The Braves opened their longest road trip of the 2026 schedule on Friday night in Denver against the Colorado Rockies, beginning a nine-game jaunt that runs through next weekend. First pitch was set for May 1, 2026, at 8:40 p.m. EDT, with MLB.tv listed as the streaming option and Braves.tv available for viewers in-market.
Atlanta sent Grant Holmes to the mound after he went 2-1 with a 3.62 ERA, while Colorado countered with Jose Quintana, who entered 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA. Quintana had 11 walks and nine strikeouts, and his season had already included time on the injured list with a right hamstring strain after his first start.
That made this a different spot for Quintana than his April 20 start against the Dodgers, when he allowed six runs, four earned, on eight hits over five innings. He also came in off a stronger outing Sunday at the New York Mets, where he threw 5 1/3 innings and allowed one run on two hits in a 3-1 win.
The setting mattered because Coors Field remains a launching pad, and Atlanta arrived with 43 home runs, the third-most in the majors at the time. For the Braves, the question on this trip was not just how they would handle the road, but whether that power would keep traveling with them across their only three-city road trip of the season.
That is what made Friday night more than an ordinary series opener. It was the first test of a rare, long road stretch, and it came with Atlanta trying to keep its offense from losing the edge that had already put it among the league’s top home-run clubs.
