Didi Gregorius helped the New York Yankees secure an 11-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in their home opener on Tuesday with eight RBIs, including two three-run homers and a two-run single.

Didi Gregorius Homers Yankees vs. Rays

The 28-year-old shortstop’s runs set a one-game franchise record for his position and for the new Yankee Stadium, as well as a personal best. Gregorius helped give the Yankees their most prolific one-man offensive performance (with respect to RBIs) since Alex Rodriguez scored 10 homers against the Los Angeles Angels in April 2005.

SLIDESHOW: 30 Best Sports Instagrams!

“I think everybody wants to be the guy,” said Gregorius, who was also great on defense on Tuesday.

SLIDESHOW: 10 Highest-Paid Athletes

The Yankees were supposed to play their first game in the Bronx this season on Monday, but the contest was postponed due to snow. There was also a delay due to rain on Tuesday.

Giancarlo Stanton also set a career high with five strikeouts. First-year Yankees manager Aaron Boone pulled starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery after five innings and 80 pitches.

“We’ve seen a really good player continue to get better and better each year,” Boone said of Gregorius. “… He’s a guy you like seeing come up in big spots and with runners on base and he came through in a big way tonight.”

Gregorius said he knows how much fans expect from players, especially when they replace a legend like Derek Jeter, whom Gregorius stepped in to succeed after Jeter retired in 2015.

“Fans are always going to boo you, and the reason why they boo you is they want you to do good,” the Dutch-born Gregorius said. “It’s not because they hate you. That’s what I learned. The only way to get better is to keep putting in more work.”

The Yankees blew a 4-1 lead in the sixth inning but then recovered to secure the big win. The team hosts the Rays again on Wednesday at 1:05pm EST. Luis Severino (1-0) will start for New York against Blake Snell. 

After that, the Bombers begin a four-game home series against the Baltimore Orioles.

The Houston Astros revealed their 2017 World Series victory banner before their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, but they experienced minor difficulties with the display.

Astros 2017 World Series Banner Unveiling News

Team assistants had trouble removing the black curtain draped over the pennant, which caused several Astros players to laugh. The banner was eventually shown and fans at Minute Maid Park cheered and applauded. One assistant appeared to use some sort of leaf-blower to help unveil the banner.

SLIDESHOW: 30 Best Sports Instagrams!

Houston defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series to win the overall series 4-3 and claim their first-ever national title since the Astros joined the National League as an expansion team in 1962 along with the New York Mets.

SLIDESHOW: 10 Highest-Paid Athletes

The Astros beat the Orioles 6-1 on Monday, and have begun the 2018 season strong. Houston won three of its first four games, a road series against the Texas Rangers.

Former Astros first-base coach Rich Dauer threw out the ceremonial first pitch on Monday. It was a particularly emotional homecoming for Dauer, since he has recovered after nearly dying. Dauer suffered an acute subdural hematoma during the Astros’ victory parade. A subdural hematoma is a localized collection of blood outside the blood vessels and is usually associated with traumatic brain injury.

Houston and Baltimore face off again at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday at 8:10pm EST. Justin Verlander is set to start for the Astros, while fellow righty Mike Wright Jr. will take the mound for the Orioles.

The New York Yankees’ much-anticipated home opener against the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday has been postponed due to the snowfall in the city.

Yankees Home Opener Postponed News

Snow levels were predicted to reach up to around five inches on Monday. Thus, the game has been rescheduled to Tuesday at 4:05pm EST.

SLIDESHOW: 30 Best Sports Instagrams!

This is not the first time something like this has happened to the Bombers.

SLIDESHOW: 10 Highest-Paid Athletes

The Yanks’ home opener against Houston two years ago was postponed because of a forecast of bad weather and rescheduled for the following day. In 1982, the first game of the season for the Yankees was postponed after the Bronx got 12 inches. In 2003, opening day was pushed back when four inches fell the day before.

They’ve also played through flurries, like in April 1996 and again in April 2007.

Several other parts of the Northeast were hit by the snowstorm, the fifth this year after four “Nor’easters” in March. The Yankees game was scheduled for late Tuesday afternoon because rain is forecast for the morning.

No. 5 starter Jordan Montgomery remains the scheduled pitcher Tuesday for the Yankees. The Rays will shift to ace Chris Archer in place of Austin Pruitt, who won Thursday’s opener in relief.

Montgomery, a 25-year-old left-hander, is coming off a 9-7 rookie season. He said he feels more confident this spring.

“Last year was more of a roller-coaster ride,” Montgomery said. “I was feeling good and then I’d have a bad game and be down in the dumps. I feel like as a starting pitcher you’ve just got to be even-keeled with the good and the bad, no matter what, and just stick with your routine and keep your confidence.”

The Yankees’ advance ticket sales for the season are up 650,000 from last year.

Wil Myers smacked a line drive to the left-center gap at the beginning of the eighth inning and recorded a triple to complete Major League Baseball’s first cycle of 2017 and the first of his career in leading the San Diego Padres to a 5-3 road victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.

Wil Myers Hits First MLB Cycle of 2017, Padres Beat Rockies 5-3

“I was screaming three to myself,” Myers said. “Inside. I wasn’t screaming out loud.”

Myers singled in the first inning, doubled in the third and homered in the sixth to help the Padres earn their third win in four games. The only other Padres player in franchise history to finish a cycle is Matt Kemp, who did it on Aug. 14, 2015, also at Coors Field.

“Those moments don’t happen very often,” said 39-year-old Padres manager Andy Green. “To see somebody get it, someone like Wil, kind of the cornerstone of your franchise, it’s a lot of fun to watch.”

Hunter Renfroe also hit a two-run homer for San Diego. Righty Miguel Diaz (1-0), the second of six Padres pitchers, played one inning to record his first major league victory.

DJ LeMahieu and Mark Reynolds homered for Colorado (5-3).

Jarred Cosart started for the Padres (4-4) in place of Trevor Cahill, who was placed on the 10-day disabled list Sunday with a back injury. Cosart delivered four strong innings, allowed zero runs and induced three double plays to escape jams.

“Guys are going to get on base,” Cosart said. “If they don’t score any runs, it doesn’t matter how you do it.”

Cosart exited with a 1-0 lead following Myers’ RBI double in the third, although he didn’t get the win because he lasted less than five innings.

San Diego increased its lead in the fifth on Myers’ leadoff homer. Following a one-out walk, Renfroe took Tyler Chatwood deep just over the scoreboard in right field to make it 4-0.

Chatwood (0-2), who was 4-8 with a 6.12 ERA at Coors Field last year, allowed four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.

“That’s what happens in baseball,” Chatwood said. “You go along and you give up two homers out there and you lose the game for us.”

LeMahieu fired a solo homer in the sixth and Reynolds hit a two-run shot, his fourth, with two outs in the ninth.

Green said catcher Hector Sanchez, who is out with a concussion, is progressing well and could come off the disabled list as soon as he’s eligible. Sanchez has missed four games. Green added that Cahill, put on the DL retroactive to April 3, could make his next scheduled start.

Padres catcher Luis Torrens made his first start, but didn’t learn he was in the lineup until he arrived in Denver on Monday. Torrens was hitless in three at-bats before leaving in a double-switch.

The two teams face off again for the middle game of the three-games series at Coors Field on Tuesday night at 8:40 pm EST. Right-hander Jered Weaver (0-1, 7.20 ERA) will make his second start for the Padres, after allowing four runs in five innings in the season debut on Thursday.

Rookie righty Antonio Senzatela will take the mound for the Rockies in his second career start. Senzatela threw five shutout innings in his MLB debut at Milwaukee on Thursday. He recorded six strikeouts in Colorado’s 2-1 victory.

Meanwhile, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 in their home opener on Monday night following a nearly two-hour rain delay that also bogged down the 2016 World Series championship banner-raising ceremony at Wrigley Field. Anthony Rizzo hit a walk-off single for his first RBI of the season. Kris Bryant added an RBI double and Jon Lester had an RBI while pitching six dominant innings, over which he struck out seven batters.

Corey Seager contributed an RBI double for the Dodgers, who tied it in the eighth on a reviewed force out.

“I’ll remember this day for as long as I play baseball,” Rizzo said. “The walk-off caps it off, but that pregame ceremony, I really, honestly didn’t think it would be that [emotional].”

Despite the inclement weather, the crowd of 41,166 seemed content to be at Wrigley for the regular-season opener. The Cubs also raised banners for the team’s previous two national titles in 1907 and 1908. The flags flank the center-field scoreboard.

“It was a really special night for all of us,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

During the 1 hour, 56 minute wait before the game, the Wrigley Field video board showed catcher David Ross’ performance on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and also replayed the decisive Game 6 of the NLCS, which surely recalled bad memories for the Dodgers.

The Cubs (5-2, 1st in NL Central) and Dodgers (4-4) face off again for the second game of their three-game series in Chicago on Wednesday night at 8:05 p.m. EST following a day off on Tuesday. Righty Brandon McCarthy will make his second straight start for the Dodgers, while righty John Lackey will make his first start for the Cubs at Wrigley Field since earning the win in his first start, striking out seven or six innings against the Cardinals. The Cubs players will receive their championship rings before the game.