Baseball Today

Los Angeles at Arizona (8:35 p.m. EST). The Dodgers' Kevin Brown makes his first regular-season start since having back surgery last June.

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Jason Giambi, Yankees, hit two solo homers in the New York Yankees' 10-1 victory over Toronto.

Jeff Bagwell, Astros, hit a two-run homer in the third and a solo shot in the fourth as Houston defeated Colorado 10-4.

Garret Anderson, Angels, went 4-for-4 with two RBIs and three runs scored in Anaheim's 10-0 win over Texas.

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Kevin Millar homered in the top of the 16th inning Tuesday night to lead Boston past Tampa Bay 9-8. It was the longest game in Devil Rays history, and Tampa Bay left a club-record 21 runners on base.

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Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, the first two pitchers in the Yankees' rotation, started the season with a combined 13 scoreless innings. Clemens pitched six scoreless innings on Monday and Pettitte followed with seven Tuesday in a 10-1 win over Toronto. ... Oakland's Tim Hudson pitched eight scoreless innings, allowing five hits and striking out four in Oakland's 5-0 win over Seattle. It was the first opening-day shutout for the Athletics since Ned Garver pitched a seven-hitter for the Kansas City A's to beat the Cleveland Indians in 1958.

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Houston's Jeff Kent, who signed a two-year, $18.2-million dollar contract in the offseason, made a Texas-sized impression in his first at bat of Tuesday's season-opener against Colorado, hitting a solo home run off Jason Jennings in the second inning. Kent went 3-for-5 and scored two runs.

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Mike Piazza's suspension for charging the mound during spring training was reduced from five games to four Tuesday. Piazza's suspension resulted from an altercation with Los Angeles' Guillermo Mota, whose suspension was also reduced from five games to four last week.

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Barry Bonds' three-run blast Tuesday was his 71st career homer against the Padres, his most against any team. His 38 homers in San Diego is also his most in any road ballpark. Of his 120 homers since the start of the 2001 season, 19 have come against San Diego, including 11 in 2001 when he set the single-season mark of 73. Bonds and the Giants beat the Padres 8-1 on Tuesday.

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``I don't enjoy watching. It looked like fun out there. Everyone was swinging the bat well.'' New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, after watching the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 10-1 on Tuesday. Jeter was put on the 15-day disabled list after dislocating his left shoulder in the season opener Monday.

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1931 Virne Mitchell pitched against the New York Yankees in an exhibition game in Chattanooga. Babe Ruth waved wildly at the first two pitches and took a third strike. Lou Gehrig timed his swing to miss three straight pitches. Tony Lazzeri, after trying to bunt, walked and Mitchell left the game.

1952 Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin of the New York Giants broke an ankle in an exhibition game. Irvin played just 46 games in the season.

1984 The New York Mets lost to the Cincinnati Reds 8-1 for their first opening-day defeat in 10 years.

1996 St. Francis of Illinois pummeled Robert Morris 71-1 in a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference game that was surrendered after four innings by Robert Morris coach Gerald McNamara.

1997 For the first time, the salary of one player Albert Belle was higher than the payroll of an entire team. Belle, the game's highest-paid player for 1997 at $10 million, made $928,333 more than the Pittsburgh Pirates payroll, which totaled $9,071,667.

2001 Roger Clemens became the AL strikeout king, getting five to pass Walter Johnson as the Yankees beat Kansas City 7-3 in their season opener. Clemens fanned Joe Randa for his 3,509th career strikeout.

Today's birthdays: Don Sutton 53; Curt Leskanic 35; Denny Hocking 33; Jon Lieber 33.

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