ML Secretariat, Lee Jung-hoo, Aaron Judge, and others were the faces of the official opening game in 2026SF Yankees clash at Oracle Park
Aug 27, 2025
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Lee Jung-hoo watched the first of three consecutive home games against the Chicago Cubs on the bench at Oracle Park on the 27th (Korea time).
It is the sixth time this season that Lee Jung-hoo missed the entire game, and it is the first time in 34 days since the away game against the Atlanta Braves on the 24th of last month. Lee Jung-hoo took two days off because the team had a day off the previous day.
In particular, the bench believes that Lee Jung-hoo continued his upward batting sense with a 0.310 batting average (26 hits in 84 at-bats) and an OPS of 0.825, in 22 games in August, and needed a break to control his condition. Lee Jung-hoo is scheduled to start normally in the second game of the three consecutive games against the Cubs, which starts at 10:45 a.m. on the 28th. Cubs starter Colin Leira Lee Jung-hoo is likely to take the leadoff.
On this day, San Francisco replaced Lee Jung-hoo with Drew Gilbert in center field, and left fielder Elliott Ramos took charge of the leadoff. Ramos led the team to a 5-2 victory in the lead with three hits, one walk, one RBI and one run in three at-bats.
Starting pitcher Justin Verlander won his second win (10 losses) of the season by blocking six innings with seven hits, two walks, five strikeouts and two runs. Verlander has tasted the joy of winning in six games since the game against Atlanta on July 24 (five innings of one hit and no run). The ERA was lowered from 4.64 to 4.55.
San Francisco, which has won three consecutive games, jumped to third place in the NL West with 64 wins and 68 losses. The Arizona Diamondbacks (64-69) fell to fourth place after losing 8-9 to the Milwaukee Brewers.
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According to this, San Francisco will be the main character of the official opening game. On March 26 next year, the New York Yankees will be invited to Oracle Park to play their first major league game in 2026. The other 28 teams will open in unison the next day, March 27.
MLB announced the opening schedule with San Francisco Lee Jung-hoo, Logan Webb, Rafael Devers, Yankees Aaron Judge, Max Fried, and Jazz Chisome Jr. on its official X account when it announced the '2026 Major League schedule'.
San Francisco will take the 27th off and continue the 2nd and 3rd games of the opening series with the Yankees from the 28th to the 29th. After taking another day off on the 30th, he will play three consecutive away games against the San Diego Padres from March 31 to April 2, and will play seven consecutive home games against the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies.
They will meet for the first time on April 22nd and 24th with the Los Angeles Dodgers, an eternal rival, for three consecutive home games. And in the final series of the regular season, the opponent is the Dodgers, who will also play three consecutive home games at Oracle Park from September 26 to 28.
Next year's 96th All-Star Game will be held in Philadelphia, where the U.S. Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1876 to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence. July 15 at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia's home stadium.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
