The 2020 MLB season may be postponed indefinitely but there's still a way to get your Opening Day fix on Thursday.
has been the absence of live sports on TV. With almost every league across the world suspended or postponed due to the global pandemic, networks have resorted to wheeling out classic games and highlight reels as fans look to quench their sport thirst by whichever means necessary.has been the only sporting event that carried on as normal despite the COVID-19 outbreak, but even that's running out of steam now that all the major chips have fallen.
fans did not even have the luxury of witnessing the season get underway, as Opening Day was scheduled for Thursday.With one of the showpiece events of the U.S. sporting calendar postponed indefinitely MLB Network will attempt to soften the blow by airing a marathon of great Opening Day moments, featuring five complete games., before the re-air of the New York Yankees' trip to Cleveland on Opening Day in 1996.
Following Jeter's heroics, attention switches to the Los Angeles Dodgers welcoming the San Francisco Giants on Opening Day 2013, with Clayton Kershaw pitching a shutout and hitting a home run for the Dodgers. Kershaw's performance was a sign of things to come, as he ended the season with a second Cy Young Award in three seasons, which he then successfully retained the following season.
The Giants feature again at 6 p.m. ET, with a re-air of their Opening Day game in Arizona against the Diamondbacks three years ago, which saw Madison Bumgarner and Zach Greinke go head-to-head in a pitching contest for the ages. The penultimate game on the schedule features the Colorado Rockies hosting the San Diego Padres in arguably one of the most exciting Opening Day games in the last two decades.
The final act of this year's unusual Opening Day comes at midnight, with MLB Network broadcasting the New York Mets' trip to Chicago on Opening Day in 1994, which saw Cubs' outfielder Tuffy Rhodes smash three home runs.
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