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NEW YORK — One week later than originally scheduled and then another day later than that, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox opened their 2022 regular seasons at Yankee Stadium on Friday. The Yankees rallied to win the opener, 6-5, despite falling behind 3-0 in the first inning. They did not lead until their big offseason addition, former AL MVP Josh Donaldson, provided the walk-off single in the 11th inning (box score).
“The team resiliency is going to lead to good things in the future,” Donaldson said after the game. “… To show some resiliency and fight back and hang in there — total team win, bullpen did a great job — hopefully it leads to great things in the future.”
Moreso than the game itself, the top story to come out of Yankee Stadium on Opening Day is the Yankees and Aaron Judge failing to agree to a contract extension. Judge set an Opening Day deadline for talks and he is scheduled to become a free agent after the season. The Yankees offered a seven-year deal worth $30.5 million per year covering 2023-29.
“We’re all disappointed right now that we can’t be talking about a contract extension today. Not now, but hopefully later,” Yankees GM Brian Cashman said prior to Friday’s game. “… Both sides would like to be here. I think Aaron Judge doesn’t want to be anywhere but here, and we’d love to make that happen as well.”
Here are four takeaways from Opening Day at Yankee Stadium.
1. The Red Sox should pay Devers
I mean, this was already obvious, but Rafael Devers really drove home the point with a towering two-run home run into second deck in right field in his first at-bat of the new season. Gerrit Cole tried to throw a 99-mph heater by him at the top of the zone, but Devers beat him to the spot and went deep. Not many hitters can handle this velocity in this location:
Similar to Judge, Devers set an Opening Day deadline for contract extension talks, and the two sides did not reach a deal. The Red Sox and Devers were said to be “very far off” earlier this week. Matt Olson signed an eight-year, $168 million extension at the same service time level as Devers a few weeks ago, just to give you an idea of his potential price range.
Devers will play the entire season at age 25 and he is scheduled to become a free agent after 2023. Because a deal did not get done prior to Opening Day, the two sides will go into next season in the same place Judge is with the Yankees now. Devers will be nearing free agency and looking for a massive payday next spring.
2. Cole settled down and pitched down
The 2022 season began much like the 2021 season ended for Cole: the Red Sox hit him hard. Cole did not make it out of the third inning in last year’s Wild Card Game, and the first four batters on Opening Day went four-pitch walk, two-run home run (the Devers homer), loud single off the wall, double into the right field corner. Just like that, the Yankees trailed 3-0, and the Yankee Stadium crowd gave Cole an earful.
“Tough settling in. Obviously the first four pitches were not really competitive,” Cole said after the game. “Honestly got burned on a couple pretty good fastball locations in the first. They put some great some swings. Fortunately we were able to settle in after that and give us a chance to win.”
After those first four batters reached, Cole retired 11 of the final 13 batters he faced, getting through four innings and giving the offense a chance to get back into the game. Like everyone else after the short spring, Cole was on a pitch count on Opening Day. He threw 68 pitches (27 in the first inning alone) and was slated to throw 75 or so.
“I think we just executed some better breaking balls down in the zone,” Cole said when asked what allowed him to settle in. “I can’t really say we got ahead of a lot of guys. I just we just made a little bit better pitches.”
Cole broke out as an ace-caliber pitcher with the Astros when he began using an elevated four-seam fastball and wicked breaking balls down. The foreign-substance crackdown has forced him to change his approach (no longer can Cole rely on sticky stuff to get extra spin), and he now pitches primarily down in the zone. Look at his Opening Day pitch locations:
Gerrit Cole lived down in the zone on Opening Day.
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I count what, seven pitches in the upper third of the strike zone? That is not the Cole we saw from 2018 through June 2021. He has made the adjustment to pitch down in the zone — Cole also picked up a cutter in spring training and threw three on Opening Day — and it’s an ongoing process. The pitcher adjusts, the hitters adjust, the pitcher adjusts back, etc.
Cole finished second in the Cy Young voting in 2021, but he had a 2.31 ERA before the crackdown and a 4.12 ERA after. That is a bit deceiving though, because Cole had 3.28 ERA in his first 13 post-crackdown starts. He then hurt his hamstring on Sept. 7 and pitched through it because the Yankees were fighting for a postseason spot. In his last four starts, he had a 6.35 ERA.
3. The Yankees won a battle of the bullpens
After the Red Sox took their 3-0 lead four batters in the first inning, the Yankees battled back and tied the game thanks to an Anthony Rizzo two-run homer and a Giancarlo Stanton solo homer. Stanton’s home run was the kind of home run only Stanton can hit. It was a low line drive the other way that carried into Yankee Stadium’s short right field porch. It was a missile.
Stanton’s home run tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the fourth. In the top of the sixth, the Red Sox regained the lead with a good ol’ fashioned get ’em on, get ’em over, get ’em in rally. Xander Bogaerts pulled a ground ball double inside the third base bag, JD Martinez moved him to third with a grounder to second, and Alex Verdugo got him in with a ground ball through the drawn in infield. Verdugo made two nice sliding catches in the game as well.
On paper, the Yankees have the bullpen advantage over the Red Sox, but the Red Sox have Garrett Whitlock, who they poached from the Yankees in the Rule 5 Draft last offseason. Boston is stretching Whitlock out, possibly to start later in the season, and he retired seven of the first eight batters he faced after the Red Sox regained the lead. The problem is he faced nine hitters. That ninth hitter, DJ LeMahieu, hit a game-tying homer to right.
LeMahieu started Opening Day over Gleyber Torres, and manager Aaron Boone indicated it was essentially a “feel” move. The Yankees have nine starting caliber position players for eight spots (not counting catcher), so someone will be out of the lineup each day. On Friday, it was Torres. That meant he was available to pinch-hit for catcher Kyle Higashioka in the tenth inning, and he provided a game-tying sacrifice fly.
“Maybe he has the most important at-bat of the game today,” Boone said about Torres earlier in the day.
The Yankees and Red Sox traded runs in the tenth. In the 11th, Yankees righty Michael King stranded the automatic runner with two strikeouts and a broken bat groundout. King was electric that inning. On the third pitch of the bottom of the 11th, Donaldson poked a walk-off single back up the middle. As noted in the intro, this is the Yankees first Opening Day walk-off win since 1957.
“It was great. Our team put us in a great in position there,” Donaldson said after the game. “It was nice for my first game here to help the team win. Couldn’t ask for much more than that.”
4. New York’s new-look defense shined
The Yankees prioritized defense over the winter, specifically on the infield, and it was on full display on Opening Day. Donaldson, the new third baseman, and new shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa each made sparkling plays. Rizzo, brought back to play first base after coming over at the trade deadline last year, made several nice scoops as well.
Last season the Yankees ranked 29th among the 30 teams in defensive runs saved, and 25th in Statcast’s outs above average. The Yankees gave away too many free bases and forced their pitchers to throw too many extra pitches. Improving the defense was a must, and while it’s a long season, the early returns on Opening Day were good. The defense is no longer a glaring liability.
“Just a fun game to be a part of. The guys competed well all night,” Boone said following Friday’s game. “You know, I think it’s an example of it’s not always going to be perfect. We get punched in the mouth there early. Gerrit settles in and throws up some zeroes for us to keep us right there.”
Fans can breathe a sigh of relief: MLB is officially back.
After a months-long lockout, the prospect of seeing MLB games any earlier than the summer seemed, at points, to be dim. But the games are actually here, slated to begin Thursday and carry on through the rest of the year.
This year’s Opening Day, for the first time in five years, will be split between Thursday and Friday. Not every team is going to play on Thursday, and not every team will play on Friday. But every team will be back in action on Saturday.
With first pitches scheduled to be thrown out over the course of the next three days, The Sporting News is breaking down exactly how to watch each team play their first games of the season, and where to find the nationally televised matchups.
Here’s everything you need to know about Opening Day 2022.
The first few days of baseball will feature a handful of nationally televised games, with some slated to be carried by MLB Network, one on ESPN2 and one on FS1. There are also going to be three games carried by ESPN+ and two by Apple TV+.
Thursday, April 7
Here’s a look at the full schedule of games scheduled for Thursday.
Nearly all of the games on Opening Day will be broadcast on regional sports networks, meaning that viewers will need to be within their region to view them on cable television.
Across the first two days of Opening Day, however, there will be a few nationally televised games. The first two Mets vs. Nationals games on Thursday and Friday will be on ESPN+ and Apple TV+, respectively. The Reds vs. Braves on Thursday will be on ESPN2. The White Sox vs. Tigers game on Friday will be on ESPN+, and the Astros at Angels on Saturday will also be on Apple TV+.
Each day, there will be an afternoon game on MLB Network, depending on locality. On Thursday, fans not in the Milwaukee or Chicago regions will see the Brewers vs. Cubs on MLB Network. On Friday, the network will broadcast the Red Sox vs. Yankees game for anyone not in the region, or Athletics vs. Phillies for those who are in the Boston or New York regions.
MLB live streams for Opening Day
Fans hoping to catch a glimpse of MLB action over the two-day Opening Day will also have the option to stream the games instead.
MLB TV
Fans can watch MLB games that aren’t in their local market using MLB TV. If a viewer tries to access a game that is being carried by their local cable station, it will be blacked out.
The yearly package costs $129.99 per year, $24.99 per month or $109.99 for watching only a single team.
Network apps
There are options to stream the nationally televised games as well. ESPN and Fox Sports have their own streaming apps that will carry their channels.
The only way to watch the Apple TV+ games will be with an Apple TV+ subscription. It offers a seven-day free trial, and costs $4.99 per month after the trial period.
Online streaming bundles
But if interest is more in the local games, there are streaming bundles that include access to the channels on which the games will be broadcast.
DirecTV stream, YouTube TV, Hulu Live and fuboTV all provide access to select TV channels that will carry several of the games.
In Canada, viewers can find Sportsnet, which carries the Blue Jays, and MLB Network on fuboTV.
How to watch MLB games in Canada
Baseball fans in Canada can watch MLB games on Sportsnet, TSN, TVA Sports and RDS. All Blue Jays games are broadcast live on Sportsnet One in Toronto.
MLB Network, which hosts various live games all season, can be live-streamed on both DAZN and fuboTV, which offers a free trial.
A fashion start out-up co-established by singer and entertainer Ciara, NFL quarterback Russell Wilson and former Lululemon CEO Christine Working day is making ready to open up its first brick-and-mortar store.
The Property of LR&C, which released on line in 2020, will open a pop-up close to its Seattle headquarters in early February, Working day claimed in an job interview, with a choice from its a few manufacturers: Wilson’s Excellent Man Manufacturer, LITA by Ciara and Human Country, a gender-inclusive clothes label.
The makes are currently marketed on line and by way of wholesale associates Nordstrom, Kohl’s and on the net style website Revolve. But Residence of LR&C has been plotting a 3-prong technique to retail due to the fact its inception, in accordance to Working day, who is the company’s CEO, that contains options to market instantly to consumers on-line, by way of its possess merchants and by wholesalers like division outlets.
“The foreseeable future is omnichannel,” explained Working day, who stated the technique is the most rewarding way to go in retail nowadays. “Outlets act more like showrooms for people today to actually purchase in the second, touch and truly feel your product, and to be ready to specific your complete brand name story.”
“And there’s an benefit to wholesale in the commencing as a little model, mainly because … you also acquire clients, consciousness and marketing from these points of distribution,” she included.
The company expects to open up three or four permanent retailers in the U.S. this 12 months, and will also seem to find a larger room in close proximity to the Seattle pop-up shop at College Village, Day said.
Dwelling of LR&C’s growth plans suit into a even bigger craze shaping up in the retail business as makes that released on the web devote in retailers in malls and browsing centers. Merchants like Allbirds, Warby Parker, Vuori and Mack Weldon are opening extra stores this yr, in component to assistance offset the fees that occur with functioning a organization on the net.
Product sales in brick-and-mortar areas can generate more earnings since the retailer saves on shipping and delivery expenses to on the net customers — and keep-bought items are returned less routinely than online-ordered kinds. Rents have also dropped in some markets in the course of the pandemic, which may make it an opportune time for stores to indicator a lease.
Savage X Fenty, a lingerie business began on the internet by pop star Rihanna in 2018, stated past 7 days it will open up its initial keep later this month in Las Vegas. It also options to open locations in Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., this yr.
“What we’re performing is establishing evidence factors, correct now,” explained Working day. “In our [direct-to-consumer] small business, we have witnessed the consumer need is there.”
Day was chief govt of Lululemon from 2008 to 2013, then experienced the leading work at health food organization Effectiveness Kitchen. She currently sits on Kohl’s board.
Like a lot of commence-up fashion merchants today, Property of LR&C stresses sustainability, favoring elements that are considerably less unsafe to the natural environment in its products and solutions. It truly is also in the procedure of becoming a certified B Corporation, and it donates 3{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of web income to charity, Working day mentioned.
“If we don’t in fact make vogue sustainable and transparent, then we’re under no circumstances heading to transform the market,” she claimed. “That’s what we imagine the whitespace is and that no person is performing very well.”
Day explained Home of LR&C income have greater by about 70{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} above the earlier calendar year, from seven figures to 8 figures. She did not deliver any further more facts.
The enterprise a short while ago shut a far more than $7 million convertible giving with taking part investors such as private fairness organization Ames Watson, Harlem Money and Darco Capital, she claimed. It programs to use the funding to commit in incorporating far more outlets.
TUNE IN: The Home of LR&C will be presenting at ICR’s digital conference at 4:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
