Braves fall behind early in loss to Marlins

"The first thing, I was thinking, bad luck", Ozuna said. Tom Koehler gets the ball, and he is 0-0 with a 1.80 ERA and four strikeouts this season. And in a 162-game season, not much you do in the first 30 days will have a long-term effect on where you wind up in late September. Three singles, two sac flies, and two walks later, the score was 3-0, Marlins.

Straily, meanwhile, was mowing down the hapless-looking Braves.

This is the third straight road series for the Braves.

Straily only lasted 3.1 innings in his first start of the 2017 campaign against the Nationals.

Bartolo Colon (0-1) needed 35 pitches to get through the first inning.

He handed the ball to fellow starter Mike Foltynewicz. And it didn't really scamper into our lives, but into Marlins Park to disrupt the game.

As noted, the Braves did waste a great scoring chance in the seventh. One would suspect he might keep running alongside the track.

That seemed like a good time for Don Mattingly, the Miami skipper, to pull a lefty out of his bullpen, with Freeman and Markakis coming up.

Be honest. You've grown exhausted of Marlins Man.

The Braves went down relatively quietly after that, and A.J. Rams struck out two to close out the game in the ninth.

In 110 plate appearances in April of 2014 (and the last day in March, to be fair), Ozuna mustered 31 (!) hits, hit four bombs and drove in 16 runs, slashing.310/.364/.480 with a robust 139 wRC+.

Brandon Phillips was the only fearless with multiple hits, collecting two doubles.

Schedule to pitch game two of the series for Atlanta is Jamie Garcia (0-1). Dee Gordon and Christian Yelich each had three hits for the Fish. The Braves allowed three unearned runs each Saturday and Sunday in losses at Pittsburgh, and are last in the majors in runs scored (18).

The Braves wrap up this unusual, truncated two-game set with another night game tomorrow, where they'll perhaps get a chance to live again.

The Braves will officially open up their new stadium, SunTrust Park, on Friday against the San Diego Padres.

It's Rally Cat, the new star of the Miami Marlins.