The 2016 Major League Baseball season gets under way today as the Pirates host the Cardinals, the Rays host the Blue Jays and the Royals host the Mets in a World Series rematch.
The Mets-Royals game will be ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast. Read more about Jessica Mendoza, who will be part of the Sunday night crew for ESPN this year here .
1:50 p.m.: The Pirates’ Gregory Polanco scores the season’s first run, giving Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second.
1:28 p.m.: The Cardinals lose the season’s first replay challenge:
1:17 p.m.: SN’s Jesse Spector is in midseason form:
1:15 p.m.: The season is under way as the Pirates’ Francisco Liriano pitches to Matt Carpenter of the Cardinals.
12:40 p.m.:
OPENING DAY 2016: Live scoreboard | Every team’s starting pitcher
