Braves fans in attendance at Truist Park during Monday's Home Run Derby really showed out for Matt Olson, but they had even more left in the tank for the All-Star Game on Tuesday night. As each team's reserves and starters were announced, Braves fans cheered their hearts out for their own — Ronald Acuña, Matt Olson, and Chris Sale — and made sure that their NL East rivals really weren't welcome in Atlanta.
The boos that rained down when Mets and Phillies were announced could've rivaled the noise from the jets that flew overhead during the National Anthem. Braves fans let Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, David Peterson, Edwin Díaz, Kyle Schwarber, and Zack Wheeler have it. (Nationals representatives James Wood and MacKenzie Gore, along with lone Marlins rep Kyle Stowers were mostly exempt from the vitriol, which was hilarious in its own right.)
The Mets and Phillies had to have predicted that they wouldn't get a warm welcome, but the actual level of noise that Braves fans managed to register might've exceeded their expectations.
Braves fans went all out booing Phillies, Mets during All-Star introductions
Pete Alonso, David Peterson & Edwin Díaz receive a warm welcome in Atlanta for the All-Star Game 🤣 pic.twitter.com/VR2lEAaqQs
— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) July 16, 2025
Fans were kinder to longtime former Brave Freddie Freeman and Max Fried, both of whom have reiterated during All-Star festivities that, although they're back in Atlanta wearing different uniforms, they have a profound fondness for the place where they both started their careers.
Kyle Schwarber gets a warm welcome in Atlanta😂 pic.twitter.com/AodqOlg2fS
— Luke Arcaini (@ArcainiLuke) July 16, 2025
Acuña is the Braves' lone starter, but we'll probably see Freeman subbed out for Olson after his first at-bat, and Sale is bound to get an inning as the reigning NL Cy Young winner. The NL has steep competition in a Tigers and Cal Raleigh-heavy AL lineup along with AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal starting; so, while fans were able to get the booing out during introductions, they may have no choice but to root for the Mets and Phillies for one night.
Acuña followed Shohei Ohtani hitting lead off to get an infield single off of Skubal, so the NL's off to a great start trying to take a victory in an (at least partially) friendly venue.