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Baseball is finally back. The New York Yankees start right where they left off with the Houston Astros. The Astros won the 2015 Wild Card game 3-0 in Yankee Stadium. Dallas Keuchel and Masahiro Tanaka dueled in the game, they will again on Opening Day.
| Tuesday, April 6 - 12:05 CT | W | L | ERA | FIP | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 | BABIP | fWAR |
| LHP Dallas Keuchel | 20 | 8 | 2.48 | 2.91 | 232 | 8.38 | 1.98 | 0.66 | 0.269 | 6.1 |
| RHP Masahiro Tanaka | 12 | 7 | 3.51 | 3.98 | 154 | 8.12 | 1.58 | 1.46 | 0.242 | 2.2 |
The biggest surprise with the Astros lineup for Opening Day is the selection of Marwin Gonzalez over Tyler White. White beat out Jon Singleton for the first base position batted .353 (18x51) with three home runs and 12 RBIs this spring. But Gonzalez is a more veteran option on a very high energy day on Opening Day.
| Astros lineup | PA | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | OBP | SLG | wRC+ | fWAR |
| 2B, Jose Altuve | 689 | 15 | 66 | 38 | 0.313 | 0.353 | 0.459 | 120 | 4.3 |
| RF, George Springer | 451 | 16 | 41 | 16 | 0.276 | 0.367 | 0.459 | 129 | 3.7 |
| SS, Carlos Correa | 432 | 22 | 68 | 14 | 0.296 | 0.345 | 0.512 | 133 | 3.3 |
| LF, Colby Rasmus | 485 | 25 | 61 | 2 | 0.238 | 0.314 | 0.475 | 115 | 2.8 |
| CF, Carlos Gomez | 477 | 12 | 56 | 17 | 0.255 | 0.314 | 0.409 | 96 | 2.6 |
| 3B, Luis Valbuena | 493 | 25 | 56 | 1 | 0.224 | 0.31 | 0.438 | 105 | 1.2 |
| DH, Preston Tucker | 323 | 13 | 33 | 0 | 0.243 | 0.297 | 0.437 | 100 | 0.3 |
| 1B, Marwin Gonzalez | 370 | 12 | 34 | 4 | 0.279 | 0.317 | 0.442 | 108 | 1.5 |
| C, Jason Castro | 375 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 0.211 | 0.283 | 0.365 | 76 | 1.3 |