After a dramatic offseason that reached its peak with a flurry of inaccurate media reports and online flight tracking, Shohei Ohtani was greeted by a loud round of boos by the home crowd at Rogers Centre.
But Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider emerged from the dugout and asked the umpires to delay the rain delay at Kauffman Stadium. And so, the grounds crew pushed the tarp back into its place down the right-field line.