What an Opening

The Washington Nationals opened up their shiny new ballpark last night and they did it in style. It's not often that a team:

• opens a new stadium
• gets a walk-off home run
  
• gets a walk-off home run with two outs
• gets a walk-off home run from their franchise player

Despite the odds against any of those four situations occurring, that's exactly what happened in last night's game between Atlanta and Washington:

HR - R Zimmerman (1, 9th inning off P Moylan 0 on, 2 Out).

Ryan Zimmerman, the Nationals' franchise player, hit his walk-off home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to secure a win on Opening Night at the new Nationals Park. It doesn't get much better than that for Nationals fans.

Domo Arigato Major League Baseball

It's March 25th and the start of the baseball season is upon us. It feels weird to have actual MLB games being played this early, but the Opening Day in Japan has come and gone and the Red Sox and Athletics are both officially 1-1 on the season.

And it's not all that surprising that neither game really offered much in the way of box score nuggets. It's hard enough to find some within a full slate of games, but to glean something from two games across two days is just downright tough.

The "real" regular season kicks off this Sunday -- again, with one game -- and then gets fully under way on Monday, so I'll be back on Tuesday.