Dustin can return after 22 months when Dodgers starts the 7-0 season

Los Angeles – the first seven games Los Angeles Dodgers“The 2025 season saw them playing on two continents, facing two ruling CY Young Award winners, and navigating two sophisticated pre -champions.

The traditional opening day of Major League baseball was only five days ago, and yet it seems as if Dodgers had already done it – except for losing.

They came from behind on Tuesday evening to beat the disappearing Atlanta Braves 3-1 and improve to 7-0, bindings 1933 New York Yankees From Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig for the best beginning of the season for the ruling champion. Only two teams Dodgers began the season for longer winning lanes and both cases – in 1940 and 1955 – occurred when franchise was still in Brooklyn.

Current Dodgers did this by exceeding both Pull and Chris Sale. Despite the beginning of the season, they did this more than 5,000 miles away, in Japan. They did it with either Mookie Betts or Freddie Freeman Or – as was the case with the Tokyo dome – both of them miss more than half the time. And they did it and at the same time changed the pressure and expectations of one of the most star lists in the history of their sport.

“All those things. It’s hard to win a handful of ball games, let alone all,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, whose team stayed just before 6-0 San Diego Padres in the National League in the West. “I think we are doing a really good reset work.”

Dodgers must still click. However, the topic has evolved through their first seven competitions: solid pitching and timely affection. Their 0.864 OPS with runners in the scoring position is the seventh highest in large societies, although they have not yet revealed their best line -up. Their 2,25 Era ranks fourth, although Roki Sasaki and Tanner Scott – Two of their biggest offseason pitching acquisitions- dealt with early fighting.

On Tuesday Dustin May He took the hill for the first time in more than 22 months and set the tone early, limited Braves to an undeserved run – to a sweeping throw from Betts, while trying to turn a double game – through five shifts.

27. May grabbed fifth place in the rotation of Dodgers Tony gonolin He was late in the spring in the spring. It’s not so long ago who wasn’t sure if it would ever come back. In July, the Flexor tendon and the revision of Tommy John were about a month after returning from the surgery. Then a piece of salad in the Arizona restaurant was stuck in his throat, which is a strange event that caused a serious tear in the esophagus, sent it to an emergency room, required abdominal surgery and ended the season 2024 before the start.

May began Tuesday’s trip by setting off each of the first three doughs he faced. Braves, who at the start of the season 0-6 scored only nine runs, did not do anything else in the next four shifts. At the end of it, May felt pleased to learn that his devastating arsenal-hell -s sweeping, bowling balls and fastball from 90. Flight-set playing the Hitters of the main league.

Mostly, however, he felt relief.

May experienced his nerves when he made his debut in 2019 and made his debut in 2019 in 2019, and in 2020 he moved in World Series, but he said, “much harder”.

“The debut, the world series and all these things are – unexpected, but you’re there at the moment and everything is happening, you know it comes,” May said. “This – I didn’t know if I was going to come back, so it was a huge, huge relief.”

May left after 81 playgrounds with a 1-0 deficit, but Dodgers finally broke through the sale a shift later. And the decisive wound was again provided by Betts who joined with the sale to win the World Series as a member Boston Red Sox In 2018. With one and no outdoors at the bottom of the sixth, Betts got over the album 1-1 rider and lofted over the fence of the left field for his third Homer in four games, all of which followed in running.

Three Dodgers experts – Alex shutters, Blake Trains And Scott, who built an encouraging ninth shift – did the rest, so Braves MLB was a lonely team without victory.

Betts joined Freeman and Shohei eraAmong other things, when determining an early tone for these Dodgers, either through their words or their actions. The news has been consistent since the beginning of the spring training: what they achieved last autumn claims that the first full -fledged championship since 1988 does not matter. The persecution of record records of victory in the regular season is irrelevant. Everything that matters, Betts and others were constantly preaching, maximizes them every day. And for the first seven games 162, Dodgers have.

“They’re not just for a single ring,” Outfield Dodgers first year Dodgers Michael Comfort said. “They’re hungry. I think it’s just rooted in a group of guys they had last year. They made a point, for new people who are here to understand thinking there and win every day, don’t take any days and just get after it.