Opening Day OOTS

[Frayed Knot]

Nice to see 30 of the 32 teams in action today (only the early starting BoSox & A's are off) and that Gay Dames are the rule for most of them.
Nothing worse than having the entire country celebrating OD while your team is forced to wait an extra day.


The Braves/Nats tilt last night was strictly a 1-game deal to open the new crib.
Braves return home to host the Pirates (7:00) while our current 2nd favorite team Nats go to Philly (3:00)
- D'Backs @ Reds (2:00)
- Brewers @ Cubs (2:20)
- Giants @ Dodgers (4:00)
- Rox @ Cards (4:00)
- Astros @ Padres (10:00)

- Bjays @ Yanx (1:00)
- Royals @ Tigers (1:00)
- ChiSox @ seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians" (3:00)
- Rays @ Orioles (3:00)
- Rangers @ Mariners (6:40)
- Angels @ Twinkies (7:00)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

MFY start delayed by rain.

[Guest sharpie]

Ned Yost is apparently pulling a LaRussa -- the Brewers lineup I see posted has Ben Sheets batting 8th and Jason Kendall batting 9th.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Kansas City is hitless in the fourth in Detroit.

When was the last Opening Day no-hitter? I seem to remember one, but I'm not sure.

[Gwreck]

You sure cursed that one real fast. Billy Butler singles to left for KC's first hit of 2008.

[soupcan]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Kansas City is hitless in the fourth in Detroit. When was the last Opening Day no-hitter? I seem to remember one, but I'm not sure.

Bob Feller - Indians. Don't know what year though.

Its a great trivia question:

There was a game played where one team's batting statistics remained the same as they were before the game. How could that be?

Opening Day no-hitter.


OE: April 16, 1941

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

As a non-fantasy-playing baseball fan with brain damage, I was surprised to learn today that Edgar Renteria plays for Detroit.

Tigers have a scary O. Meche is throwing pretty well but in plenty of trouble anyway.

[Theoldmole]

Can you scatter just one hit?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

MFYs Rained Out

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Cabrera reports for duty with his first AL home run, 3-0 Tigers. Crushed it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Delayed starts in Cincinnati and at Wrigley and a rainout in the Bronx.

Games scheduled to get underway ten minutes from now in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Baltimore. Let's see how the weather behaves. (Is it strange that the Reds and Indians are both playing home games? Or do they not typically synch their schedules like the Mets and Yankees [and Cubs and White Sox] do?)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Cubs-Brewers just getting underway in heavy fog/mist on espn2.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The game at Wrigley is also underway, as well as the three 3:05 starts I mentioned above.

[DocTee]

Is it strange that the Reds and Indians are both playing home games? Or do they not typically synch their schedules like the Mets and Yankees [and Cubs and White Sox] do?)

Cleveland and Cinci are a bit further apart than the Bronx and Queens.

[Gwreck]

I was under the general impression that the NYPD (and the Chicago PD, I assume) was strongly in favor of having only one of the two teams playing at home at the same time.

I think the teams just like it that way, too. Usually Oakland/SF and LA/LA are not home at the same time either.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Brent Musburger and Orel Hershiser calling the Cubs game. Ugh.

Fukodome smashes the first MLB pitch he sees into deep CF for a double-- not Kazzy enough.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Looks like the tarp is on the field at Wrigley.

Back when I was an Opening Day goer, there was nothing better than seeing clear skies on the morning of the game.

Rain is a real downer on the first day of the season.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Top 5th, Phils lead Nationals 2-0, but Zimmerman is batting with one out and the bases full.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Going to the 11th in Detroit, 4-4. A wispy guy I never heard of named Lopez has shut down the Tigers for 2 innings.

[HahnSolo]

Both ex-Mets on the Nats, Lastings and LoDuca, have been hbp by Myers today. Coincidence?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe they look like his wife?

[HahnSolo]

If his wife looks like LoDuca, somebody should hit him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

In Philadelphia:

] - W. Harris lined out to second - M. Chico singled to center - C. Guzman singled to center, M. Chico to second - L. Milledge hit by pitch, M. Chico to third, C. Guzman to second - R. Zimmerman hit sacrifice fly to deep right, M. Chico scored, C. Guzman to third - N. Johnson walked, L. Milledge to second - A. Kearns doubled to deep right center, C. Guzman and L. Milledge scored, N. Johnson to third - P. Lo Duca safe at first on shortstop J. Rollins' fielding error, N. Johnson scored, A. Kearns to third - R. Belliard popped out to second - End of Inning (4 Runs, 3 Hits, 1 Error)

[HahnSolo]

And Milledge adds a 2-run bomb in the 6th. 6-2 Nats.

[Guest AG/DC]

I won't mind Milledge and Duke busting their asses for 18 games against the Mets as long as they bust 'em for 54 games against the Braves, Marlins, and Phillies.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Milledge with a 2-run homer in the 6th. GameDay is silent on whether Milledge high-fived anyone in the stands. 6-2 Washington.

[Valadius]

ESPN basically saying that Andruw Jones got fat in the offseason.

[stevejrogers]

Phillie pen taking a pounding right now in DC. 10-6 Nats in the 9th.

In other NL East action, the Braves host the Pirates this evening.

[nymr83]

Welcome to America, Fukudome. a 3-run shot to tie the game.

[DocTee]

Gagne with a blown save, after Kerry Wood let the Brewers go ahead with three in the ninth.

How the mighty have fallen.

On edit: Fukudome's debut: 3-3 with a walk, HR, Run scored and 3 RBI