When the Astros acquired Cam Smith in the Kyle Tucker trade in December, the idea was that he'd need at least most of this season in the Minors before taking over the third-base job in Houston. But ...

1993 — At Camden Yards, Bill Clinton becomes the first ... 2016 — Colorado Rockies SS Trevor Story becomes the first player to hit two homers in his debut on Opening Day. 2018 — MLB experiments with a ...

1993 — The expansion Florida Marlins won their first ... including nearly $44 million going to players no longer on the team. Major League Baseball’s average salary on opening day also set a mark at ...

1947 — Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Dodgers. He went 0-for-3, but scored the deciding run in a ...

But Ryan Bliss, making his opening day ... by fall 1993, already assembled the core cast of characters that would come to define the greatest era of baseball this region has known.

1988 — George Bell became the first player to hit three home runs on opening day, leading the Toronto Blue Jays past the Kansas City Royals 5-3. Bell, bitter throughout spring training with his move ...

TNT Sports and CBS Sports are Delivering the NCAA Tournament's Best Viewership Since 1993, Averaging ... include Major League Baseball and Fox ruining Opening Day with several terrible decisions ...

Rhodes went on to play 13 years in Nippon Professional Baseball and launch 464 ... for the Seattle Mariners on Opening Day, turning the trick in 1993 and 1996. Cleveland Guardians ace Shane ...

No one is surprised that West Coast additions UCLA, Oregon, Southern California and Washington are lined up in a row in the ...

Opening Day (stateside ... they never pitched him on the fifth day, electing always to give him that “extra” day. (“Extra” in quotes because for years now most MLB starts are made on ...

1947 — Dodgers manager Leo Durocher was suspended for one year by commissioner Happy Chandler for “the accumulation of unpleasant incidents” detrimental to baseball ... to execute a triple play on ...

1974 — In the opener in Atlanta, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s career record by hitting his 715th home run off Los Angeles ...