LEADING OFF: 開始 day in DC, Dodger Stadium まっただ中に pandemic
A look at what´s happening around the majors today:
OPENING DAY
Washington エース Max Scherzer is 始める，決める to throw the first pitch of the coronavirus-延期するd season when he 直面するs Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees at 国家のs Park. Later, Los Angeles lefty Clayton Kershaw takes on the 競争相手 San Francisco 巨大（な）s at Dodger Stadium.
This 開始 day doubleheader begins the most unusual year in the history of Major League Baseball. Teams will play 60 games in ballparks without fans, with a whole new 始める，決める of 支配するs and safety 議定書s. Sound 影響s will be 麻薬を吸うd into stadiums and cardboard cutouts will 占領する many seats.
To start a season so 深く，強烈に 影響する／感情d by the ウイルス 突発／発生, the World Series 支持する／優勝者 国家のs will have Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation´s 最高の，を越す 感染性の 病気 専門家, 投げ上げる／ボディチェックする out the 儀式の first ball.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
An 開始 week logo is 陳列する，発揮するd at Citi Field during the New York Mets baseball practice, Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in New York. The Mets open the season in Friday against the Atlanta 勇敢に立ち向かうs. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New San Francisco 経営者／支配人 Gabe Kapler and several of his players knelt during the 国家の 国家 before an オープン戦 this week. He said everyone on the 巨大（な）s would be supported by the team no 事柄 what they chose to do.
"I 手配中の，お尋ね者 them to know that I wasn´t pleased with the way our country has 扱うd police brutality and I told them I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to amplify their 発言する／表明するs and I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to amplify the 発言する／表明する of the 黒人／ボイコット community and marginalized communities 同様に," Kapler said.
"So I told them that I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to use my 壇・綱領・公約 to 論証する my 不満 with the way we´ve 扱うd 人種差別主義 in our country. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 論証する my 不満 with our （疑いを）晴らす systemic 人種差別主義 in our country and I 手配中の，お尋ね者 them to know that they got to make their own 決定／判定勝ち（する）s and we would 尊敬（する）・点 and support those 決定／判定勝ち（する）s. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 them to feel 安全な in speaking up," he said.
Kapler, one of 10 new 経営者／支配人s in the majors this season, said some of the 巨大（な）s reached out to other organizations about their 計画（する）s.
A 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 stencil can be put on 投手's 塚s throughout the majors during the 開始 週末. MLB players can put a patch with "黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄" or "部隊d For Change" on a jersey sleeve during 開始 day.
HE´S IN
星／主役にする outfielder Mookie Betts debuts in Dodger blue, a day after getting a 12-year, $365 million 契約 with his new team. The 27-year-old Betts helped （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the ペテン師 in the 2018 World Series when he was the AL 最高殊勲選手 for Boston.
Popular outfielder Hunter Pence returns to the 巨大（な）s after a year in Texas. Infielder Starlin Castro, a solid .280 hitter in 10 major league seasons, joins the 国家のs.
HE´S OUT
巨大（な）s catcher Buster Posey is の中で a dozen or so players who have 選ぶd out of playing this season because of coronavirus 関心s. The six-time All-St ar, three-time World Series 支持する／優勝者 and 2012 NL 最高殊勲選手 and his wife have 可決する・採択するd 同一の twin girls who were born 未熟に.
Washington first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and ペテン師 投手 David Price also have chosen not to play.
RULEBOOK, PLEASE
The 実験 with 指定するd hitters at 国家の League fields will begin with the games at 国家のs Park and Dodger Stadium. The 審議 over the DH 激怒（する）d for １０年間s - now it´s been settled, at least for this year. Pencil ´em in, skip.
Also, relievers must 直面する at least three 乱打するs, or pitch until the end of an inning. So no bringing in a 味方する-winding southpaw just to 扱う a lefty 強打者.
加える, the really big change: Every half-inning starting in the 最高の，を越す of the 10th will begin with an (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 走者 on second base. Bunting, 迅速な pinch-走者s, a whole lot of things are in play. Not that a lot of fans are thrilled with this idea, by the way.
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An 全体にわたる 見解（をとる） of 国家のs Park during the Washington 国家のs baseball practice, Wednesday, July 22, 20 20, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
San Francisco 巨大（な）s' Jaylin Davis, left, and Austin Slater ひさまづく with others during the 国家の 国家 before an 展示 baseball game against the Oakland 運動競技のs in San Francisco, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
FILE - In this Sunday, July 12, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo, New York Yankees starting 投手 Gerrit Cole follows through on a pitch during an intrasquad baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. On Thursday, July 23, the Yankees play at the Washongton 国家のs. Juan Soto and Washington open their 肩書を与える 弁護 after winning the World Series for the first time in franchise history. Gerrit Cole is hoping to lead New York to its 28th 選手権 after the エース 権利-hander 調印するd a blockbuster を取り引きする the Yankees in 解放する／自由な 機関.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens, とじ込み／提出する)
Los Angeles ペテン師' Mookie Betts 飛行機で行くs out to 中心 field during the fourth inning of an 展示 baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Monday, July 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
