 It was the best home opening series since 2004 when they also began the season at home by winning 4 out of 6 games.This season's series was notable because three of their wins came on their final at-bat, and the last three games each extended into extra innings.Although the team was successful during the first half of April–occupying first place on eight of those days while winning 10 of 14 games–the latter half of the month saw the team lose nine games as they fell 4½ games behind the division-leading Cleveland Indians.