Yankees’ Opening Day win offers initial answers to season’s looming questions
Aaron Boone, third-generation baseball man, knows this drill. He wanted to get ahead of what he called “the week of overreaction.”
“Where we get off to a really good start and we’re going to win the World Series. We get off to a tough start this week, and it’s well, you know, you want to get rid of that noise.”
This is how Opening Day is. It is the sport’s Christmas Eve. You wait and wait, and then suddenly, the gift is here and it is the only game to review and, thus, it takes on outsized importance.
Yet, there is no correlation between beginning well and ending that way. Heading into 2025, the best Opening Day winning percentage belonged to the Mets, last champions in 1986. No. 2 are the Mariners, the only one of 30 current teams never even to reach the World Series. No. 3 are the Orioles, who last appeared in and won the Fall Classic in 1983.
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