{"id":566287,"date":"2026-03-26T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566287\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:12:08","slug":"mlb-opening-day-2026-scores-news-and-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566287\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Opening Day 2026 scores, news and highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets begin their 2026 MLB season against the Pirates at 1:15 p.m. ET from Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes will be on the mound for the Pirates against Freddy Peralta, who will be making his first regular-season Mets start.<\/p>\n<p>The game will air on NBC and Peacock, instead of SNY, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/26\/sports\/heres-how-to-watch-pirates-vs-mets-opening-day-live-for-free\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Post has you covered<\/a> for MLB Opening Day, too.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Amazin\u2019s be too much for the Pirates to handle? Or will Skenes shut things down at Citi Field? Follow The Post\u2019s live updates for the latest Mets scores, news and highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets begin their 2026 MLB season against the Pirates at 1:15 p.m. ET from Citi Field. NL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,10220,10954,591,1830,5147,5160,85],"class_list":["post-566287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-live-blogs","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}