To help fill the baseball void, we’re flipping the calendar back one year to remind us all just how awesome our great game really is. Here's a look back at the best of March 30, 2019:

The year 2019 in the National League was about "Yeli and Belli" -- reigning NL MVP Christian Yelich of the Brewers and Dodgers slugger Cody Bellinger would spend the season as the runaway favorites to be named MVP, and on March 30, they gave us all our first preview of the competition to come.

Yelich launched a home run for the third straight game to open the season, becoming the first Brewers player to ever accomplish that feat in a 4-2 Milwaukee win over the Cardinals at Miller Park. He would hit another the following day to make it 4-for-4. Meanwhile, Bellinger smashed a pair of homers and made a sparkling catch in right field during the Dodgers' 18-5 victory over the D-backs at Dodger Stadium.

Yelich went on to put up even better numbers than in his MVP campaign the prior season, slashing .329/.429/.671, leading the league in batting average and on-base percentage, while leading the Majors in slugging. He also belted a career-best 44 homers. But in the end, he was outdone by Bellinger, who had a first half for the ages and despite cooling off after the All-Star break, finished with a .305/.406/.629 slash line to go along with 47 homers in 26 more games than Yelich, who was limited to 130 games by injury.

The best of the rest:

Harper hits first homer with Phillies: Bryce Harper, fresh off signing a 13-year, $330 million contract over the offseason, launched his first home run with the Phillies in an 8-6 win over the Braves at Citizens Bank Park. He got a curtain call from the Philly faithful, and it would be the first of 35 homers he'd hit in his first season in Philadelphia.

Hader's immaculate inning: Josh Hader is one of the most dominant relievers in baseball. We all knew that heading into the 2019 season. But you can't be more dominant in a single inning than the left-hander was on March 30 against the Cardinals at Miller Park. He came in for the ninth and blew away Tyler O'Neill, Dexter Fowler and Yairo Muñoz on nine pitches to strike out the side and close out a 4-2 Milwaukee victory.

Alonso's first two extra-base hits: Pete Alonso had a great rookie year in 2019 -- he led the Majors with 53 homers (a rookie record) and won the Home Run Derby. In all, he had 85 extra-base hits last season, and the first two of them came in an 11-8 loss to the Nationals in Washington on March 30. His first career extra-base hit was a second-inning RBI double to center off Stephen Strasburg, and his second was another RBI double in the eighth off Kyle Barraclough.