This Opening Day game had plenty of fireworks. The Braves scored eight off of Derek Lowe in five innings, punctuated by three run homers from Adam LaRoche and Andruw Jones, but the Dodgers came back with four of their own in the bottom of the fifth on six hits, all runs charged to Tim Hudson. Atlanta got a two-run double from Edgar Renteria in the sixth and a leadoff homer to Ryan Langerhans from Ryan Langerhans in the eighth to pad the lead to 11-5, but Los Angeles wasn’t done. They got three in the eighth and Rafael Furcal singled and Jose Cruz doubled to start the ninth before Chris Reitsma induced three straight groundouts from JD Drew, Jeff Kent, and Olmedo Saenz to preserve an 11-10 Atlanta win.
The teams combined for twenty-nine hits and eight walks, with every starter in both lineups reach safely except Jeff Francoeur, who was 0-5 and saw thirteen pitches.
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