The 2010 baseball season finally kicks off tonight, as our beloved Yankees take on the Boston Red Sox at 8:05pm at Fenway Park. Toeing the rubber for the Yankees for his second straight Opening Day start is CC Sabathia, who will be opposed by Josh Beckett. I haven’t seen the lineup yet, but it probably looks like this:

SS Jeter
DH Johnson
1B Teixeira
3B Rodriguez
2B Cano
C Posada
CF Granderson
RF Swisher
LF Gardner

I wonder how many other teams have their outfielders in the bottom three slots of the lineup.

I also thought it’d be fun to go back and see how the Yanks have done during the last 20 Opening Days:

13-7. Not too shabby.

See you at the first pitch.

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3 Responses to Opening Day 2010

  1. Craig K says:

    LETS GO YANKS!!!

  2. Brendan says:

    Really interesting that seven of the opposing pitchers of record were also Yankees at one point (Orosco, Gibson, Clemens, Brown, Rogers, Erickson, Wells)

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