Thanks to a revision in the collective bargaining agreement allowing for more off days in-season, the March 29 opener is the earliest in history. Mother Nature is already not complying - the Washington Nationals-Cincinnati Reds game has already been postponed to Friday with inclement weather expected.
And with rain in the forecast Thursday in Detroit, the Pirates at Tigers game was pushed to p. Seems odd? No worries. Here's a look at all 15 matchups - with national TV times indicated and what to watch in each:. Cardinals at Mets, Ozuna makes his Cardinals debut against Mets starter Noah Syndergaard, who looks to bounce back after a lost season.
Absent a more traditional leadoff, why not give Davis a whirl? He led the game off with a fly out, by the way. Bit of a weird outing for Noah Syndergaard against the Cardinals on Thursday. He struck out 10 in six innings and his stuff looked absolutely filthy Syndergaard's fastball averaged Just seemed like whenever he made a mistake and caught too much of the plate, the Cardinals put a real good swing on it.
Pedro Martinez had 12 in Syndergaard missed most of last season with a torn lat. The Opening Day results were okay at best, but his stuff looked good, and that's the most important thing coming back from injury. As long as stays healthy and holds that stuff all season, I reckon Thursday's outing will be one of the worst of his season.
Syndergaard is that good. The first outfielder to rob a home run this season? That would be O's right fielder Craig Gentry. He took a solo shot away from Eddie Rosario of the Twins in the first inning Thursday afternoon. To the action footage:. Well done, Gentry. Always nice to get that first home run robbery out of the way on Opening Day. Ian Happ was not the only player to begin his team's season with a leadoff home run Thursday.
George Springer did it for the defending World Series champions as well. Homers in WorldSeries Games Now a OpeningDay dinger. By George … pic.
Another fun fact: Springer led off last season with a home run as well. Leadoff homers on back-to-back Opening Days is pretty darn cool. Springer is the first player in history to do it. The season started the same way as the season for the Astros and Springer. Will it end the same way? They sure hope so.
Ian Happ hit the first homer of the new season and Craig Gentry robbed the first homer of the new season. Eduardo Nunez? He hit the first inside-the-park homer of He can thank Denard Span and Kevin Kiermaier for some, uh, communication issues. First homer of , just the way you drew it up. It's been 50 years -- 50 years!
The last two home runs the Red Sox have hit are inside-the-parkers. The Dodgers have won their last seven Opening Days, the longest active Opening Day winning streak in baseball. Not coincidentally, the great Clayton Kershaw has started all seven of those games. His stats in seven career Opening Day starts are just silly:.
The Dodgers have outscored their opponents during their seven-game Opening Day winning streak. They'll look to keep that streak alive against Ty Blach and the rival Giants on Thursday. Kershaw, by the way, will set a new franchise record with his eighth consecutive Opening Day start this year, breaking a tie with Don Sutton. Only one player, Nationals wunderkind Bryce Harper , has hit a home run each of the last three Opening Days. Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw is set for his club-record eighth consecutive Game 1 start, and Los Angeles has won each of the previous seven, including over San Francisco in and ' Unfortunately for San Francisco, Madison Bumgarner won't be toeing the rubber against Kershaw after sustaining a fractured left hand in his final Cactus League outing.
Ty Blach gets the call instead. TV to international subscribers. Today's Giants-Dodgers game will mark the 28th Opening Day meeting between the two clubs. That will tie the Cubs and Reds for the second-most Opening Day showdowns between a pair of teams in that span, topped only by the 29 games between the Red Sox and Yankees. True to form, the Giants hold the slimmest of leads in those previous 27 tilts. Indians at Mariners, p. Hernandez, the active leader among pitchers in consecutive Opening Day starts, will become just the seventh in history to make 10 in a row.
Kluber, who posted a 1. Meanwhile, the Mariners' lineup features some familiar faces Robinson Cano , Nelson Cruz , Kyle Seager , a new one at a new position Dee Gordon, in center field and possibly one that is both very old and new.
That would be the year-old Ichiro Suzuki , who will don a Seattle uniform for the first time since July 22, You might not know it, but Baltimore is on a roll -- at least when it comes to Opening Day. The Orioles have claimed their past seven consecutive season openers, tying the Dodgers for the longest current streak in the Majors. The Twins snapped an eight-season losing streak on Opening Day last season, and they'll in all likelihood feature Joe Mauer making his 14th Opening Day start to pass Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew for the most in the franchise's history in Minnesota dating back to Yankees at Blue Jays, p.
New York and Toronto have shared a division since the Blue Jays entered the AL in , but this is just the second time the Yankees will begin their season north of the border. Oh, and there's also the small fact that Giancarlo Stanton will be making his Yankees debut, batting third in first-year manager Aaron Boone's lineup.
Red Sox at Rays, 4 p. With this outing, Chris Archer will tie James Shields ' record of four Opening Day starts for the Rays and become the first Tampa Bay pitcher to do the honors in four consecutive seasons.
Archer has faced a different AL East foe each time, having lost to the Orioles in and the Blue Jays in '16, but he defeated the Yankees last year. The Red Sox will trot out their own ace in lefty Chris Sale, whose career Angels at A's, p. Michael Trout has homered on three of his past four Opening Days, including last year at Oakland, off the same pitcher Kendall Graveman who will take the ball for the A's today.
Washington's Bryce Harper is the only other player to go deep in three of the past four season openers. Meanwhile, today's game will mark just the second time in the past 41 years in which the A's will host a day game for their home opener -- and the first time since Brewers at Padres, p. Something has to give for these teams, which both have lost three consecutive openers. Not only that, but both teams have been outscored by a combined in those six games.
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