The 67th anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers was greeted with tributes, ceremonies, remembrances and hundreds of uniform No. 42s across baseball on Tuesday.

Omar Infante led the Royals’ mild charge, drilling a first-inning home run and later tallying an RBI fielder’s choice to back up Yordano Ventura’s solid seven innings as Kansas City took game one of the series, 4-2, against the Astros on Tuesday night in Minute Maid Park.

On the 67th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf recalled that the biggest question on April 15, 1947, was not the color of Robinson’s skin, but rather: Could he play?

Pirates manger Clint Hurdle successfully challenged a call that originally credited the Reds with a double play in the eighth inning of Tuesday night’s game.

Paul Maholm is one of the newest Dodgers, but he appreciates the franchise’s legacy, especially when it comes to Jackie Robinson.

Pitcher Josh Johnson, on the disabled list since March 21 with a right forearm strain, will meet with noted orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. “We’ll get him in to see Dr. Andrews next week, get another set of eyes, and see where we are,” said Padres general manager Josh Byrnes.

Matt Moore said Tuesday he was 100 percent sure about the decision to have season-ending Tommy John surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow on April 22.

A thousand hopeful job-seekers and entrepreneurs came to the Manhattan Center on Tuesday to meet some of the game’s biggest decision-makers and to see how baseball could fit into their future. And everywhere they went, Jackie Robinson’s memory was celebrated in ways both simple and profound.

Russell Martin provided the go-ahead run with two outs in the seventh — the first inning in the resumption of a game suspended by rain after six with the teams tied — giving the Pirates the two-day 8-7 win at Great American Ball Park on Tuesday.

Angels hitting coach Don Baylor is currently in physical therapy, and manager Mike Scioscia is hopeful that he can rejoin the team in a limited capacity when it returns from a three-city road trip for the April 28 series opener against the Indians.

If these first two weeks have reminded us of anything, it’s that the Atlanta Braves still do things right, that it would be almost impossible to find a franchise operated more smartly or efficiently.

Jose Reyes still appears on track to re-join the Blue Jays in time for their upcoming weekend series in Cleveland. Reyes played in an extended spring training game in Florida on Monday and was in the lineup for Class A Dunedin on Tuesday night.

Commissioner Bud Selig used the anniversary of Robinson’s integration of baseball to speak at the third annual MLB Diversity Summit, receiving standing ovations at the beginning and end of his remarks.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw threw a bullpen session Tuesday and showed his best velocity since being injured. Kershaw threw 26 pitches in the AT&T Park bullpen, with manager Don Mattingly and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt watching and trainer Stan Conte monitoring velocity with an app.

The business of baseball came alive in an uncommon manner Tuesday, when four of the game’s top executives took time to address the audience at the Diversity Business Summit.

When Francisco Cervelli strained his right hamstring running out a ground ball in the fourth inning Sunday night at Yankee Stadium, manager Joe Girardi looked down his very shortened bench and didn’t have many options at first base: That’s when Carlos Beltran again came through in the clutch.

Carlos Beltran homered as part of a three-hit performance, and Ivan Nova pitched solidly into the eighth inning as the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 3-2, in an eventful contest on Sunday night at Yankee Stadium.