Eight years after its opening, the Braves get to show off Truist Park and The Battery Atlanta to the baseball world.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Unlike the sports venues in Downtown Atlanta, which are directly serviced by a MARTA stop at their front door, Truist Park in Cobb County doesn't exactly have the reputation for being easy to reach by public transit. But it's not necessarily as bad as you might think.

After Truist Park opened in 2017, it initially seemed the tide might be turning. During the first two seasons in the new ballpark, the Mets enjoyed a 10-9 record — but things soon fell off the rails once again,