MLB Opening Day

MLB's Opening Day kicked off the 2025 season with a bang across the league, some in more parks than others.

There's good news, great performances, and no shortage of dingers.

Here's the best of day one of the 2025 MLB season.

Kirk Gibson, meet Freddie Freeman

Former 1988 World Series hero and champion Kirk Gibson threw out the first pitch to Freddie Freeman, the World Series MVP recipient from the 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers championship team. That's plenty on its own, given it's a joining of different generations of Dodgers' champs together for fans to see, but recall that Freeman played through a rib injury in the 2024 postseason. It might not have looked like it, given his performance, but, like Gibson and the pinch-hit homer he mashed despite a pair of leg injuries, he gutted it out and helped the Dodgers to another ring.

Kyle Stowers hits MLB's first walk-off of ‘25

Sure, Pittsburgh Pirates fans won't agree about this being a moment worth remembering from Opening Day, but Kyle Stowers and the Miami Marlins will. Tied 4-4 in the ninth with two on, Stower pulled a ball to right field, just fair, to bring the Fish their first W of the year.

Austin Wells makes history, not twice, but thrice

Before he even stepped on the field today, New York Yankees' catcher Austin Wells made team history as the first-ever backstop to bat leadoff for the club. What he did in that position was of much greater note, however: Wells hit a leadoff home run, which was not only the first-ever leadoff Opening Day homer by a Yankee, but also the first by a catcher for any team.

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