Yankees 5, Giants 0

New York: Aaron Judge’s first swing of the season ended up just like 62 others last year: a soaring home run.

In his first game as Yankees captain, Judge’s solo drive in the first inning off Logan Webb started New York to a win over San Francisco.

Instead, Judge emerged from the first-base dugout to loud cheers from the crowd of 46,172 during pregame introductions. A short while later, he hit a 422-foot shot into the netting above Monument Park in center field, the first home run of the major league season.

Just before opening day last year, Judge turned down the Yankees’ offer of $213.5 million over seven years through 2029, betting on himself.

Judge hit .311 with 62 homers and 131 RBIS en route to the AL MVP award. He broke the AL home record that had stood since Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961 and tied for the major league RBIS lead.

Judge agreed to a $360 million, nine-year contract with the Yankees.

Braves 7, Nationals 2

Washington: Atlanta overcame the early exit of NL Cy Young Award runner-up Max Fried because of a bad leg with four hits by Travis d’arnaud and three errors by Washington shortstop CJ Abrams during a victory over the Nationals.

The temperature was 45 degrees at first pitch, players from both teams lost balls in the bright daylight, and there were a total of five errors.

Designated hitter d’arnaud capped his afternoon with a two-run double in the ninth and Austin Riley walked three times for Atlanta, which is coming off five NL East titles in a row. Washington finished last in the division each of the past three years.

Fried allowed one run before departing with a strained left hamstring after he ran to cover first base in the fourth inning. Manager Brian Snitker said Fried will miss a start and probably head to the 10-day injured list.

Lucas Luetge (1-0), one of five Braves relievers, was credited with the win.

Washington lefty Patrick Corbin (0-1) picked up right where he left off the past two seasons, lasting just one batter into the fourth inning and departing with a 6.00 ERA after giving up four runs, two earned. No pitcher in the big leagues had more losses in 2022 than his 19 or in 2021 than his 16.

White Sox 3, Astros 2

Houston: Andrew Vaughn’s tiebreaking, two-run double in the ninth inning lifted Chicago over the defending World Series champion Astros in their season opener.

The game was tied 1-all after a homer by Chicago’s Yasmani Grandal in the eighth. Ryan Pressly (0-1) walked Tim Anderson with one out in the ninth before a single by Luis Robert Jr.

Vaughn then belted a double on a line drive that sailed over the head of leaping second baseman Mauricio Dubón and into center field to put the White Sox on top.

Pedro Grifol got the win in his managerial debut after spending the last 10 seasons as a coach with the Royals. It snapped a streak of 10 opener wins for the Astros.

White Sox ace Dylan Cease allowed two hits and a run with 10 strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings in his first opening-day start.

Rays 4, Tigers 0

St. Petersburg, Fla.: Shane Mcclanahan pitched six sharp innings, Jose Siri and Wander Franco homered and Tampa Bay opened their silver anniversary season with a victory over the Detroit Tigers.

With an opening day roster that only includes two newcomers to the team — pitchers Zach Eflin and Kevin Kelly — the Rays feel they have everything it takes to not only earn another postseason berth, but make a deep run.

Solid pitching, timely hitting and stellar defense — like Manuel Margot’s diving catch in right field saved at least one run in the seventh inning — once again figure to be the key to the budget-minded club’s success.

Rangers 11, Phillies 7

Arlington, Texas: Jacob degrom and Aaron Nola didn’t have the kind of pitchers’ duel that many had anticipated when they faced off in the season opener.

Robbie Grossman and Brad Miller homered in a big comeback for Texas after prized acquisition degrom struggled in his debut, and the Rangers beat Nola and the National League champion Phillies.

Grossman, a free-agent addition who earned the starting left field job in spring training, hit a threerun homer that tied the game at 5-5 in the middle of a nine-run outburst in the fourth inning. An inning later, Miller became the first Rangers player in 11 years to homer in consecutive season openers.

While degrom struck out seven without a walk, the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner allowed five runs on six extra-base hits in his 3 2/3 innings.

Twins 2, Royals 0

Kansas City, Mo.: Pablo Lopez dominated Kansas City in his Minnesota debut, outpitching former Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke by allowing just two hits while lasting into the sixth inning. Lopez’s bullpen took over from there, holding the Royals without another hit to finish off the win.

Lopez walked three and struck out eight before leaving after 5 1/3 innings. By that point, Trevor Larnach and pinch-hitter Donovan Solano had driven in runs to give Minnesota the lead, and a trio of relievers carried it into the ninth inning.

Jhoan Duran worked around a walk to earn the save, closing out a game played in a tidy 2 hours, 32 minutes.

Pirates 5, Reds 4

Cincinnati: Oneil Cruz homered shortly after a pitch clock violation and later drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, helping Pittsburgh open the season by beating Cincinnati.

The game was played in 3 hours, 2 minutes under new rules this season designed to speed things up. There were a combined 15 walks and 26 strikeouts which contributed to the game’s length.

There were two pitch-clock violations in, committed by Reds starter Hunter Greene in the third and Pirates starter Mitch Keller in the fourth. Both at-bats ended with home runs.

Keller fanned eight over 4 1/3 innings.

Greene committed the Reds’ first clock violation turning an 0-2 count to 1-2 against Cruz leading off the third.

Blue Jays 10, Cardinals 9

St. Louis: George Springer had five hits and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in three runs as Toronto beat St. Louis despite the Cardinals’ Tyler O’neill tying a major league record by homering on opening day for the fourth straight season.

Making his Cardinals debut, catcher Willson Contreras left after the eighth inning because of an injured knee.

Springer was 5 for 6 with five singles in the fourth five-hit game of his big league career to go along with a six-game game for Houston at Oakland in May 2018. Springer combined with Baltimore’s Adley Rutschman to become the first pair of players with five hits each on opening day since at least 1901.

Mets 5, Marlins 3

Miami: Brandon Nimmo broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run double, sending Max Scherzer and New York past Miami.

Scherzer (1-0) coughed up a three-run lead but threw six solid innings in a matchup with NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara as the Mets improved to 41-21 on opening day — the best record in baseball.

Garrett Cooper tied it 3-all in the sixth with a two-run homer off Scherzer. Jacob Stallings led off the inning with a single and scored on Luis Arraez’s double.

Before the opener, the Mets placed Justin Verlander on the injured list with a strained upper back muscle.

Orioles 10, Red Sox 9

Boston: The last time Adley Rutschman recalls feeling this level of emotion on a baseball field was playing in front of intimate, 5,000seat crowds at Oregon State.

He trumped that experience at Fenway Park in his first career opening day start.

Rutschman became the first catcher in major league history with five hits in an opener, and the Baltimore Orioles survived.

Rutschman — who debuted for the Orioles last May and quickly became indispensable to the young, resurgent club — homered in his first at-bat and finished 5-for-5 with a career-best four RBIS and a walk on a chilly day at Fenway Park, with a temperature of 38 degrees at first pitch.

Ramon Urias hit a two-run homer for Baltimore, which had 15 hits, nine walks and five stolen bases.