In baseball, we learn that sometimes how you start the season is not always how you are going to end. A team always has the capabilities to fix their season at any point in time however, you must start the season on the right foot in order to acheive ultimate success. Some stories are better than others as even the best of the MLB predictions cannot always predict the kind of starts these teams will end up having. We have seen in the past teams who have had a rough start in April end up in the playoff race when it is decided in late September. The Mets last year started the season 0-5 and came all the way back to be within two games of the world series. The Washington Nationals are another example who up to May 2019 had a 19-31 record but had a historic turnaround later in the season, ultimately culminating in their first ever World Series championship.  

It is a long season, 162 games to be exact so just becaue a team is not perfoming well now doesn’t mean their future is in the gutter. However sometimes the deepest of pits are the hardest to escape. One team in particular who has yet to record their first win is the Atlanta Braves who are winless in a 7 game stretch to open the 2025 season. They have been swept twice by the Padres and Dodgers who surprisingly both undefeated. The Braves are going into the season without Ronald Acuna Jr as their rightfielder who won’t end up returning to the Braves until late May. No team in MLB history has ever made the playoffs after starting 0-7 It’s been 42 years since a team that started 0-7 finished with a winning record. History is certainly not on the Braves side as there are only two other times in history where a team who started 0-7 had a record above .500 to end the season. The 1983 Houston Astros hold the record for most wins with 85-77 after starting the season an abysmal 0-7. As for Atlanta who has made the dance every year since 2018 and won it all in 2021 are facing their first skid in the road since 2016 where similar to 2025 as both teams were swept in the first two series. That 2016 team ended up finishing with a 68-93 record however that team was not comprised of much star talent, besides the likes of Freddie Freeman the 2016 team serves no match for the plethora of all star talent the 2025 team has. This past week has been a franchise low for the Braves as the nine runs they tailed through Tuesday set a record for the fewest through the first six games of any season. Much of the futility could be blamed on going 1-for-34 with runners in scoring position during these first six games.

This unlucky situation has affected the players mentality too much, records have not been kind for the club as the top dogs on this club have failed with the biggest of expectations. Austin Riley has gone 0-for-6 with three strikeouts w/RISP. Matt Olson is 1-for-6 in these situations and Ozuna’s early value has been diminished as he’s gone 1-for-5 with three strikeouts when he’s come to the plate in a run-producing situation. Its an ugly and pitful mess that no team should ever have to face. It is looking more and more likely the Braves chances of making it back to the big dance for the 8th consecutive feature is in grave danger. 

Over the past 7 games the Braves have lost, they’ve only managed 14 runs, with a batting average of just .151 and 33 total hits. They were also shut out for the second day in a row. As manager Brian Snitker put it, he wouldn’t wish this kind of start on his worst enemy. Their 0-7 start is just the cherry on top of all their baseball horrors.

This team has taken major blows, starting with the bullpen they opened the season with, which has already blown three saves. The Braves’ next two setup men, Hector Neris and Jesse Chavez, barely pitched before both were DFA’d.

And not to forget — their biggest offseason addition, Jurickson Profar, is out for the next 80 games after testing positive for steroids and failing his drug test.

The Braves are also without their second-best starter, Reynaldo López, who developed shoulder inflammation. He’s heading for surgery next week and will be sidelined for the next two to three months.

To top off the misery, the Braves had a 5–0 lead against LA on Wednesday night, which was ripped apart by a Shohei Ohtani walk-off home run, blowing the lead and losing 6–5, ending their season-opening road trip as the only winless team left in baseball.

However, as bleak as things are for Atlanta, things are looking a lot brighter in California.

Things could not be better for the LA Dodgers, who are coming off their first World Series win since 2020—and their first full-season title since 1988. Weirdly enough, both the 2024 and 1988 Dodgers beat the Mets in the NLCS to get there. Sad but true.

Anyway, things couldn’t be brighter for the Palm Springs Los Angeles Dodgers. Winning the World Series wasn’t enough—they came into this season like they had even more to prove. After signing nearly the entire free agent class—including stars like Blake Snell, Teoscar Hernández, Michael Conforto, Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates, and Roki Sasaki—just a year after giving Shohei Ohtani a $700 million deal, it seems like this club will never stop spending.

The Dodgers are that one team where consistent spending translates to consistent playoff success. They’re the kind of team every fan wants to root for—and the kind every other fan hates to root against.

Their 8–0 The start is the best in franchise history since 1955, and also the best start ever in the year after winning a World Series. And that ’55 team? The only one Jackie Robinson ever won a title with. To match that kind of history? Oh boy. This isn’t shaping up to be a fun season if your team isn’t the LA Dodgers.

What’s scary is… this team doesn’t even feel like it’s playing its best baseball yet. The bats are just starting to heat up, players are easing back into rhythm. They’ve trailed in 6 of their first 8 games. Their starters haven’t even gone into the sixth inning yet. Mookie missed three games. Freddie Freeman missed five and is now on the IL.

But good teams win. Great teams find ways to come back and win when they shouldn’t. That’s exactly what the Dodgers have been doing. They nearly dropped their first game of the season to the Braves, falling behind 5–0… until they rallied. And in the bottom of the 9th, Shohei Ohtani stepped up and blasted a walk-off solo shot, handing Atlanta their seventh straight loss.

And just like that… the Dodgers’ dream of 162–0 lives on.

The Braves are spiraling with an 0–7 start, mounting injuries, and a clubhouse full of question marks, the Dodgers are riding an 8–0 start high that feels more like a warning shot to the rest of the league than a celebration. One team can’t seem to stop the bleeding, the other can’t stop winning — even when things aren’t going perfectly. Baseball might be a 162-game grind, but right now, Atlanta looks stuck in quicksand while LA is sprinting toward another World Series victory. If this is just the beginning, then the Braves are in for a long season, and hopefully one that ends in September, and the Dodgers? Yikes, they might just be getting started. At this rate, the playoffs are pointless, might as while crown the Dodgers the 2025 World Series before things take a turn for the worse.