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With high hopes for their 2019 campaign, the Yankees easily&nbsp;beat&nbsp;the lowly Baltimore Orioles&nbsp;7-2&nbsp;on Opening Day at Yankee Stadium Thursday.

Luke Voit put the Yankees ahead in the first inning with a 428-foot,&nbsp;three-run homer, which would've been enough to win the game on its own. Voit finished with&nbsp;four&nbsp;RBI thanks to a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch in the fifth.

Greg Bird also smacked his first homer of the season in the eighth.&nbsp;

Starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka grabbed the W thanks to 5.2 innings of&nbsp;one-run ball. He tacked on five strikeouts and no walks.&nbsp;

Reliever Adam Ottavino made his Yankee debut, as did the No. 0, a number that has never been worn&nbsp;in franchise history. He threw a perfect 1.1 innings with three strikeouts. Aroldis Chapman closed the door on the game in a non-save situation.

Coming off a 100+-loss season, Baltimore is projected to struggle once again. An easy win was exactly what Yankee fans expected and hoped for to open up their run at a 28th World Series ring.

The Yankees play next on Saturday in the middle game of a&nbsp;three-game set vs. Baltimore. Pitcher James Paxton is set to make his debut in a Yankee uniform.

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Luke Voit hit a first-inning homer, Masahiro Tanaka finally got an opening day victory in his fourth try and the New York Yankees started the season with a 7-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday.

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For local matters. I'm Phil Tit. Now we are on storm watch. I'm here with Storm March team, meteorologist, hope oil. I mean, I hope this rain has really been giving everyone a run for their money. But the temperatures also, we're going to see a dip dip there. Yeah, a 20 degree drop in temperatures. So it's just something that we all really need to prepare for. So we are starting our evening with temperatures in the upper fifties, low sixties. This is what it's gonna look like around 11 pm, mild gusty storms and then by five o'clock tomorrow morning, 43 degrees, even though that the rain is coming to an end during the second half of your morning commute. A chilly gusty wind. It is going to make it feel even colder out there throughout the day on our Monday. Now, we have that flash flood risk, a slight risk. So scattered flash flooding is possible over parts of our area, we've already seen at least a quarter to half an inch of rain reported over parts of our area. But again, the brunt of the storm will start pushing into our area around dinner time. 8:09 p.m. It's gonna be a mess to be outside. So if you can avoid hitting on the roads, that is gonna be a good idea. So this is around 8 p.m. It's still mild temperatures, upper fifties, low sixties and we're seeing some steady and even even heavy rainfall even through the overnight and taking us into your Monday morning. 5:06 a.m. The steadiest rain is still going to be with us. Lighter showers closer to 7:08 a.m. But look at those temperatures, upper thirties, low for that cold gusty wind. It is going to allow feel like temperatures to be in the mid to upper 30. So that's something that we need to prepare for. Now, even from Monday night after the storm moves out of here, the the skies will clear and temperatures will be falling to the mid thirties, but we'll be waking up to feel like temperatures in the twenties. So that is something that we need to prepare for for Tuesday morning and look at those temperatures in the low to mid 40 through the majority of the week. And then we start to rebound just in time for the week.

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Storm brings heavy downpours & high, gusty winds through tomorrow morning. Stay with News 12 for updates.

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