It was a fun, interesting, exciting start to this chaotic sprint to the postseason.
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The Giants even split their four-game series with the Dodgers. The first weekend of our short season also produced this unusual result: For the first time since 1954, no team started 3-0. In the most audacious of events, the Rays’ Ji-Man Choi, a left-handed batter, turned around to bat right-handed against Blue Jays southpaw Anthony Kay and somehow, improbably, hit a home run.
The Braves’ Marcell Ozuna stunned Edwin Diaz and the Mets with a game-tying, two-out home run in the ninth on Saturday, and even the cardboard cutouts at Citi Field cried in misery. Eric Hosmer, in those sweet new Padres pinstripes, knocked in six runs in San Diego’s opener. Kyle Hendricks tossed a complete-game shutout on Friday to give David Ross a win in his first game as Cubs manager. It had been a wonderful opening weekend of baseball. ‘That’s 2020 in a nutshell’: Inside the road of uncertainty MLB traveled to bring baseball back and the issues that remain.
I also watch it with a giant pit of distress churning in my gut. It’s a baseball game, and I think I’m happy it’s on - that reassuring background noise that creates the rhythm of summer for the sport’s fans. Albert Pujols, in an acknowledgement to Father Time, is batting sixth for the Angels, but it’s still Albert Pujols and we should appreciate every at-bat as his MLB career winds down. Shohei Ohtani is back in the lineup as the designated hitter, the day after he failed to record an out in his official return to pitching. Mike Trout will hit second for the Angels. I turn on the television at 3:40 ET Monday afternoon and see Chris Bassitt, in that resplendent kelly green A’s jersey, warming up to face the Los Angeles Angels in an afternoon game on a bright, sunny day in Oakland, California.
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