The first week of the 2025 MLB season is in the books. Bat manufacturers flooded with orders for " torpedo bats " are probably the biggest winners from the opening week of the season, as something most fans hadn't heard of a week ago has become the most discussed topic in the sport. Who else has had a good week? Who needs to turn things around?

Coming into the season, the Atlanta Braves seemingly had high hopes for the year. They have a talented roster led by the reigning National League Cy Young winne

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Atlanta Braves by a 3-1 final on Tuesday night (box score), improving their record to 7-0 in the process. The Dodgers have now matched the best start to a season by a defending World Series champion in Major League Baseball history,

No defending World Series champion has ever had a better start to the season than the 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers. Wednesday night, the Dodgers improved to a perfect 8-0 thanks to Shohei Ohtani's ninth inning walk-off home run against the Atlanta Braves (LA 6,

The Dodgers will not stop winning. After their 6-5 win over the already-reeling Braves on Wednesday night, they are 8-0, their best start to a season since moving to Los Angeles in 1958, and the best ever by a defending champion.

The Los Angeles Dodgers (7-0) will try to maintain their unbeaten start to the season when they host the winless Atlanta Braves (0-6) on Wednesday. Los Angeles won a pair of games against Chicago in Tokyo and swept its series against Detroit over the weekend before winning the first two games of this series.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the biggest story of the first week of the 2025 MLB season is “torpedo bats,” the oddly shaped lumber that burst onto the scene thanks to the Yankees’ offensive explosion over the weekend and have continued to dominate baseball conversations this week.

It's gotten plenty of attention from around the league and also from Cleveland Cavaliers star and noted New York Mets fan Donovan Mitchell, who joked that the Yankees should be suspended for the season for deploying the new bats to such great effect.

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.