The Yankees swept the Giants the last time they were in San Francisco, and my thinking is they're going to do it again, or at least have a great start with their starter, Max Fried, on the mound. Logan Web is starting for the Giants, and the last time he faced the Yankees on Opening Day was 2023, when Aaron Judge hit a home run off of him in a 5-0 Yankees win. This is basically a bet on Fried, who was 19-5 last season and is 4-1 in 9 appearances against the Giants. The weather is expected to be 63° with winds blowing out to center at 13 mph. Yankees to win.

You didn't really think the Yankees would play on Opening Night and I'd pass on taking them to win this game right?? I make them close to a -120 favorite, whereas I need +115 or better on the Giants side to make that bet, so I'm going with my fandom here! Max Fried and Logan Webb both had shaky outings to end the spring, but at least Fried battled through five innings despite issuing four walks. Logan Webb was pulled at 4.1 innings after allowing eight hits and six runs. Spring stats are meaningless so we'll see how they pitch tonight, but the Yankees have a much stronger bullpen to back Fried up, and an offense that ranks better than the Giants as well. 0.5u

Giants ace Logan Webb looked great in the WBC and for the most part this spring, and he keeps the ball in the park so the Yanks' Aaron Judge likely doesn't jack one while Webb is in there Wednesday in the season opener from the Left Coast (Netflix has baseball now?). We love home teams in season openers. Max Fried is excellent as well for the Yanks, so we may be looking at scoreless through five. Probably play a half unit on NRFI. With pitchers usually ahead of hitters this early, why wouldn't we take +1.5 when it figures to be low scoring in a pitchers' park?