On Judge-ment Day, SF Giants handed Opening Day loss by former free agent pursuit

Logan Webb and Gerrit Cole each set franchise strikeout records for Opening Day, while Aaron Judge homered in his first AB vs. Giants.

NEW YORK — Hollywood script writers couldn’t have set the stage any better: MLB’s most-prized free agent target, playing host on Opening Day to the team he spurned, being pitched to by their staff ace, after being pitched by him this offseason.And whether it played out on the big screen or on Broadway or on a parcel of former swampland in the Bronx, there was only one way that first at-bat was going to end.

Both starting pitchers set franchise records for strikeouts on Opening Day — the first nine outs of the game came via punchouts — but ultimately the two stellar outings were separated by two mistake pitches, both sinkers from Webb that caught too much of the plate. Besides those two pitches, the Giants couldn’t have asked much more of Webb in his second Opening Day start.

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