After the hype, such as that was, Netflix got caught flat-footed in their initial MLB broadcast Wednesday night.
The Yankees' Jose Caballero initiated the first regular season ABS ball-strike challenge, and lost. However, Netflix's attention was on first year San Francisco manager Tony Vitello, formerly of the university of Tennessee, and the cameras missed the challenge!!
Like, you can't predict live TV, but......!
Anyway, the Yanks spoiled Vitello's MLB debut with a 7-0 win. The series resumes tomorrow night.
Today, though, brought a number of firsts, all of them for rookies.
Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox hit his first American homer, but the game was already decided in the 9th inning, with Milwaukee blowing away Chicago, 14-2.
The Mets' Carson Benge put New York's home opener vs. Pittsburgh out of reach, or so we thought......
The Mets' Francisco Alvarez followed with a moonshot of his own, and the Mets had to sweat out the 9th inning to win their opener, 11-7.
Meanwhile, JJ Wederholt (St. Louis) & Joey Wiemer (Washington) also went deep in their debuts.
Back to the Mets, who knocked out reigning NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes with a 5 run first inning. Skenes, presumably still feeling the effects of Team USA losing the World Baseball Classic a week ago, just didn't have it. No one saw this coming.
Yankees announcer Michael Kay was not a happy camper in San Francisco on Wednesday.
With the game on Netflix, thanks to MLB's new deal, meaning more greed for MLB, Kay was in the bleachers at Oracle Park, and will call Friday's Yankees-Giants game. He didn't like the idea of the game being on Netflix in the first place, and we'd guess because he wasn't asked to call the game. Salty much?
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