The 2018 season is barely two weeks old, but already some teams have significantly changed their postseason odds. These early- season wins and losses are in the bank. Get off to a good start and it makes life easier later on. Here are the five teams that have helped (and hurt) their postseason odds the most already this year.

Anyway, the second Wednesday of baseball's regular season brought another 15 games to the table. Here are the latest news, scores, and notes from around the league.

Wednesday's scores

Braves 5, Nationals 3 in 12 innings (box score)
Twins 9 Astros, 8 (box score)
Brewers 3, Cardinals 2 (box score)
White Sox 2, Rays 1 (box score)
Mariners 4, Royals 2 (box score)
Rockies 6, Padres 4 (box score)
Diamondbacks 7, Giants 3 (box score)
Indians 5, Tigers 1 (box score)
Phillies 4, Reds 3 in 12 innings (box score)
Orioles 5, Blue Jays 3 (box score)
Yankees 10, Red Sox 7 (box score)
Mets 4, Marlins 1 (box score)
Cubs 13, Pirates 5 (box score)
Angels 7, Rangers 2 (box score)
Athletics 16, Dodgers 6 (box score)

Mets win 10th game

The first team to 10 wins this season? That would be the New York Mets. The Mets, who had no hits entering the seventh, rallied to beat the Marlins on Wednesday night to improve their record to 10-1. They're off to the best start in franchise history.

The star of the show Wednesday was starter Zack Wheeler, who was called up from Triple-A to plug the rotation spot vacated by the injured Jason Vargas. Wheeler was outstanding across seven innings, allowing only two hits while striking out seven.

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The Mets swept their six-game road trip through Washington and Miami. It's the first time since way back in 1991 that they swept a road trip of at least six games, if you can believe that. 

The Angels, by the way, became the second team to 10 wins this season. They finished their game a few hours after the Mets.

Benches clear at Fenway Park

For the first time several years, the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry got hot Wednesday night. Benches cleared and punches were thrown after Yankees first baseman Tyler Austin charged the mound. Joe Kelly hit him with a pinch in apparent retaliation for a spikes high slide earlier in the game.

Here's video of the brawl:

Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge towered over everyone on the field. 

Both sides claimed innocence after the game -- Austin said his slide was clean, Kelly claimed he was only trying to pitch inside, etc. -- but ultimately, it doesn't matter. Suspensions are coming and these two teams still have 17 games to play this year. Chances are this won't be the last time tempers flare.

Zimmermann OK after liner

Scary moment in Cleveland on Wednesday. Tigers righty Jordan Zimmermann was struck in the head by a Jason Kipnis line drive in the first inning, and had to leave the game. Here's the video:

The good news is Zimmermann escaped without serious injury. He has a jaw contusion and may even be able to make his next start. Pretty amazing. A liner like that could lead to facial fractures and/or neurological damage. Zimmermann made it out with only a bruise.

Baez hits two homers, again

For the second straight day, Javier Baez clubbed two home runs Wednesday. Four homers in two days is pretty darn great, I say. Here is his second homer Wednesday:

Baez is the first Cubs player with back-to-back two-homer games since Alfonso Soriano back in 2008. He's the first player with back-to-back multi-homer games overall since Aaron Judge last September.

Price's scoreless streak ends

David Price, who has New York mayor Bill de Blasio on his side, took the mound against the Yankees on Wednesday night hoping to maintain the good vibes that have accompanied this season.

In his first two starts, Price did not allow a run. He's struck out 10 batters in 14 innings, all while allowing just seven hits and three walks. Price was looking to become the first Red Sox starter since the last round of expansion to begin the season with three consecutive scoreless outings.

Instead, the Yankees jumped on Price early, scoring four runs in the first inning Wednesday, long before the brawl. Giancarlo Stanton slammed a two-run triple -- it was a 418-foot triple into the Fenway Park center field triangle, per Statcast -- and Gary Sanchez followed with a two-run home run over the Green Monster. It was his fifth homer in 12 career at-bats against Price.

The four-run first inning stinks, but even great pitchers have bad innings from time to time. The bigger issue: Price only pitched one inning Wednesday. He was removed after throwing one inning and 35 pitches. The Red Sox say Price was taken out as a precaution with a "sensation in his left hand."

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Price's fastball averaged 91.9 mph in his one inning Wednesday, down from the 93.3 mph he averaged in his first two starts. That said, it was early in the game and it's cold at Fenway Park, so he may not have been fully warmed up yet.

Price was limited to 74 2/3 innings last year by elbow woes. After the game Price and the Red Sox said they expect him to make his next start.

Padres, Rockies brawl

The Yankees and Red Sox weren't the only teams to brawl Wednesday. The Padres and Rockies also got into a scuffle following a string of hit batsmen. Here's a look:

That's Nolan Arenado coming for Luis Perdomo. You can read the full story here, but it's fair to say this is a case of ballplayers behaving poorly. 

Goldschmidt snapping out of early-season slump

The first week and a half of the 2018 season did not go well for Paul Goldschmidt. Every player, even great ones, have a bad week or two (or three) during the course of the season. It's inevitable. In Goldschmidt's case, he happened to have that bad week at the start of the new year.

Fortunately for the D-Backs, it appears Goldschmidt is starting to snap out of it. He went into Tuesday night's game hitting .118 in 10 games, then he banged a game-tying ninth inning solo home run against the Giants. San Francisco went on to win that game, but the homer was probably the best swing Goldschmidt has taken all season.

Then, on Wednesday afternoon, Goldschmidt went deep again, this time hitting a towering two-run homer:

Goldschmidt doubled off the center field wall a few innings later as well, so that's three extra-base hits in the span of four plate appearances after having two extra-base hits in his first 10 games of the season. Arizona won nine of their first 12 games this season despite Goldschmidt's slump. Now that he appears to be getting locked in, the D-Backs could really take off.

Crawford hits first MLB home run

Shortstop J.P. Crawford is one of the young players the Phillies plan to build around going forward, and on Wednesday, Crawford hit his first career home run. It was not a cheapie. Crawford blasted his homer into the right field second deck at Citizens Bank Park. 

Check it out:

Good gravy that was a bomb. Statcast measured it at 105.2 mph off the bat with a projected distance of ... 387 feet? That can't be right. That's what the Statcast overlords say, however. I reject that number. Crawford hit a moonshot.

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