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Lucas Duda

Bubbles pop, as home runs fly and blown saves continue. 

Opening day has been a little crazy so far, well, with 4 different opening days around the league things seemed to be a bit hectic. The first couple of “opening days” saw the 2011 “The Year of the Pitcher” overflow into 2012. However it wasn’t until yesterday when the hitters decided to join the party. 

Five players went on to have a mutli-homer game yesterday, none more surprising than Lucas Duda who notched two home runs, 20% of his total in 2011. 

Yoenis Cespedes (OAK) hit his third homer in as many games yesterday giving him the league lead in homers through 4 games. 

The aforementioned Cespedes also leads the league in RBIs (7) as well as strikeouts (7). 

49 Year old Jamie Moyer becomes the oldest pitcher to appear in a game since Minnie Minoso played for the White Sox back in 1980 at the age of 54. Moyer failed to record a win, but did go 5 innings giving up only 3 runs on 5 hits, striking out 2. 

Felix Hernandez has plunked three batters in two games, and Roy Halladay has hit two in just one game.

The year of the blown save continues as Sergio Santos (TOR) and Carlos Marmol (CHC) blew saves yesterday bringing the total of blown saves to 7 on the year. 

Blue Jays record their second win in as many games, needing extra frames in both. In 10 extra innings, the Jays have scored 7 runs, the same amount of runs they have scored in the other 18 innings they’ve played. 

Seven starting pitchers including Jeff Karstens (PIT), Brandon Morrow (TOR), Cliff Lee (PHI) and Matt Garza (CHC) all record quality starts but fail to pick up the win, recording no decisions as bull pens and the lack of hitting force the games to go in different directions. 

Pitching duels we’re looking forward to watching on Easter Sunday: Mike Minor (ATL) vs. Jon Niese (NYM), Phil Hughes (NYY) vs. Jeremy Hellickson (TB), Matt Cain (SF) vs. Josh Collmenter (ARZ).

On this day in baseball history in 1974, Hank Aaron passed Babe Ruth with his 715th homer un.   

Written by Justin Mandaro exclusively for TheFantasyFix.com

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