Katie StratmanImagn ImagesKevin Winterhalt has been a writer at Pinstripe Alley since April is a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in Diplomatic U. baseball gods are rarely kind enough that all the Yankees' rivals lose on the same Jazz Chisholm Jr. Jersey, the exact opposite almost Boston lost, and that's always 're also about to play the Astros and guarantee that at least one of our collective nemeses will lose each of the next few , Toronto continued their undefeated start against the contactaverse Athletics, keeping the Yanks company at the top of the standings, while Seattle won the first Sunday Night Baseball game on Peacock which will often simulcast on 's the skinny on Sunday's Red Sox 12 2, Cincinnati Reds 21 3Connelly Early took the mound for the BoSox Sunday and he continued to look like a problem for everyone outside of New only his fifth career major league start excluding postseason, Early tossed 5.1 innings of onerun ball for Boston, striking out did allow a decent amount of traffic, surrendering five hits and handing out two free , that had something to do with his high pitch count 9pitches ending his day , Early still looks good for Early left the game, however, one swing of the bat changed Yankee Greg Weissert entered in relief of the Boston starter, with a runner on first and one promptly walked Sal Stewart to bring the goahead run to the plate in the form of Eugenio Surez, who clubbed 49 home runs last season, and when his market never really materialized due to the limited other aspects of his game, he elected to return to Cincinnati on a oneyear, $15 million deal after leaving in followed should not really come as much of a rez turned on a 93mph fastball middlein and drove it out to left threerun bombthe 326th of his career, 190th in a Reds uniform, and first of 2026put Cincy on , the Reds' bullpen did yeoman's starter Rhett Lowder gave them five frames of tworun ball, four relievers combined to keep Boston from crossing home plate wasn't always pretty, as the parade of relievers combined to allow eight they got the job done, handing Beantown a seasonopening series hate to see Astros 22 9, Los Angeles Angels 22 7This Sunday tilt was especially notable, as it was the bigleague debut of Tatsuya Imai after he signed with Houston this for the Astros, his first start was uglier than a pair of used bowling consistently struggled to throw strikes, reaching a threeball count on eight of the first Angels hitters he the third Jose Caballero Jersey, they also started squaring him his offense dropped a fourspot in the home second, Imai gave all those runs back before being pulled after only 2.2 Angels took a 64 lead in the fourth on a tworun Zach Neto home run before Houston tied it in the fifth on a Christan Walker twoRBI there, the bullpens held the offenses down until the Astros broke through in the bottom of the one on and two out, the Angels opted to intentionally walk Yordan Alvarez and put the tying run on board, preferring to face Isaac , I don't hate the 't let the other guy's best player beat did not work, however, as Paredes is no slouch at the plate came through in the clutch with a tworun knock, and then Jose Altuve drove in a third run to make it 96, Angels did their best in the bottom of the ninth, scoring a seventh run and bringing the winning run to the , it wasn't quite I don't like Houston's longterm chances if they keep walking half a dozen or more hitters every Blue Jays 30 5, Athletics 03 2No walkoff today for the Blue Jays, who scored early and often on their way to sweeping the Athletics to begin their defense of their 2025 American League Eric Lauer went 5.1 for Toronto and he had the strikeout pitch working, as he whiffed nine Athletics hitters while allowing only two Toronto offense scored in four of the game's first five frames.A Springer Dinger to start the game https://www.newyorkfanoutlet.com/Cc_Sabathia_Jersey, the 64th leadoff home run of George Springer's career, immediately staked the Jays to a kept hitting long balls, with a Jess Snchez tworun shot in the third and a Kazuma Okamoto solo shot in the latter was the first of Okamoto's career after coming over from Japan this Athletics managed to dent the ledger in the fifth with a Max Muncy tworun the Jays immediately got one run back in the bottom of the fifth when Addison Barger walked with the bases there, the Jays bullpen took relievers combined to allow a mere two hits while walking Athletics never really came close today and the Jays joined the Yankees atop the AL East with a 30 also set a record, striking out 50 A's hitters in the series, the most in a team's first three games since Mariners 22 8, Cleveland Guardians 22 0Cleveland entered this one guaranteed a series split, while a victory would have meant outright winning a fourgame road seriesoth nothing to sneeze at on the road against a team that fell a couple innings shy of a pennant last , Guards starter Slade Cecconi did not have much going for righty allowed six runs over four innings, led by a threerun home run off the bat of Brendan starter Emerson Hancock, coming off a 2025 season that ended wih a 4.90 ERA, was probably not on many nohitter watch he hurled six innings of nohit ball before the pitch count monster 97 pitches ended his very next inning, the Guards got into the hit column against the Seattle bullpen, so the first nohitter of the season will have to , the M's bullpen held Cleveland out of the run column and Seattle tacked on a couple more runs to make this one 80 note, AL MVP runnerup Cal Raleigh recorded his first RBI of the season with a sixth inning up, the M's welcome the Yankees to town for a threegame set beginning tonight with Ryan Weathers facing Luis Castillo.