There were no fans in the stands or players on the fields Thursday. In fact, stadiums across America remained empty with no traces of the significance this day was supposed to bring before COVID-19 came along.
But there was an alternate universe where Major League Baseball’s Opening Day tradition went on without a hitch on Thursday. Thanks to Strat-O-Matic’s simulated computer games, baseball-starved fans in the Bay Area — and throughout the country — saw how things might have gone had the games actually gone on as scheduled.
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The new Gabe Kapler era brought more of the same old story for the Giants, according to Strat-O-Matic, which had the Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw handing San Francisco and starter Johnny Cueto a 10-3 loss at Dodger Stadium.