2023 MLB: Who plays today, Sunday, April 2? Times, schedule | How to watch on TV and online

We’ve got another 15 games planned for today, Sunday 2 April as the season flirts with taking some sort of shape, and the Detroit Tigers against the Tampa Bay Rays are first up at 1:10 p.m. Eastern Time. There is little doubt about the main event, however, at least for the general MLB viewer, as the San Francisco Giants and the New York Yankees clash. They’ll get underway at 1:35 p.m. ET.

Other notable games getting us excited include the afternoon encounter between the Cleveland Guardians and the Seattle Mariners, and then around three hours later, the Philadelphia Phillies taking on the Texas Rangers, which will bring the day’s baseball action to a close.

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Our MLB pick of the day: Giants @ Yankees

Even as he pitched well in spring training, Jhony Brito’s mentality was about pitching well with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and doing well enough to get a call from the New York Yankees. Due to injuries, the Yankees needed Brito much sooner; he will make his major league debut Sunday afternoon in the finale of a three-game series against the visiting San Francisco Giants.

The Yankees opened the series with a 5-0 win on Thursday but went 3-for-11 with runners in scoring position in a 7-5 loss on Saturday. Giancarlo Stanton homered, Josh Donaldson also went deep and Aaron Judge had three hits.

“It was very surprising because I was preparing myself to go to Triple-A,” Brito said through an interpreter Saturday. “Things worked out very quickly and like I said, surprising. They told me, ‘Hey you’re coming with us on the road trip,’ and my mentality was to go to Triple-A and take care of business in Triple-A and hopefully expect a call from the team at some point. Obviously, this developed much quicker, and here I am.”

The Giants struck out 16 times and managed just four hits in the season opener, but were much better Saturday, such as Brandon Crawford and Joc Pederson hitting homers in the fourth inning. Crawford went 3-for-5 and drove in three runs, while Pederson collected an RBI as the Giants had 12 hits to offset 13 strikeouts.

“We’re going to hit for power this year,” San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler said. “One of the things we’ve talked about is it (is) probably not going to come from just one individual. It’s going to be spread out, and you’re going to see extra-base hits and home runs.”

Ross Stripling makes his San Francisco debut after spending the past two-plus seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays. Stripling went 10-4 with a 3.01 ERA in 32 appearances (24 starts) with Toronto last season and signed a two-year, $25 million deal that includes an opt-out with San Francisco. Stripling is 0-5 with a 4.55 ERA in seven career appearances (four starts) against the Yankees. Last year, he was 0-1 with a 4.70 ERA in two starts against New York.