MLB roundup: Yankees-Giants open season with interleague matchup on Netflix

Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees will be the invited guests Wednesday night when the San Francisco Giants open the Tony Vitello managerial era in a nationally televised interleague 2026 curtain-raiser on Netflix. The only game on the Opening Day baseball schedule will feature an All-Star pitching matchup of Yankees left-hander Max Fried against Giants righty Logan Webb. The clubs will be meeting on Opening Day for the second time in four seasons.

The last time it happened – March 2023 – Judge belted a first-inning home run off Webb at Yankee Stadium, sending the hosts on the way to a 5-0 victory. Judge has recorded at least one hit in all nine of his Opening Day appearances. Of his 14 hits in those games, six were doubles, but the blast against Webb was his lone homer.

The Northern California native has homered twice in nine career plate appearances against Webb, his teammate on Team USA in the recent World Baseball Classic. He also has struck out three times, including both times following the homer in the 2023 opener. The Opening Day call will be the fifth straight for Webb.

The Giants have won two of those games, including 6-4 last season at Cincinnati, but the right- hander whose hometown of Rocklin, Calif. , is just 70 miles north of where Judge grew up in Linden has never recorded a win in an opener. Webb is 1-2 with a 5.