Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. It happens some 270 times every day in Major League Baseball: The pitcher records the third out of the inning, and the catcher heads for his dugout. … Read more
AP Photo / Nick Wass Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. The last time we saw Mookie Betts during the 2021 season, he was striking out on three fastballs hurled right down Broadway … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. By the end of this week — as they start a 10-game stretch with seven games against Baltimore — the Yankees will have played a quarter of … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. You see a ball that has been hit squarely, going back, back, back. You hear it. This is a home run. How could it not be? It’s … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. We’re just about a month into the season. The standings and statistics will look a lot different by the time we get to October, and it’s probably … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Corey Kluber has long said that his breaking ball resists classification. It’s not a curve. It’s not a slider. It’s just his breaking … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. BOSTON – Before the Angels fell, 4–0, to the Red Sox on Tuesday, outfielder Jo Adell disembarked the team plane at Logan Airport. A few staffers unpacked … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. If there is one game that defines the start to the 2022 MLB season, it is the combined no-hitter five Mets pitchers threw against the Phillies on … Read more
Erick W. Rasco / Sports Illustrated Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. NEW YORK – As Anthony Rizzo’s free agency stretched into its fifth month, he realized two things: After a disappointing 2020 … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. It remains to be seen just how the shift will be regulated in 2023. While players have agreed that the league will be able to restrict the … Read more