You wanna start with a live look right
now from the battery and Truist Park.
You're seeing the fans gathering.
It is opening day for our
world champion Atlanta Braves.
We're about 3 hours from first pitch,
but you already know fans are there
pregaming right now at the battery
and they're in for a very fun night.
If you're headed to the ballpark,
there's a lot more than
just baseball going on too.
Alright, and this isn't your
average opening day either.
You mentioned world champions Atlanta Braves.
It is a huge part of the pre-game
ceremony and festivities.
Day the World Series Pennant
will be unveiled around 7:45.
It'll be brought in to Truist Park
by parachutists Chipper Jones,
throwing out the ceremonial baseball.
A few minutes later, and then,
after the national anthem and
a F16 fly over it will be time
to play Bob Maria Martin on the
field for us this evening,
getting ready for tonight's game,
and Maria a funny thing happened
on the way to opening day.
A little clubhouse drama,
if you will,
between a current brave star and
a former darling of the team.
Hey Jennifer, yeah,
first and foremost, happy opening day.
We've been waiting for this for a while now
and now we're gonna start the road to 162.
We get the full season and there's
definitely a different buzz
around Truist Park right now.
But like you said,
there's a little bit of drama going on,
and it's between two players that we
won't even see on the diamond tonight.
Of course, talking about injured
outfielder Ronald Acuna, junior and break,
former Braves first baseman.
Now, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman
Acuna actually admitting that there was
at some point a rift between heat and.
Freeman last night he did a Spanish
interview on Instagram live and the reporter
asked him what would you miss about Freeman.
Acuna said, quote nothing.
He then said this translated from Spanish
when you're starting as a rookie.
There's always someone
who wants to come for you.
Do you understand?
One comes with that flow and attitude of
minor leagues and puts on the black lines
on the cheek wearing the hat sideways.
And many people don't like that.
I don't see it as a bad thing
because to me it's part of the game.
So he used to really come for me as
a veteran and actually took off my
black lines on my cheek with a white.
Now Freeman has yet to respond.
Publicly,
his Dodgers won't open the season
until tomorrow in Colorado Braves
manager Brian Snitker said he
doesn't necessarily feel the need
to address it with the Kunya,
but here's what Acuna said about
45 minutes ago in the clubhouse.
And then.
To be honest, I think it was
just exaggerated and blowing
out of proportion by the media.
I just talked about just some things
that you know that occurred during
the 2018 season and I just think it
was completely taken just out of it
was just blown out of proportion.
Right after that I asked Acunia
what he felt like his relationship
was with Freddie Freeman.
Ever since that incident back in 2018,
he said he felt like it was
a good one and he really just
wanted to put that in the past.
He also said he wanted
to focus on opening day,
but of course all those questions
would be about his relationship with
the former Braves first baseman.
But it is a big day of baseball
here at Truist Park.
At 7:45 we're gonna get to see the
World Series Pennant and this
place will be rocking 808 first
pitch against the Cincinnati Reds.
It's going to be such a fantastic time.
In fact. Brian Snitker also said that.
He expects that this crowd to
be that like the World Series,
but outside in the batteries we
find our chief meteorologist,
Chris Holcomb, and Chris it is a
beautiful day for some baseball.
It really is a beautiful day.
Maria, you said it was going to
be rocking inside on the field
and a little while it is already
rocking outside here at the battery.
Just take a look around.
You can see here we're on the
green kids are playing around,
throwing balls,
hitting some whiffle balls here.
But look at the line.
The gates
are going to open in a little while.
Of course the games later
on tonight, but folks
are already lined up just
waiting to get inside.
They have been waiting for this day.
For many excuse me many,
many days, so yeah,
really rocking out here already and
excuse me the pollen has gotten to me,
so sorry about that.
You mentioned the beautiful day.
I am so thankful that all those
storms from this week and from last
night got out of here and this
is a really nice day for
opening day for baseball.
And we have plenty of sunshine here.
Of course the sun will be setting
right after the first pitch.
Take a look at your forecast for
tonight and once the sun goes down.
It's going to start cooling off.
We've seen our high
temperatures in the 60s today,
but during the evening we will see those
temperatures falling through the 50s,
so it's going to be getting noticeably
cooler during the game tonight.
You may have noticed the
breezes around today as well.
We will still have a little bit of wind,
but it is going to be calming
down a little bit more out there
for the evening so everybody
who's coming here tonight.
We've got great weather for you.
It's just going to be a little
cooler throughout the evening hour.
Stay with us.
We'll look ahead to the weather for
the rest of the weekend for the
additional games and for whatever other
events you're gonna be taking place.
For the weekend coming up in
just a few minutes.