Today’s a pretty slow day in Braves Country, as you could imagine considering that we’re about to enter that portion of the offseason where moves and transactions tend to slow down a little bit. As such,
we’ve got a little bit of housekeeping to talk about — it’s a tiny bit of sad news as it turns out that we’ll all have to wait a day longer to see the Braves return to action for the 2026 regular season.
Initially, the Braves were scheduled to start their season on Thursday, March 26, 2026 at home (for a change) against the Kansas City Royals. Instead, they’ll now be getting things started under the lights a night later on Friday, March 27, 2026. That’ll be a night game and I’d imagine that all the bells and whistles that come with a Friday night game in Cobb County (i.e. red jerseys and postgame fireworks) are going to come with that as well.
This now makes for a weird quirk where we’ll have the season open up officially on that Wednesday with the Giants and Yankees randomly kicking the season off on their own before the rest of Major League Baseball gets their season going on Thursday before the Braves and Royals join the party on Friday. It’s a bit strange but hey, we’ll all be seated on that Friday night to see the Braves start what should (hopefully) be a bounce-back season for them so I suppose as long as it’s not a severe delay then it’s all good.
What do y’all think? Do y’all agree with me and think this is a weird decision that flies in the face of the tradition of having all 30 teams play on the same day on Opening Day? Do you particularly care that much? If so, let us know!
