Champions Don’t Cool Off: Dodgers Blaze to 8-0 Start)

By: Christian Monreal

The Los Angeles Dodgers are picking up right where they left off after last season’s World Series Championship, opening the 2025 season with an impressive eight-game winning streak. With this hot start, the Dodgers have made history, becoming the first team in Major League Baseball to start 8-0. The season after winning the World Series.

This isn't the first time the Dodgers have opened a season on fire. The last time they began 8-0 It was back in 1955 when the legendary “Boys of Summer” captured their first World Series title. Now, this 2025 squad is looking to follow in those historic footsteps with a star-studded roster and championship pedigree. Manager Dave Roberts is fully bought in.

Roberts believes this year’s roster is one of the most talented he's ever managed and says he has full confidence in his team every night.

“I know that the math says we aren’t going to go 162-0,” Roberts said, “but each night we take the field, I feel like we’re going to win—whatever that means.”

On Wednesday night, the Dodgers hosted the winless Atlanta Braves and started two-timing Cy Young winner Blake Snell. Snell struggled with command early, walking four batters in just four innings. The defense didn’t help either- Max Muncy committed two throwing errors at third base, and Andy Pages misplayed a ball in center. All five runs scored against Snell were unearned, giving Atlanta a 5-0 lead.

Despite the rocky start, the Dodgers' offense came alive. In the second inning, second baseman Tommy Edman launched a two-run homer to get L.A. on the board. Two innings later, Michael Conforto hit a solo shot - his first in a Dodgers uniform, cutting the deficit to 5-3.

In the eighth, Muncy redeemed himself by tying the game with a clutch two-run double. And then, in storybook fashion, reigning MVP Shohei Ohtani stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, on his bobblehead night, no less, and crushed the first pitch he saw for a walk-off home run, sealing a stunning 6-5 victory.

After the game, Roberts was both baffled and impressed by how his team pulled off the win:

“I’m dumbfounded… we had no business winning that game, but to our guys’ credit, we just kept fighting."