PITTSBURGH -- It took just five pitches for baseball’s most highly touted prospect to make an impact at the plate as he debuted Friday afternoon in the Pirates' home opener against Baltimore. Batting seventh and starting at short in front of a sellout crowd of 38,986 at PNC Park, Konnor

NEW YORK -- “Suits tomorrow.” That was the late-night directive from Aaron Judge, sent via text to teammates ahead of Friday’s home opener at Yankee Stadium -- crisp shirts, pressed slacks, shoes shined to a gleam.

CLEVELAND -- How’s this for a (re)introduction to Chase DeLauter, Guardians fans? The Guardians returned home from their season-opening seven-game road trip on Friday, and DeLauter continued his torrid start to his first big league season in Cleveland's home opener. The 24-year-old blasted a two-run home run in the seventh

Konnor Griffin is in the Majors. The Pirates promoted MLB Pipeline’s No. 1 overall prospect prior to their home opener on Friday -- several weeks before his 20th birthday.

There's a longstanding baseball-ism that says you'd rather be lucky than good. Cody Bellinger is good, but he wasn't afraid to give Lady Luck her due credit after he made a crazy catch in the Yankees' 8-2 win over the Marlins on Friday in their home opener. With nobody out

WASHINGTON -- With the Dodgers' home run party in full swing, Kyle Tucker joined in on the fun. Tucker went deep for the first time as a Dodger in L.A.'s 13-6 win on Friday afternoon, slugging a solo shot off Nationals left-hander Ken Waldichuk to extend Los Angeles' lead to

“Friday Night Baseball” on Apple TV is back for 2026! This week features a matchup a former MVP and two potential MVP candidates.

PITTSBURGH -- Konnor Griffin remembers sitting at PNC Park almost two years ago after he was drafted ninth overall in 2024, dreaming of what it would be like to take the field with the Pirates. He didn’t have to wait long. That dream became a reality Friday, as baseball’s No.

WASHINGTON -- Dating back to Cactus League play, Emmet Sheehan has been working with diminished velocity. But the Dodgers' right-hander showed that he may be able to overcome losing some speed on his fastball. Sheehan picked up his first win of the season in Friday's 13-6 victory over the Nats

DENVER -- It took about a week, but the Phillies finally broke out in a big way at the plate on Friday afternoon at Coors Field in a 10-1 victory over the Rockies to open Philadelphia’s first road trip of the season. Entering the day with a team slash line

BOSTON -- Willson Contreras was brought to the Red Sox for his energy, his grit, his defense and ... oh yeah, his pull-side power. Playing his first home game at Fenway Park, Contreras unleashed a towering 423-foot solo homer to left-center that soared over the Green Monster and wound up

Opening Day marks a new era for the longstanding relationship between MLB and ESPN. Though ESPN is no longer the home for “Sunday Night Baseball” (now on NBC) or the Home Run Derby (now on Netflix), the sports broadcasting network is actually bringing fans more baseball than ever.

CLEVELAND -- Cubs righty Cade Horton fired a fastball to Bo Naylor on Friday evening and immediately looked in the direction of the visitors’ dugout at Progressive Field. A moment later, catcher Carson Kelly was up out of the crouch and heading to the mound. Horton represents one of the

CHICAGO -- The Blue Jays have agreed to a one-year, $1 million deal with veteran lefty Patrick Corbin, the club announced shortly after Friday’s 5-4 loss in 10 innings against the White Sox at Rate Field. The 36-year-old Corbin has 13 seasons of big league experience under his belt, most

The focus on Jordan Walker early in the season has been on his hot start at the plate, but a laser from right field at Comerica Park to nail Detroit's Javier Báez at home on Friday reminded everyone of just how far the 23-year-old has come defensively. The game was

ARLINGTON -- Take away rookie Sal Stewart's meteoric start to the 2026 season and it's been rough sledding early on for much of the Reds’ lineup. But two of their struggling hitters came up big on Friday afternoon against the Rangers when the club needed it most. Tyler Stephenson delivered

MINNEAPOLIS -- A downtown Minneapolis power outage briefly delayed the Twins’ home opener on Friday.

CHICAGO -- In five awful minutes on Friday, the Blue Jays lost Alejandro Kirk and the game, but Kirk is far more worrying. Kirk underwent X-rays on his left thumb after leaving Friday’s 5-4 loss to the White Sox at Rate Field in the 10th inning, and outside of Vladimir

DETROIT -- For a few innings Friday, the Tigers seemed just as snakebitten in their return to Comerica Park as they were for three days in Arizona. Framber Valdez and Dillon Dingler turned their fortunes around in one inning. It wasn’t as easy as the 4-0 win over the Cardinals

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When the Dodgers took the field on Friday ahead of their 13-6 win over the Nationals in Washington, D.C., they made history. And it had little to do with the superstar-filled roster that has brought the club two straight World Series championships. The Dodgers wore blue jerseys, which will be

D-backs outfielder Jordan Lawlar is expected to miss six to nine weeks with a broken right wrist, manager Torey Lovullo announced Friday.

NEW YORK -- The gold medals made it from Milan to the Bronx. Fresh off leading Team USA to Olympic glory, Aerin Frankel and Jack Hughes continued their celebrations by trading ice for the Yankee Stadium mound, delivering ceremonial first pitches ahead of the Yankees’ home opener against the Marlins

WASHINGTON -- When Shohei Ohtani goes, so do the Dodgers. And that was true in a big way in Friday afternoon's 13-6 victory over the Nationals. Ohtani launched his first home run of the season in the third inning, a three-run blast that tied the contest at 3 before the