That’s 1 game down, 161 to go for the New York Mets.
After a very long and eventful offseason, Mets baseball is back and like they so often do, the Mets won their first game of the season, edging out Max Scherzer and the rival Washington Nationals in route to a 2-0 victory.
This victory was their 38th win on Opening Day in the last 50 Opening Day games, which is the best record across all MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL teams in that same 50-year span.
With that said, as Mets fans unfortunately know, how the team performs in the first game of the year is not necessarily indicative of how the team will perform for the entirety of the season, as while they have the best opening season record in the past 50 years, the team has only made the playoffs 9 times over that same stretch.