Overview
- With only two challenges per team per game, Baseball Savant’s new dashboard shows 54% of reviewed ball-strike calls have been overturned, with catchers winning 61% of their appeals and hitters 46%.
- Tension surfaced fast as Baltimore successfully flipped two late calls on ABS reviews and Twins manager Derek Shelton was ejected after arguing whether a pitcher signaled his challenge in time.
- The Mets finished their opening set with a 4-3, 10-inning loss to the Pirates when Francisco Lindor was thrown out at home on a Juan Soto double, capping a day with 16 New York strikeouts.
- New signing Bo Bichette started 1-for-14 with eight strikeouts and heard boos at Citi Field before the Mets departed for a six-game road trip to St. Louis and San Francisco.
- Elsewhere, Toronto’s rotation struck out 50 hitters over three games to set an MLB record as Dylan Cease punched out 12 in his debut, and rookies like Chase DeLauter, Kevin McGonigle, JJ Wetherholt, Munetaka Murakami and Carson Benge made immediate impacts.