Opening Day for the MLB was this past Thursday, March 28th, and several teams have gotten off to fast starts. The hottest of teams just might be the Bronx Bombers (definitely not the other New York team) getting off to a 4-0 start in H-Town.
The Yankees made their 2024 debut this Thursday in Houston, which looked shaky initially. Houston took a 4-0 lead in the second inning and not much had happened for the Yankees.
However, This changed in the fifth inning as the Yankees drove in three runs off of a hit from Juan Soto and some timely walks from Anthony Rizzo and Anthony Volpe. The Yankees never looked back scoring runs in each of the next two innings and securing a 5-4 victory on opening day.
The next two games for the Yankees were more of the same, working their way back from a deficit in each. Strong performances from both Soto and Oswaldo Cabrera were catalysts in both of the Yankees’ victories.
Sunday’s game was competitive, coming down to the final at-bat where Yankees’ closer Clay Holmes worked his way out of a jam thanks to a diving effort by Alex Verdugo.
The new Yankees’ additions had a great weekend, with great performances from Juan Soto, Marcus Stroman, and Jon Berti. Soto led the way, finishing the weekend with a .600 batting average, 1 home run, 4 runners batted in, and a 1.365 OPS.
The biggest negative of the weekend was the slow start from Yankees’ captain Aaron Judge, who tallied just two hits over the entire series. It is important to note that Judge is coming off an injury, and hopefully, he will find his rhythm this week in Arizona, or when they return to the Bronx on Friday.
And before you call me biased, tell me a bigger story in baseball than an ALCS team getting swept in their home stadium on opening weekend. There isn’t one…
