The Atlanta Braves returned to Truist Park Tuesday to open a seven-game homestand that runs through Monday, mixing playoff-race stakes with a rollout of new stadium food, player-designed apparel and theme nights. The team enters the stretch with a 75-55 record, good for a 3.0-game lead over the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League East, as it plays its final 16 home games of the regular season. Alongside the baseball, Truist Park is debuting series-inspired menu items, a Ronald Acuña Jr. hat collection, and a run of promotional nights tied to Georgia's outdoor culture and Atlanta's HBCU community.
The homestand opened with a three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with all three games scheduled for a 7:15 p.m. first pitch, according to CBS News Atlanta. The Colorado Rockies follow for three games, and the homestand closes with a makeup game against the San Francisco Giants on Monday. Braves reporter Jamal Goss, who covered the slate for the station, detailed how the club is leaning on hyper-localized food and merchandise to keep fans engaged through the stretch drive.
New Menu Items Track the Visiting Teams
For the Dodgers series, the Truist Park menu includes elote served with blue tortilla chips, while an elk burger topped with smoked cherry cheese, caramelized onions and huckleberry barbecue sauce arrives when the Rockies come to town, per the CBS News Atlanta report. Jaco Dreyer, cited in that same report, said the Braves develop a series-inspired dish for every series on the schedule. The concessions program sits atop a decade-long partnership between the Braves and food service provider Delaware North, which extended its deal at Truist Park through the 2036 season in October 2025 after a relationship that began at Turner Field in 2016, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Delaware North manages both standard concessions and premium dining spaces at the ballpark in partnership with the Patina Group.
Also on the menu are Peach Dingers, a wonton-wrapped, fried dessert made with Georgia peaches and bourbon and finished with caramel and powdered sugar, the CBS News Atlanta report noted. The dish rounds out a menu strategy built around ingredients and flavors tied to whichever team is visiting Truist Park that week.
Acuña and Chipper Jones Headline the Merchandise Drops
Ronald Acuña Jr. helped design two new hats that became available Tuesday exclusively at Threads by Braves Clubhouse Store inside The Battery Atlanta. One design draws on his native Venezuela with a sunset and palm trees, while the second honors Atlanta with the city skyline and a peach, per the same CBS News Atlanta account. Alyse Spaide, also cited in that report, said Braves players use merchandise like this to express their personal style to fans.
Chipper Jones designed three additional hats reflecting his love of the outdoors and details tied to his playing career, with those hats scheduled to arrive Friday at Threads. Threads opened at The Battery Atlanta in May 2023 as what MLB.com described as Major League Baseball's first fashion-forward retail store built around player-inspired apparel and limited-edition collaborations, a format that has previously hosted collaborations such as Atlanta artist Usher's 2025 capsule collection and bobblehead giveaway featuring his “A-Town Down” hand gesture, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.
Saturday's Camo Jersey Giveaway and Hunting and Fishing Night
The homestand's marquee giveaway lands Saturday, when the first 15,000 fans through the gates receive a Chipper Jones Realtree APX camo replica jersey featuring his Hall of Fame No. 10 over an all-over woodland bark and branch pattern, per MLB.com. The giveaway coincides with the second annual Hunting and Fishing Night, a partnership among the Braves, Realtree and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources that debuted in August 2025. This year's event includes inflatable archery, a large aquarium stocked with fish species found in Georgia, and interactive activities staffed by state wildlife officials.
Two other specialty nights round out the homestand's promotional calendar. Thursday brings a Harry Potter specialty ticket package that includes a bobblehead depicting rookie catcher Drake Baldwin stylized in Slytherin robes as “Draco Baldwin,” a detail confirmed by MLB.com. Friday is HBCU Night, featuring an HBCU-themed bobblehead and a pregame block party with marching band performances at the Coca-Cola Roxy, the 3,700-capacity music venue inside The Battery Atlanta, according to CBS News Atlanta's coverage.
Ticket Deals and Getting to the Ballpark
The Braves also launched a three-day fan appreciation flash sale Tuesday, letting fans save up to 40 percent on tickets to the team's remaining 16 home games. Jori Palmer, cited in the CBS News Atlanta report, said the sale applies specifically to those final home dates as the club tries to fill Truist Park down the stretch. The push comes as parent company Atlanta Braves Holdings reported first-quarter 2026 revenue up 53 percent year-over-year to $72 million, with $26 million of that tied to mixed-use development revenue from The Battery Atlanta, according to Barchart.
Fans driving in should note that all Uber and Lyft drop-offs and pick-ups are consolidated into a single designated zone along Windy Ridge Parkway between The Battery Atlanta and Cobb Parkway, per official Truist Park transportation guidelines — a detail Hoodline previously reported on amid concerns about rideshare pickup snags around the 41,000-seat venue. With the division race tightening and just over two weeks left before the postseason picture sharpens, the Braves are betting that peach dumplings, camo jerseys and an Acuña hat drop can keep Truist Park full through the final stretch.
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