NEED TO KNOW
Gates: Open three hours before the first pitch.
Giveaway: First 45,000 fans receive a foam tomahawk.
Music: Atlanta rapper B.o.B will perform pregame in Fan Plaza. Southern Ground recording artists Sarah Dugas and Zac Brown will sing the National Anthem. Timothy Miller of the Atlanta Opera will sing "God Bless America" in the seventh-inning stretch. Don't miss it.
Ceremonial first pitch: Former manager Bobby Cox will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Commute options: The MARTA Braves shuttle begins three hours before the first pitch from Underground Atlanta and runs until one hour after the final out. You also can park at the Lakewood Amphitheater for $5 and ride a free shuttle to Turner Field.
Forecast: Game-time temperature will be around 80 degrees, with zero percent chance of rain. The temperature will be in the low 70s by 9 p.m.
Tickets: Windows will open at 9:30 a.m. to buy or pick up pre-bought tickets in advance and are open until the end of the fifth inning.
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Game 3 of the Braves-Dodgers series will start at 8:07 p.m. Sunday at Dodger Stadium. … There’s a chance that the Dodgers’ Vin Scully, 85, a legend, might go only one more season as the club’s broadcaster. It’s a job he’s held for 64 seasons. “I’m pretty well sure — and I don’t want to go back and forth with it — but I’m looking to next year and thinking that should be about it,” Scully told KPCC. He later told the Los Angeles Times that “I look at each year as possibly my last. Next year will be no different. It all boils down to come July or August, how I feel physically. I’ll look at how many mistakes I’ve made and if they’re coming for me yet, and how I feel. I wasn’t making a declaration. I guess it was misconstrued. Each year is my last, until the next one. I never say yes or no.”
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