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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.
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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.

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.