The MLB 2017 opening day saw the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays fighting for the first game practically opening the tournament on Sunday, April 2. They faced each other at 1:00 p.m. Their game was immediately followed by the match pitting the San Francisco Giants versus the Arizona Diamondbacks at 4:00 p.m. The primetime game was the match of the champions Chicago Cubs against the St. Louis Cardinals at 8:30 p.m.
Early reports of the MLB 2017 showed disappointing results as far as Masahiro Tanaka and the New York Yankees are concerned. On opening day, the baseball team from New York seemed to have botched up their planned start for this season. Tanaka departed from the field only after 2 2/3 innings. It seems that his pitching skills on this day are ineffective against the Rays.
Tanaka allowed the Rays to get eight hits on seven runs. The team from Tampa Bay also got two home runs with the Yankees' pitcher throwing the ball. In addition, the pitcher walked two batters and fanned three. To top it all, his performance on MLB 2017 opening day, according to Baseball-Reference, was considered the worst ever posted by a Yankees' pitcher.
In game two of MLB 2017 opening day, the Giants blew their 5-4 lead earlier in the game and lost it all at zero time to the Diamondbacks. The final score is 6 for the Diamondbacks and 5 for the Giants. Some observers noticed that Sunday's results for the Giants were a lot like the results of last season. Bumgarner's excellent performance retiring the first 16 batters, striking out 11 and being the first pitcher to hit two home runs were all for nothing since his team lost.
The final game of MLB 2017 between the champion Cubs and the Cardinals as of this writing is still in its 9th inning. At this time, the score stands at three for the St. Louis Cardinals and zero for the Chicago Cubs.
