The baseball season arrived before April spring storms and in fact until April. And those April storms, which often delayed the games of America, were more likely to rain in 2018.
However, baseball played, albeit among frigid weather and snow deferments. Twenty-four games were delayed due to the inclement weather, the longest one month in American history.
However, the weather was not the only crazy aspect of the first month of the 2018 season, in which rare strange events appeared in the first five weeks. As a clear indication of the trend that has been built over the past few years, a total of 6,392 strikeouts and 6003 hits were noted for the first time in history that there were more blows than basic hits in a month.
Also for the first time in history, the attacker saw more than twenty pitches in battle. San Francisco's first baseman drowned out a pitch after a field from Houston right-hander Lance McCullers, bringing the plate to an appearance that showed 21 deliveries and glued in over fifteen minutes.
The manager was fired before the end of the first month for the first time in sixteen years, as Cincinnati managed Brian Price after the Reds won only three of their first twenty games. Since 2002, no manager was fired as quickly as when Detroit gave a pink slip to Phil Garner after the Tigers went zero and six starts.
Baseball has really experienced some good oddities in this early period, including impressive beginner performance. Los Angeles Shoehei Ohtani Angels became the first player in the history of the Big League to win two games and four runs in four months.
Fans in the Bay area north of where Ohthani is now calling home also experienced some good news on April 17, the game against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday evening. In the Oakland Athletics held a competition in the Colosseum, in which you could take part in the action for free to celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary.
The latest crazy detail could be served on both the good news and the bad. Minnesota traveled for more than two weeks, not playing a game on its park with a home ball, challenging the Twins with the longest such strip ever during the month of the season opening. Fuzzy weather, combined with the series in Puerto Rico against the Cleveland Indians, kept them away from Target Field.
However, manager Paul Molitor and his players should be welcomed when he believes that only last September another club had to spend an even longer spell away from home. After Hurricane Harvey defeated the Houston area, the Astros spent most of September, playing elsewhere. Just over a month later, the team celebrated its first World Series championship in its fifty-five year history.
