ATLANTA (Ticker) -- For Brad Penny, his first game back might have been punishment enough.
Andruw Jones drove in four runs and Rafael Furcal had four hits as the Atlanta Braves pounded Penny and the Florida Marlins, 13-4.
Making his season debut after serving a five-game suspension for his role in a spring training altercation with Montreal's Vladimir Guerrero, Penny was hammered for six runs and eight hits in five innings.
The Braves scored six runs over the first three innings and broke open the game with three more in the sixth.
The support was more than enough for rookie Horacio Ramirez (1-1), who allowed four runs and six hits in six innings. The 23-year-old lefthander had his first win, first hit and first RBI in the same game.
"I've got two game balls. That's pretty sweet," Ramirez said. "I'm a little shaky right now. I think I battled out there. I don't think I had my best stuff. I held them off for six innings."
"He has poise," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "He's got a great game plan and sticks to it."
Ramirez said the single in the third inning was his first hit as a professional.
"(Penny) was throwing too hard," said Ramirez, who professed to having roughly 40 at-bats in the minor leagues. "I just threw the bat. I was a decent hitter in high school. Now I just try to make contact, that's it."
Ray King, Roberto Hernandez and John Smoltz each tossed a scoreless inning in relief.
Penny (0-1) struck out six but walked five in losing to Atlanta for just the second time in six career decisions.
"He battled," Marlins manager Jeff Torborg said. "He got better as the game went along. I was a little concerned going in about how sharp he was going to be after the layoff. But he had good stuff and he's strong, so that is good. It bodes well for the future."
The Braves jumped on Penny for four runs in the opening inning. Rafael Furcal led off with a single and stole second. Robert Fick and Gary Sheffield walked and Chipper Jones made it 2-0 with a single up the middle.
Jones had been in a 4-for-20 funk.
Andruw Jones followed with a long double to the right-center field gap for a 4-0 cushion.
"We swung good today," Andruw Jones said. "We hit balls hard even when they were outs. We've been hitting the ball hard since the beginning of the season - right at people."
"I was a little bit off in the first inning," Penny said. "I was a couple of inches off. After the first inning, I settled down. I did pitch well after that point. I just gotta get that first inning out of the way."
Florida halved the deficit in the second on a run-scoring groundout by former Brave Gerald Williams and a sacrifice fly by Mike Redmond. The Marlins added a run in the third on an RBI single by Mike Lowell and had the bases loaded when Ramirez induced Williams to bounce out.
Penny got the first two batters in the third, but Vinny Castilla doubled. Torborg opted to walk Marcus Giles, but Ramirez spoiled the strategy with an RBI single to left. Furcal followed with an infield hit for a 6-3 lead.
"The thing that hurt me is that little pitcher got a hit down the line," Penny said. "That really killed me. It was a good pitch."
An error by Furcal at shortstop led to a Florida run in the fourth, but the Braves tacked on three in the sixth against Armando Almanza.
Furcal greeted the reliever with a long double and Fick hit Almanza's next offering over the right field wall for his first National League homer. Two batters later, Andruw Jones homered to center for a 9-4 advantage.
A two-run blast by Gary Sheffield highlighted a four-run eighth inning.
Penny was 3-0 against the Braves in 2002, holding them to six earned runs in 17 innings.
