MLB Opening Day 2022 – What we’re watching, live updates and takeaways as baseball returns
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It’s Opening Day of the 2022 MLB season, and we’ve already seen our fair share of huge home runs, great plays and clutch pitching.
Beginning with seven Opening Day games on Thursday and continuing with the rest of MLB in action Friday, it’s time to welcome in a new year on the diamond. To celebrate baseball’s return, we’ve asked our experts to weigh in on what they are most excited to watch — and make a fearless Opening Day prediction.
Be sure to refresh this page early and often for our live updates and takeaways from every Opening Day game on both Thursday and Friday.
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Thursday’s Opening Day schedule
All times Eastern
9:40 p.m.: Padres (Darvish) at Diamondbacks (Bumgarner)
Friday openers: Red Sox-Yankees, White Sox-Tigers, A’s-Phillies, Orioles-Rays, Dodgers-Rockies, Mariners-Twins, Marlins-Giants and Rangers-Blue Jays
Trout is ready to stay healthy, win in the playoffs
It has been six years since Mike Trout played a full, traditional season without missing stretches of time because of injury.
He has noticed.
“It’s my main goal,” Trout, speaking ahead of Opening Day on Thursday, said when asked about the importance of playing a full season. The Los Angeles Angels’ star center fielder, who spent the last four-plus months of the 2021 regular season sidelined by a calf injury that became far more serious than expected, has a new program with the team’s new training staff that emphasizes flexibility and mobility in his lower body. Trout hopes it will make all the difference.
“In the past, I would wake up sore a little bit and just have to grind through it,” he said. “Now I gotta really harp on taking care of my lower body.”
The Angels lost 85 games last year even though Shohei Ohtani put together a historic season as a…
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