Back on the mound for the first time since his World Series MVP performance, Madison Bumgarner faced 10 batters and was tagged for four runs and five hits, including a two-run homer to Marcus Semien, with two strikeouts.

Jung Ho Kang wasted no time demonstrating the power stroke that led the Pirates to bring him in, connecting on a solo home run in the third inning of their game against the Blue Jays.

First baseman Jose Abreu is still mourning the loss of White Sox legend Minnie Minoso, whom Abreu considered a mentor.

Jose Iglesias will be back in the Tigers’ starting lineup Wednesday against the Orioles after he had Tuesday’s Grapefruit League opener off. He has played one inning in the first couple games of Detroit’s schedule, but he’s about to get a slow uptick in play.

Billy Bean could have been any coach or instructor on Tuesday morning, throwing long toss with Matt den Dekker or pitching batting practice to John Mayberry Jr. But he was not. Bean was serving as Major League Baseball’s ambassador of inclusion, spending the morning as an instructor after meeting with the entire organization prior to the workout.

He was only facing his teammates, but Jeff Samardzija approached his intrasquad outing on Tuesday the same as any other trip to the mound.

It’s not just players and umpires who have to adjust to baseball’s new pace of play initiatives, including a clock that counts down from 2:25 — 2:45 for nationally-televised games — and dictates that the upcoming batter be announced when the timer hits 40 seconds.

Noah Syndergaard learned a rookie lesson the hard way during the Mets’ intrasquad game Tuesday at Tradition Field.

Early hysteria over 18-year-old lefty Julio Urias reminds Clayton Kershaw of early hysteria over a 20-year-old Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw said he has already talked to Urias about dealing with it all.

Rick Porcello, acquired in an offseason trade from the Tigers, made his debut for the Red Sox and retired all six batters that he faced in a 2-1 win over Northeastern University. The 26-year-old righty struck out two and threw all four of his pitches — four-seam fastball, two-seam fastball, curveball and changeup — in his relief outing.

The new pace-of-play rules, which will be in effect at all Cactus League and Grapefruit League games this spring, did not seem to have much of an impact on Tuesday’s play.

Seven years after Miguel Cabrera marked his Tigers debut in Spring Training with a home run, Yoenis Cespedes’ first hit in a Detroit uniform also had a similar impact. He drove a grand slam down the left-field line in the fourth inning of the Tigers’ Grapefruit League opener against the Orioles on Tuesday at Joker Marchant Stadium.

Pete Frates, a lifelong Red Sox fan and former captain of the Boston College baseball team, couldn’t be there Tuesday to see his two favorite squads meet up at JetBlue Park. Yet if you looked around during the seven-inning contest between the Red Sox and BC, Frates was everywhere.

Funeral services for White Sox legend Minnie Minoso, who died on Sunday, will be held in Chicago this weekend.

The Spring Training schedule gets underway today with five matchups across the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues, and MLB.com has several ways for you to follow the action.

Major League Baseball games are back. Madison Bumgarner, who threw the last pitch of the 2014 season 125 days ago for the Giants in Game 7 of an unforgettable World Series against Kansas City, is scheduled to start for the defending champs against Oakland at 3:05 p.m. ET on Tuesday in one of the first five scheduled Spring Training openers between Major League clubs.

The public unveiling of Jung Ho Kang was a popular hit. It was the only hit for Kang on Monday, as he played the first three innings of his Black team’s 2-1 victory over the Gold team in an annual intrasquad game, but he nonetheless considered it a success.