The regular season is here! The Yankees travel to San Francisco for the opening game of the year.
The Yanks tagged Logan Webb for 5 runs in the bottom of the second to start the season off hot.
20 minute delay for a dumb ceremony.
2 hit batters already.
Thus far no pitch call challenges.
Those 5 runs were on only 1 hard hit, crazy.
Netflix coverage sucks. CF camera looks like it’s looking through fog, the score graphic is poorly designed. You’d think a company with their resources could do better video.
It’s their first game ever I think.
The announcers are solid.
Way better than when Apple first started to do games with terrible announcers.
Also 7-0 now.
Baseball’s back! Two teams I loathe, but YAY anyway. 
Go, Dodgers!
Yeah, there few things less interesting to a Dodgers fan than a Yankees-Giants game. Still, I’m glad the Yankees won. Give em some early hope before we beat them again.
I mean, it was in San Francisco…
The score bug was pretty bad, and their greenscreen tech in front of the home plate ads was awful. But I’ll agree the announcing was good.
You would think that they would test the score bug internally before finalizing it. Surely the testers would have said “I can’t fucking read the pitcher and batters names and the count is too small”
I was flaming Netflix for that when I read that the smoke from the opening ceremonies was lingering in the air in the outfield. I thought everything surrounding the game was way too cheesy and forced. At least they got a professional anthem singer instead of a pop star doing a personalized version. The booth announcers calling the game didn’t annoy me. That’s all I can hope for.
It’s game 1 so you can’t extrapolate anything about the season but there were so good signs for the Yankees. Fried was great and maybe could have pitched a complete game but why push it on Opening Day. Offensively the back end of the lineup came through when the big guns were silent.
Boy, Pirates-Mets is not going the way anyone would have figured. Paul Skenes is chased in the first inning after giving up five runs. Admittedly, four of the runs were kind of not his fault; Oneil Cruz committed two terrible lapses in the outfield. The second one particularly should have been scored as an error; I guess it can’t be since he technically didn’t get glove on it.
Chase Meidroth of the White Sox, playing at Detroit, led off the game with a home run. I THINK I just heard on ESPN that it’s the first time in ChiSox history that a player has led off the season with a home run.
Alas, however. It’s now the bottom of the 8th inning, and Detroit leads the Sox 14-1.
My bad. Sox were at Milwaukee today.
Final score was Brewers 14, Sox 2.
I watched the clips. ONeil Cruz looked worse than Jasson Dominguez in the outfield. I’ve never understood not getting an error as an outfielder because you played it so badly you never got a glove on it.
It all went downhill for the White Sox after that leadoff homer.
Jacob Misiorowski struck out 11 in five innings of work, setting the Brewers’ team record for strikeouts in an Opening Day game; Milwaukee’s five pitchers combined to strike out 20. Meanwhile, Chicago’s pitchers gave up 12 hits and walked 10.
The “didn’t touch it so it’s not an error” isn’t real. I guess the scorer decided the sun was enough of an issue to not call it an error. One could easily disagree with that, but it was indeed a judgement call and thus have been called an error even though he didn’t touch it.
Correct. If the official scorer rules that with ‘ordinary effort’ the ball should have been caught, he can rule it an error.
Balls lost in the sun are generally not ruled an error, however.
I’ve watched a lot of baseball. Its extraordinarily rare that an outfielder gets an error when he doesn’t drop the ball. Losing it in the sun, or the lights or the roof should still be an error.
So should misjudging a ball by coming in when you should be going back but that’s harder to judge since it’s not a guarantee he would get to where the ball is going either way.
ETA: I take that back. If you start coming in when the ball is hit over your head it’s an error. If he played it the proper way at the very least he would have kept the batter from advancing.
This tied the MLB record for team pitching strikeouts in a nine-inning game, and set the Opening Day record for a nine-inning game.
Meanwhile, Tampa Bay tore up the Cardinals’ bullpen for 7 runs in the 6th inning in St. Louis. The Cardinals turned around in the bottom of the inning to rip Tampa Bay for 8 runs and win their home opener 9-8.
It’s going to be a long season in St. Louis if you like pitching, but great fun if you like offenese.
Dodgers win handily over the Diamondbacks in their opener. Two hit batsmen by Arizona didn’t help their cause any. Arizona got 2 early, but were then shut down as LA posted 8 unanswered runs.