Last year, the Dodgers and Padres opened the Major League Baseball season a couple of weeks before everybody else by playing a series in Japan. The year before that, the league scheduled all 30 teams to play on the same Opening Day for the first time since 1968. In 2026, MLB will have an Opening Night, and the matchup they’ve chosen for this primetime spotlight has our favorite squadron hosting the New York Yankees at Oracle Park.

It feels very strange for the Giants to get tossed this sort of bone, as the franchise has done less than nothing for the better part of a decade to make them seem like appointment viewing or interesting to the casual baseball fan in any meaningful way. I think that’s the power of Rafael Devers, though. He’s a name East Coasters recognize and as putrid as the te

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