular season start of 2025.

When Glasnow is on, he is dominant to the level that it genuinely feels unfair for the opposing team, and it looked like we were headed that way right from the first inning. The Dodgers’ starter needed only seven pitches to strike out the first two hitters of the game, Michael Harris II and Austin Riley.

Glasnow would go on to toss five scoreless, and in excess caution, rightfully so, Dave Roberts didn’t allow him to go back out for the sixth and try to get that quality start. While the Braves didn’t put up any runs, there were a couple of threatening moments as Glasnow’s command wavered for a bit.

After a dominant first, the Braves got two men on in the second, both via walks, as Glasnow delivered non-competitive free passes. What looked like not that big of a deal fly ball from Drake Baldwin started to carry and carry, and it almost went out for a three-run shot. Luckily for the Dodgers, at night and early in the season, it didn’t have enough juice to go over the wall. The only other threatening moment for the Braves was a two-out, two-on situation for Austin Riley in the fifth, but he proved no match for Glasnow, who earned his eighth and final strikeout. Normally, a guy who throws more sliders than curves, Glasnow leaned on the curve tonight as his primary breaking pitch, and with great success, earning seven whiffs in 10 swings.

Offensively, a word that comes up with the Dodgers often these days is depth, but I’m growing to dislike it because depth usually implies solid quality and not high-end consistency. The Dodgers are redefining depth in a way that you can sit Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman on back-to-back nights and still flourish, as they did with a combined 13 runs in these last two games. The six runs against the Braves don’t represent a slugfest, but with the way Glasnow was pitching, it might as well have been one.

Teoscar Hernández made sure early that old friend Grant Holmes wouldn’t have a comfortable night, taking him deep for a two-run shot in the first inning. Later on, it was the middle of the order showing up, with each of Michael Conforto, Will Smith, and Tommy Edman earning an RBI.

Leading big by the time the bullpen came into the game, and coming off a day off, the Dodgers opted to still give some work to high-leverage arms, using Alex Vesia and Tanner Scott for an inning each.

Scott was the one responsible for letting the Braves end what was, at that point, a 29-inning scoreless streak as Harris went yard off the Dodgers’ star lefty reliever. However, that would be all the offense Atlanta would produce.

Game particulars

Home runs: Teoscar Hernández (2), Kiké Hernández (1); Michael Harris II (1)

WP — Tyler Glasnow (1-0): 5 IP, 2 hits, 3 walks, 8 strikeouts

LP — Grant Holmes (0-1): 4 IP, 4 hits, 4 runs, 4 walks, 3 strikeouts

Up next

Coming off a lost year due to an elbow injury and also a torn esophagus that required surgery, Dustin May will be the final member of the rotation to make his regular-season debut on Tuesday night (7:10 p.m., SportsNet LA). Perhaps for the first time this season, the Dodgers will face a significant pitching disadvantage on the mound, with the Braves sending out reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Chris Sale.