• Mets 2 Cincinnati 1: This is exactly how Omar Minaya must have pictured it when he drew up his offseason plan: A strong start by Johan Santana being turned over to a shutdown bullpen. One game in the plan looks good. Santana wasn’t his best, but he was more than good enough, striking out seven while allowing only one run in 5-2/3 innings.

    That left things up to the bullpen and the trio of Green, Putz and K-Rod allowed only one baserunner over the final 3-1/3. Daniel Murphy was the hitting star, getting two RBI’s one on a homer and one on a groundout.

  • Baltimore 10 Yankees 5: CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira will want to forget their Yankee debuts. Sabathia struggled with his command all game and Teixeira came up small in all the wrong places. Add it all up and the Yankees got creamed in their opening game. Then again, as Joe Girardi said, “I guess we’re not going to go 162-0”