LOOKING AHEAD

A look at what’s happening around the majors on Saturday:

BUFFALO BLUE JAYS: The Toronto Blue Jays finally found out where they’ll play home games this season, settling for a Triple-A stadium in Buffalo, New York, after being denied use of big-league stadiums in Canada and Pittsburgh.

The club’s first home games were originally schedule on July 29-30 against the Nationals, but those have been moved to Washington to accommodate infrastructure modifications at Sahlen Field to help it meet major league standards and COVID-19 safety requirements. If the field isn’t ready by July 31, the team’s first “home” games in Buffalo would be on Aug. 11 against Miami.

AGGIE FOR CLEVELAND: The Indians added New Mexico State University alum Daniel Johnson to their opening-day roster Friday, recalling the 25-year-old outfielder from the club’s satellite camp in Lake County, Ohio. Johnson became the fifth former Aggie to make earn an MLB roster spot and the first since Fernando Ramsey in 1992.

Johnson, a Vallejo, California, native, was named Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 2016 after leading the league in batting average, hits, home runs, stolen bases and runs. He was a fifthround pick of the Washington Nationals and was traded to the Indians in 2018.

EYES ON BASEBALL: The pandemic-delayed MLB opener was a hit on television. The Nationals-Yankees game on ESPN was the mostwatched regular season game in baseball on any network in nine years. It averaged 4 million viewers according to Nielsen fast national ratings and peaked with 4.48 million viewers. No regular season game had been viewed by that many since 4.7 million watched Boston beat the Yankees 3-2 in 10 innings on Aug. 7, 2011.