Happy Opening Day to those who celebrate — except, of course, for the Milwaukee Brewers, who are not only an NL Central rival of the Chicago Cubs, but also the Opening Day opponent of the Chicago White Sox. For at least the next three games, Chicago can unite around that. And speaking of the Brewers, they’ll open the season without star outfielder Jackson Chourio, who is expected to miss the next two to four weeks with a hairline fracture in his left middle finger.
Brewers Open Season Without Jackson Chourio
The Brewers took an early hit before first pitch even arrived, placing Jackson Chourio on the 10-day injured list after imaging revealed a small fracture in his left hand.
The injury dates back to March 4, when Chourio was hit by a pitch while playing for Venezuela in a World Baseball Classic tune-up, and it apparently flared up again after he felt pain on a check swing in an exhibition game against the Cincinnati Reds.
Milwaukee recalled Blake Perkins to fill the roster spot, but there’s no dressing this one up: losing Chourio for any stretch is a tough way to open the year. The good news for the Brewers is the projected timeline is only two to four weeks, not months, but it still puts one of their most dynamic players on the shelf right as the season begins.
The Cubs don’t play Milwaukee until May 18, so this one might not help them directly, but perhaps in the standings between now and then.
Mandatory Credit: Michael McLoone-Imagn ImagesMLB’s New Coach-Box Enforcement Has Base Coaches Worried
Opening Day also arrives with a new point of tension around the field, and this one has nothing to do with the hitters or pitchers.
MLB’s stricter enforcement of the coaches’ box rule has first- and third-base coaches openly questioning whether the league has put them in a more dangerous spot. The rule is aimed at preventing coaches from drifting too far into the outfield to steal a look at pitch grips, but the pushback is obvious: in a game full of triple-digit exit velocities, standing boxed into foul territory closer to the action leaves very little margin for reaction time.
Coaches around the league, including Dave McKay, Sandy Alomar Jr., Quintin Berry, and even Aaron Boone, all voiced a similar concern in a recent story at The Athletic.
© Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images“Every third base coach, we’ve all been talking about how you’re constantly in danger,” said Chicago Cubs third-base coach Quintin Berry. “You never get a chance to get out of there. You can’t get out of harm’s way, ever. And I get what they’re trying to do. But you’re not going to stop anything by putting people in a box.”
The competitive issue is real, but so is the safety issue. MLB says it will monitor enforcement throughout the season, but the early reaction suggests this won’t be the last time the rule is discussed.
Netflix’s MLB Debut Was Fine (Once It Remembered the Game Was the Point)
As for MLB Opening Night and Netflix’s first live MLB broadcast, the biggest takeaway was pretty simple: once the game actually got going, it was mostly fine.
Matt Vasgersian was a strong choice on play-by-play, and the booth with CC Sabathia and Hunter Pence worked best when it focused on the game itself. That was the trick, though. Too much of the pregame felt like Netflix promoting Netflix instead of letting Major League Baseball and Opening Day carry the show.
There were celebrity bits, overproduced intros, and enough self-promotion to make it feel like the streamer occasionally forgot why people tuned in. But the stream worked, the picture was solid, and the actual broadcast was clean enough once baseball took center stage. That’s really the lesson here: nobody turned on Netflix because they wanted more Netflix. They turned it on to watch the New York Yankees and the San Francisco Giants start the new season.
Extra Innings
The Mets inked veteran outfielder Tommy Pham to a minor league deal this morning. New York announced this week that rookie Carson Benge will open the season on the major league roster after a late spring training injury to Mike Tauchman. Pham returns to the Mets, where he spent 79 games in 2023.Mets, OF Tommy Pham reportedly agree to Minor League deal, per multiple reports including MLB's @Feinsand. pic.twitter.com/qo6fEQVHeg
— MLB (@MLB) March 26, 2026 Major League Baseball returns to NBC today with a doubleheader. They’ll have the Pirates and Mets at noon and the Diamondbacks and Dodgers at 7:30 p.m. tonight.>>MLB returns to NBC with an EPIC doubleheader. Pirates-Mets: 1 pm ETD-backs-Dodgers: 8:30 pm ET#OpeningDay pic.twitter.com/oyddTj8tRp
— MLB (@MLB) March 26, 2026 Max Fried was dominant last night in San Francisco, allowing no runs on two hits in 6.1 innings of work while striking out four in the Yankees’ victory over the Giants.6.1 IP | 2 H | 4 Ks | 0 ERMax Fried was cooking on #OpeningNight pic.twitter.com/mz2a55ATTy
— MLB Europe (@MLBEurope) March 26, 2026 Happy Opening Day, friends—enjoy!>> pic.twitter.com/vRg7XNua5u
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