DENVER — Yes, even when you’re the mighty, talented and filthy-rich Los Angeles Dodgers, you can have days like this. The Dodgers may have removed the burden of their World Series drought last year, but on opening day Thursday at Coors Field, they showed that bizarre things can happen to even the greatest of teams. The Dodgers had one of their […]

DENVER — Cody Bellinger hit a homer — and was called out before he could finish his trot. It was an honest mistake on a bizarre play for Bellinger, Justin Turner and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in their season opener Thursday against the Colorado Rockies. Bellinger lined what appeared to be a two-run homer to left-center in the […]

Admit it. You didn’t even know Pablo Sandoval was on a big league roster this year.  It’s OK. Not a lot of people other than Braves fans — and Giants fans, because their love for all things Panda is eternal and they will always know where he is — knew that he’d made Atlanta’s Opening Day roster as an extra bat […]

DENVER — Opening day always provides some strange occurrences you don’t find once the rust comes off, but it’s hard to remember anything like a player’s own teammate robbing him of a home run. Really. It happened in the third inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ game against the Colorado Rockies with Cody Bellinger at the plate and Justin Turner on […]

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From baseball to snowballs, Detroit has it all. April weather is never the most kind for baseball, with postponements often taking place the first few weeks of the season to navigate Mother Nature’s fury and petulance. The weather was no matter for Miguel Cabrera and the Tigers on Opening Day this year, though: Miggy mashed the first home run of the 2021 […]

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As Major League Baseball gradually approaches something resembling a finish line with the coronavirus, its most joyous day of the year – opening day – was waylaid by the postponement of the nationally televised Washington Nationals-New York Mets opener due to COVID-19 issues with the Nationals.  MLB announced the postponement Thursday morning, citing "ongoing contact tracing involving members of the Nationals […]

The Washington Nationals’ scheduled Opening Day game against the New York Mets on Thursday night has been postponed because of COVID-19 issues, Major League Baseball announced. MLB said that “out of abundance of caution” the game will also not be played on Friday, the buffer day built into the schedule for Opening Day postponements. Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo had […]

Nobody really knows anything when it comes to baseball. We don’t talk about that enough. We often think that we know what will happen, but baseball has always played by its own set of random rules. Though certain things often turn out about how we expected — division winners, All-Star selections, a World Series matchup, etc. — the whole thing is […]