ASTROS GET THEIR SEASON STARTED RIIIIIGHT ⚾🔥 Alex Bregman had 2 RBI and Framber Valdez pitched 6 2/3 shutout innings as the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Angels 3-1 in their 2022 season opener. DETAILS LevelUp HTX KPRC2
Alex Bregman had an early RBI single and a late homer as the Astros won their 10th straight season opener. That matches the mark posted in the late 19th century by the Boston Beaneaters — now the Atlanta Braves.
Ohtani struck out nine while pitching one-run ball into the fifth inning for the Angels, who lost their season opener for the eighth time in nine years. Last season’s AL MVP went 0 for 4 at the plate while taking advantage of baseball’s offseason rule change allowing him to remain the designated hitter after he finishes pitching.Michael Brantley doubled and scored on Bregman’s single off Ohtani in the third.
Ohtani didn’t win, but he made more baseball history: He became the first player in baseball history to throw his team’s first pitch of the season — a 99 mph fastball in the dirt to José Altuve — and to face his team’s first pitch of the season at the plate. Anthony Rendon went 0 for 4 and made two stellar defensive plays in the $245 million third baseman’s first appearance since last July 4, thanks to a nasty hip injury. He missed a go-ahead homer by inches down the left field line in the seventh, and he flied out with Trout on base in the ninth.
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