Today is Opening Day! I’m excited! There’s no way to know who is going to win the World Series this year but I know who I want to win and I bet most people reading this know too. Because it’s Opening Day, I thought I would share a scene from last year that I really, really love.
Watch as the Rangers win their first World Series championship!
Good luck to all the teams and GO RANGERS!
I couldn’t let this day end without saying congratulations to my Texas Rangers, who won their first game of the 2023 season today! After the first three innings, I was feeling pretty down because the Phillies were leading, 5-0. But then, in the fourth inning, the rangers went from being down by 5 to being up by 4! We went on to win, 11-7.
That’s why I love baseball. It’s never over until you get that final out and a good team can always make a comeback. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that Rangers dominate on offense like that. I used to feel like the Rangers would give up if they found themselves down by a certain number of runs but I didn’t feel that way watching this game. Today, the Rangers were determinedto win. I hope it’s a sign of things to come.
It took them a while but the MLB finally uploaded the game’s highlights.
Happy Opening Day, baseball fans!
Here’s Aaron Judge hitting the very first home run of the 2023 season!
I’m watching the Rangers and the Phillies right now. At the end of the second inning, the Rangers are down by two runs. I think we can still come back though. It’s never over until the last out!
Good news! We’ve only got 11 more days to go until the start of the MLB regular season! Will this be the year that my Rangers finally get it together and return to the post-season for the first time since 2016? Even if we don’t make the post-season, can we at least have our first winning season in seven years? I hope so! But even if we don’t, I’ll still be cheering for my team and whoever represents the AL in the World Series!
(Unless it’s the Blue Jays.)
Here’s a video I found of every single Rangers homerun in 2022! Watching it and hearing “Gone!” over and over again has got me pumped up for the season!
Opening day is March 30th! The Rangers will be hosting the Phillies.
Today is the day that I look forward to every year. It’s the opening day of the 2018 MLB season! For nearly 150 years, baseball has been America’s pastime. Long before Andre Beltre and Mike Trout thrilled baseball fans with every swing of the bat, there were players like Hardy Richardson.
From 1875 until he retired in 1892, Hardy Richardson was one of the best players in major league baseball. He played for 14 seasons and for 6 different teams. When he was playing for Detroit, he led the team to victory in the 1887 World Series. He played every single position and his stats would make any player proud. Richardson appeared in 1,331 major league games, compiled a .299 batting average and .435 slugging percentage, and totaled 1,120 runs scored, 1,688 hits, 303 doubles, 126 triples, 70 home runs, 822 RBIs, and 377 bases on balls.
Richardson was also one of the first players known to have appeared on a baseball card. In 1887, if you bought a pack of Old Judge cigarettes, you could also get a baseball card celebrating the career of Hardy Richardson.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
It’s been over a hundred years since Hardy Richardson last swung a bat or stole a base but both his legacy and the legacy of everyone else who has ever played the game will continue today as the teams hit the field for the first time. Good luck to all the players on Opening Day!
GO RANGERS!
Through the Shattered Lens 