The 2016 baseball season is here with three games on tap Sunday. Stay with Sporting News all afternoon for updates, scores, highlights, funny moments and more.
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:
Less than an inning into the first game of the season and #Cardinals are out of challenges after HBP call on the field is confirmed #Pirates
— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) April 3, 2016
1:17 p.m.: SN's Jesse Spector is in midseason form:
good lord john jaso pic.twitter.com/F0UW3SDQnH
— Jesse Spector (@jessespector) April 3, 2016
1:15 p.m.: The season is under way as the Pirates' Francisco Liriano pitches to Matt Carpenter of the Cardinals.
Three up, three down for Frankie!#LETSGOBUCS pic.twitter.com/FemA9falZL
— Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) April 3, 2016
12:40 p.m.:
Real baseball today, guys! pic.twitter.com/V6N89b4AqJ
— Sporting News MLB (@SN_Baseball) April 3, 2016
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