Exactly 129 days after the Red Sox signed David Price to a seven-year, $217 million contract, the left-hander made his Fenway Park debut on Monday against the Orioles in front of a sold-out crowd for the team’s home opener.

The Phillies used and lost their first instant replay challenge of the season on a bizarre series of events in the sixth inning of Monday’s 4-3 loss to the Padres at Citizens Bank Park.

Noah Syndergaard faces Jose Fernandez on Tuesday night in Queens — and beyond the fact that they both throw extremely hard, there’s something else about what they do that makes it very, very difficult on hitters. Welcome to the world of “plate time.”

The Pirates roughed up Justin Verlander for seven runs on 10 hits over 4 1/3 innings, then withstood a Tigers rally in the later innings for a 7-4 win Monday afternoon at Comerica Park.

Shortly before his father’s death late last year, Mark Hamilton was able to tell his dad, Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton, that the Astros were going to dedicate the Minute Maid Park press box in his honor. Mark is confident his father heard the message and said the Milo Hamilton Press Box unveiled Monday is a fitting tribute.

Since Chris Davis signed a club-record seven-year, $161 million deal this past offseason, Orioles manager Buck Showalter has continually praised the way the first baseman has carried himself.

No Royals win in recent history was more unlikely than the Royals’ rally from a 6-2 deficit against the Astros in Game 4 of the AL Division Series last season. Before the clubs had their first meeting of 2016 on Monday night in Houston, the players talked about that historic October night.

Not all ground-ball RBI singles through the hole at shortstop are alike. They may all count the same on the stat sheet, but the sound was very different when Giancarlo Stanton swatted a ball into the outfield in Sunday’s 4-2 loss to the Nationals.

Vin Scully may be stepping out of the Dodgers’ broadcast booth this year, but his legacy will live on forever. The Dodgers and the City of Los Angeles on Monday dedicated Vin Scully Ave. in honor of the Hall of Fame broadcaster, who is in his 67th and final season as the voice of Dodgers baseball.

Sometimes things happen that remind us why we love this sport the way we do. Maybe that’s ultimately what Rockies shortstop Trevor Story and Astros first baseman Tyler White represent.

As Bruce Bochy enters his 10th season as the San Francisco Giants’ manager, he, like most people his age, wonders where the years went. “I guess the older you get, the faster time goes,” Bochy said recently. “As they say, when you’re 20, it goes by at 20 miles an hour. Now I’m 60; it’s going by at 60 miles an hour.”

Despite their star-level track records, the following five players struggled a great deal during Week 1 of the fantasy season. If you can get trade for them on a discount, act now before someone else does.

It has been three weeks since Michael Brantley played in a game for the Indians. The club is hoping it will not be much longer before the left fielder is back in the lineup again.

Like Santa Claus, but way cooler.

Flash back to a Minor League game at the Charlotte Sports Complex in late March. Chris Archer was making his final start of the spring before Opening Day. Watching the performance were fellow starters Jake Odorizzi and Matt Moore. Several years ago, each of the three arrived to the Rays, not yet filled out, but with the right stuff in their pitching arm.

With each passing year, the stature of Jackie Robinson looms larger in the history of baseball and the United States.

Here are the Top 5 GIFs from Sunday’s games, courtesy of @MLBGifs: