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Matt Olson hit a walk-off grand slam in the 10th to give the A's a 7-3 win over the Angels in the first major league game with the new, unpopular extra-inning rule.

The Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles acknowledged the nation's social justice movement prior to their Opening Day game at Fenway Park on Friday night.

Shane Bieber's 14 strikeouts were the most in the majors in an opener since Hall of Famer Randy Johnson also fanned 14 in 1996 and the most ever without a run on Opening Day.

Cubs righty Kyle Hendricks threw the first Opening Day complete game since 2013 in a 3-0 win over Milwaukee on Friday.

Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo brought pandemic courtesy to the baseball field on Friday as he offered hand sanitizer to Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Orlando Arcia after a third-inning single on Friday.

Yoenis Cespedes homered for the first time since his previous major league game in July 2018 to give the Mets a 1-0 win in their season opener.

For their delayed home opener, the Indians elected to wear their blue road jerseys with "Cleveland" on the front as a unified statement of solidarity for minorities as the team contemplates a name change.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said Friday that the back injury that put him on the 10-day injured list is "not too serious" and "getting better pretty quick," adding that he is "optimistic" he will return shortly after he is first eligible to next Friday.

The Yankees' rain-shortened win at the Nationals on Thursday averaged 4 million viewers on ESPN, according to Nielsen -- the sport's most-watched regular-season game on any network since August 2011.

Marlins catcher Jorge Alfaro was put on the injured list before their season opener at Philadelphia for unspecified reasons.

There have been 99 new positive tests for the coronavirus out of 32,640 overall samples since Major League Baseball began intake screening June 27.

Major League Baseball said 291 of the 1,026 players on Opening Day rosters were born outside the 50 states, which comes to 28.4% -- down slightly from 28.5% last year.

The displaced Toronto Blue Jays will play the majority of their 2020 home games in Buffalo amid the coronavirus pandemic, the team announced Friday.

The Rays used a tweet about Opening Day to present a social justice message by mentioning the name of Breonna Taylor.

Major League Baseball said 288 of the 1,026 players on Opening Day rosters were born outside the 50 states, which comes to 28.1% -- down slightly from 28.5% last year.

The displaced Toronto Blue Jays will play in Buffalo this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, the team announced Friday.

The Atlanta Braves will be without their top two catchers, Tyler Flowers and Travis d'Arnaud, for Friday's opening game at the New York Mets after both players showed symptoms of the coronavirus.

On July 24, 1983, George Brett hit a go-ahead homer at Yankee Stadium, but then went bananas when it was (temporarily) disallowed.

Opening Night saw a star player's positive test, an unrelenting storm and constant reminders of the challenges of playing through a pandemic.

The Cubs' new television network, called Marquee, has a last-minute agreement with Chicagoland's largest cable provider, Comcast, to air their games.