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MLB Daily Thread: Day 2

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good start for baseball:suds:

1 pitch 1 homer
Happ's feat also brought to mind Boston's Dwight Evans, who began the 1986 season by clubbing a first-pitch homer off Detroit's Jack Morris at Tiger Stadium.

1 player 3 homers
Davidson became the first player to hit a trio of homers on Opening Day since Dmitri Young accomplished the feat -- also against the Royals -- back on April 4, 2005.
Chicago's six homers overall tied the 1988 Mets for the most hit by a club in its season opener, per the Elias Sports Bureau.

welcome to NY
Stanton's Yankees career started with a bang. That is, it started with a monster home run in his first at-bat for New York. Stanton crushed a home run to right field with an exit velocity of 117.3 mph, according to Statcast™ -- making it the hardest opposite-field homer since the tracking technology was introduced

whose faster nunez or yaz
This was only the fourth Opening Day inside-the-park homer in the past 50 years. Before Stephen Drew hit one for the D-backs in 2010 and Emilio Bonifacio for the Marlins in '09, it hadn't been done since Boston's own Carl Yastrzemski in 1968.

pacman delivers
That makes Baltimore the first team to have Opening Day walk-offs in three consecutive seasons, according to Elias.

best player in baseball caught sleeping
Mike Trout endured a very uncharacteristic performance on Opening Day in Oakland, going 0-for-6 with a strikeout. It was the first 0-for-6 of Trout's career, out of 18 previous games in which he logged at least six at-bats -- and he had multiple hits in 16 of those.
 

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No mention of the sox bullpen collapse?
 

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No mention of the sox bullpen collapse?
The Braves erased a 5-0 deficit against the Phillies and walked off to an 8-5 victory when Nick Markakisbelted a three-run homer in the ninth. The five-run Opening Day deficit was the largest overcome in franchise history.:suds:
 

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Davidson became the first player to hit a trio of homers on Opening Day since Dmitri Young accomplished the feat -- also against the Royals -- back on April 4, 2005.
Chicago's six homers overall tied the 1988 Mets for the most hit by a club in its season opener, per the Elias Sports Bureau.

Matt "don't call me Tuffy" Davidson

:)
 

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I'm really hoping the Cardinals pitching isnt going to be a dumpster fire this year but there are definitely signs of that possibility.
 

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good start for baseball:suds:

1 pitch 1 homer
Happ's feat also brought to mind Boston's Dwight Evans, who began the 1986 season by clubbing a first-pitch homer off Detroit's Jack Morris at Tiger Stadium.

1 player 3 homers
Davidson became the first player to hit a trio of homers on Opening Day since Dmitri Young accomplished the feat -- also against the Royals -- back on April 4, 2005.
Chicago's six homers overall tied the 1988 Mets for the most hit by a club in its season opener, per the Elias Sports Bureau.

welcome to NY
Stanton's Yankees career started with a bang. That is, it started with a monster home run in his first at-bat for New York. Stanton crushed a home run to right field with an exit velocity of 117.3 mph, according to Statcast™ -- making it the hardest opposite-field homer since the tracking technology was introduced

whose faster nunez or yaz
This was only the fourth Opening Day inside-the-park homer in the past 50 years. Before Stephen Drew hit one for the D-backs in 2010 and Emilio Bonifacio for the Marlins in '09, it hadn't been done since Boston's own Carl Yastrzemski in 1968.

pacman delivers
That makes Baltimore the first team to have Opening Day walk-offs in three consecutive seasons, according to Elias.

best player in baseball caught sleeping
Mike Trout endured a very uncharacteristic performance on Opening Day in Oakland, going 0-for-6 with a strikeout. It was the first 0-for-6 of Trout's career, out of 18 previous games in which he logged at least six at-bats -- and he had multiple hits in 16 of those.
i hate joe kelly.

carson gets a pass.
 

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The Braves erased a 5-0 deficit against the Phillies and walked off to an 8-5 victory when Nick Markakisbelted a three-run homer in the ninth. The five-run Opening Day deficit was the largest overcome in franchise history.:suds:


Lol at the Fillies blowing 5-0 lead and especially LOL at letting Nick Markakis beat them
 

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Milwaukee has 2 closers. That's not fair.
 

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Lol at the Fillies blowing 5-0 lead and especially LOL at letting Nick Markakis beat them

Took out their starting pitcher who was throwing a shutout.....He threw 68 pitches.
 

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MLB announced today that a total of 254 players represented an all-time record of 21 different countries and territories outside of the United States on 2018 Opening Day 25-man rosters and inactive lists.
The Dominican Republic again lead the Major Leagues with 84 players, Venezuela ranked second with 74 players, while Puerto Rico placed third with 19 players, its highest total since 2011 (20).
 

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Matt Davidson said that until he joined them in the record book on Thursday, he had never heard of George Bell, Tuffy Rhodes or Dmitri Young.

"I'll definitely look them up, though,''
said Davidson, the designated hitter for the White Sox.
Bell and Young each had a decent run. Tuffy Rhodes, probably hit about 5 more home runs for the rest of his career
 

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Tuffy Rhodes, probably hit about 5 more home runs for the rest of his career

Until he got to Japan.

:D


Rhodes is the all-time NPB home run leader among foreign-born players, and he is tied for 11th overall with 464 HR's in Japan. He hit 55 home runs in 2001, equaling the NPB single-season mark set by Sadaharu Oh in 1964.
 
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Indians really stunk...tito didn't have team ready for season
 

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Yeah, Tulo's out to start the season. Also Donaldson is having arm issues. I think it could be another long season for Toronto.
 
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