Opening Day Updates

With the start of the new baseball season, i figured i would watch the early games and give you my impressions:

Indians 12, White Sox 5

The White Sox are off to a tough start, which is bad news for the Chicagoians, though they do have the Cubs which are almost always guaranteed a World Series win every 100 years or so. In this game CC Sabathia was able to eat his way to a win, literally. He ate 1st base, which made it difficult for the Sox to get on base as they had to try for a double with each at bat. Joe Borowski, the Indians closer had some trouble keeping the 12-3 lead, which doesnt bode well for Poland in the next World Baseball Classic. On the White Sox side, Contreras held up his part of the teams plan for allowing every player that reaches base to score, but reliever Nick Massett is not a team player as he stranded a few runners. Also if the White Sox are going to rely on 56 year old Darin Erstad for their power, they could be in trouble.

Blue Jays 5, Tigers 3

The Tigers fans have already annoited them the division winners. The good news is that new acquisition Gary Sheffield was able to get 2 RBI's with no hits. This is what the Tigers expected out of him, staring down the 3rd base umpire until he freaks out and allows the runner to advance so he can ground out to CF without actually running to the base. The Tigers chances of winning the division were greatly diminished by losing to a team from Canada, though their metric system does give them an advantage in scoring.

Yankees 9, Devil Rays 5

A-Rod continued his impressive array of hitting HR's with a lead or being way behind. With Carl Pavano your opening day started there is a good chance most of those HR's will be of the latter variety. Posada allowed 3 SB's, but it was understandable as all occured with Delmon Young at the plate and he was afraid of this stat line for Delmon: 1 base hit, 1 umpire hit, 1 helmet thrown at a batboy, and 1 fan poked in the chest with his finger.

Ok, that was the early American League score, will get to the NL later as it is now time to watch my Twins...