The opening week of the MLB season has at long last arrived. Baseball fans all over the world have been waiting for the day this great sport would return. COVID-19 took away 102 games and still is a threat to take away even more games. But while we have the games back let’s enjoy the sport we all love.<\/p>\n
Baseball will be different in 2020. The 60-game season will be unlike anything we have ever seen. Each game has so much more meaning with such a short season. MLB has expanded the playoffs to eight teams in each league. In a season where more than half the teams will qualify for the playoffs, the 60-game season will be a wild sprint to the end.<\/p>\n
Nothing sounds more like baseball than the sound of the bat hitting the baseball over the fence. That sweet sound of the crack of the bat is even more amplified this year with the absence of fans in the stands. In this first weekly installment of “This Week in Home Runs” we look back at the home run highlights of the past week. Overall 105 home runs were hit in 46 total games played.<\/p>\n
New York Yankees<\/a> slugger, Giancarlo Stanton<\/a><\/strong> hit the first homer of the season on Thursday night. Stanton\u2019s monstrous blast came to the dismay of the defending champion Washington Nationals<\/a>. This should be a very welcomed sight to Yankee fans as Stanton hit a pair of homers in the opening series. In this same game, Adam Eaton<\/a><\/strong> of the Nationals hit the first homer of the season by a National League player.<\/p>\n