Opening Day takeaways: Can we believe what we just saw?

Welcome back, baseball. We missed you.

Opening Day in 2019 featured 15 games, sunny weather (except in Kansas City), good pitching and plenty of home runs and strikeouts. In other words, baseball in 2019 is going to look a lot like baseball in 2018. There were five shutouts, but despite one third of the games including a zero, players homered once every 19.9 at-bats -- higher than last year's rate of once every 29.6 at-bats.

Let's take a quick snapshot of each game and ask one big question to take away from it:

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