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MLB regular season has arrived. Thursday was Opening Day in Major League Baseball, and 28 of the league's 30 teams were in action. We saw familiar faces in new places, including Juan Soto having a relatively quiet Mets debut that ended with the slugger striking out against Josh Hader in a loss to the Astors.
It was Opening Day of the 2025 MLB season on Thursday, and now it's over. The actual winners and losers of each game are only part of the story. As always, there's also the other people, events and what-have-yous taking Ws and Ls.
Bobby Witt finished runner-up for AL MVP last season without a first-place vote as Aaron Judge ran away with the award. Witt hit 32 homers, a .332 batting average, 109 RBIs, 31 stolen bases, and a 9.4 WAR (second behind Judge overall and offensively).
Hanks requested that MLB declare the scorecard "OFFICIAL & APPROVED," and baseball lightheartedly obliged. The level of detail on the official scorecard is familiar to all amateur scorekeepers. Look at the backward K's, borderline unintelligible handwriting in spots, and smudges denoting devotion to accuracy.
MLB.tv subscribers looking forward to watching some Opening Day baseball took to social media Thursday afternoon to express their outrage at the app's outage.
Every Big 12 school is represented on a Major League Baseball Opening Day roster with ASU's seven leading all teams.
It seems like the Pittsburgh Pirates can never catch a break. Along with blowing a two-run lead against the Miami Marlins on MLB Opening Day and wasting an impressive Paul Skenes start, the Buccos announced they will be down an infielder for the foreseeable future.
This story was excerpted from Jake Rill's Orioles Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.
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