Don’t look now, but one month of the season is already in the books.
Okay, not exactly, as, while March is now over, teams only ever play a handful of regular season games in the month. However, we are now fully into the swing of the 2026 season, with every team having a handful of games under their belts.
For the Yankees, Wednesday saw Max Fried dominate and Giancarlo Stanton keep up his wild streak of multi-hit games, as they bounced back to take a second game in Seattle. It’s been a pretty good
start so far, with Monday’s loss still the only one they’ve taken on the season, but now let’s check in on some of the AL competition to see if they kept pace on Tuesday.
Toronto Blue Jays (4-1) 5, Colorado Rockies (1-4) 1
After unexpectedly taking their first loss of the season on Monday, the Blue Jays bounced back in the second game of their series against the Rockies, led by Max Scherzer.
In six innings, Scherzer allowed just one run on four hits and a walk, while striking out four. However for a while, he was locked in a pitcher’s duel, as the Toronto offense was unable to score against Ryan Feltner. The Jays’ breakthrough eventually came in the fifth, when Jesús Sánchez dropped in RBI single into shallow center field. Vladmir Guerrero Jr. doubled the advantage with a bases loaded walk shortly after that.
While Hunter Goodman homered to immediately answer for Colorado, that’s all they would get for the day. Toronto tacked on another couple runs after that, while the Rockies didn’t have an answer.
Houston Astros (4-2) 9, Boston Red Sox (1-4) 2
The Astros scored in the first inning and kept the offense coming and got a strong outing from Hunter Brown, as they cruised past the scuffling Red Sox.
Yordan Alvarez got the party started for Houston with an RBI double in the first inning, but it was a while before the Astros really started to distance themselves from Boston. Christian Walker brought home two more with a third inning single, but Boston answered back on Connor Wong’s double in the fifth.
However after that, Houston began to pour it on. Alvarez led the way with a homer as the Astros put up another three runs in the bottom of the fifth. They never really had to worry about Boston coming back after that thanks to their pitching.
Brown was very good in his six innings, with that RBI hit from Wong being the only hit he allowed. He did walk two, but also struck out eight Red Sox. Boston did get a couple more hit in Astros’ reliever Cody Bolton’s three innings of work, but it was too little, too late by then.
Detroit Tigers (2-3) 5, Arizona Diamondbacks (2-3) 7
The Tigers seemed to be cruising towards an easy win in this one, but a six-run eighth inning from the Diamondbacks completely flipped the script.
Casey Mize got the start on the mound for Detroit, and he impressed, striking out nine while allowing just one run in six innings. Meanwhile, he got a good amount of run support when the Tigers put up a five spot in the third inning. Kevin McGonigle continued his nice start to his MLB career, when Riley Greene drove home two runs in the third. The crooked number seemed like it was going to hold up, as Arizona had mustered just one run in seven innings.
Arizona got the eighth inning off to a decent start, when the first three batters reached to load the bases. Despite a pitching change, Corbin Carroll then drove home two with a double. Tigers’ reliever Will Vest then got two outs, although one run did score in the process, coming on a ground out.
At that point, Detroit brought in veteran closer Kenley Jansen to try and lock things down. However instead, he gave up a three-run homer to rookie infielder Jose Fernandez, as Arizona had come all the way back to take the lead. The ensuing top of the ninth was then fairly uneventful as the Tigers were left to stew over their loss.
