Chalking it all up as a learning experience — where first-game jitters and a disastrous start led to their demise — the Medford Rogues walked away with one common outlook after suffering an 8-1 loss to the Seattle Studs in Thursday’s season opener.

In a nutshell, tomorrow is another day.

Seattle scored twice in the top of the first inning and led 5-0 through the second to seize early control of the collegiate wood-bat contest and put the Rogues on their heels at Harry & David Field.

Medford’s lone defensive error came in that span, and the Studs (1-0) collected seven of their 14 hits in the opening two frames.

“I think there were some nerves,” said Rogues catcher Troy Osborne. “If I’m being honest, personally I felt it, too. You have a cool crowd here and it’s your first game and it is what it is. We’ve just got to move on to tomorrow, it’s a long season. There’s a lot of tomorrows left for us.”

Game 2 of the three-game series will be at 6:35 p.m. Friday night, and includes the first of four postgame fireworks displays this season.

Fireworks on the field Thursday, however, did not come for Medford (0-1) until its final at-bat when the Rogues avoided a shutout.

A leadoff double down the right-field line by North Medford High’s Frankie Rutigliano set the stage — although that wasn’t exactly Medford’s problem against Seattle — and he eventually was brought home on a one-out groundout by Kyle Cox.

Prior to that, the Rogues had stranded 12 baserunners — leaving the bases loaded twice in the first three innings and three times overall — and joined the Studs with 14 left on base overall. The main difference was Seattle’s ability to at least score a run or two before eventually being cut off.

“We left the bases loaded three times and there were about five innings where we left guys in scoring position,” said Rogues interim manager Scott Spiezio of the offensive letdown. “When we get guys feeling more comfortable, they’re going to drive in those runs and they’ll be a fun team to watch.”

An announced crowd of 1,064 showed up to watch Medford open its 12th summer season, and Spiezio said the slow start was the difference-maker between winning and losing Thursday.

“If you take away the first two innings with a little nerves, they played a really solid game,” Spiezio said of the Rogues. “A lot of them hadn’t seen live pitching in a while — and probably hadn’t used wood bats in a while — so they’re making adjustments, that’s what these three games are for.”

“Our pitchers did a great job, but we’re going to need some more arms,” he added with a laugh after utilizing five pitchers in the opener. “We need some more guys to come here, but overall I was very pleased with the way they played and I think this team is going to be really good.”

Osborne went 2-for-4 to pace Medford at the plate, with local players Rutigliano and Aiden Horsley also registering a hit on a night when the Rogues managed six hits overall but were aided by three hit batters, three errors and three walks by Seattle’s staff.

“Having the bases loaded three times and not executing during that, it’s hard to win games when you can’t execute in those moments,” said Osborne. “Especially when there’s one out and the bases loaded, we’ve at least got to get one from that.”

“I think, honestly, it’s just about the little things with pitching and hitting for us,” he added of how the team will build from Thursday’s experience. “I think we have the talent. We have guys that throw hard enough and we have guys that can hit the ball and scrappy guys, I think it’s just going to be about the little things, honestly. We’ve just got to be a little more scrappy.”

On the mound, Brandon Gomez gave the Rogues a lift with a pair of scoreless innings in relief of starter Justin Evasovic. Gomez was the recipient of one of the better defensive efforts of the night when second baseman Josh Graham and shortstop Luke Smith combined for an inning-ending double play in the fourth inning.

Medford’s top pitcher of the night proved to be Quinn Stewart, who came on with two outs in the seventh and gave up a walk but then followed by striking out four of his next five batters faced. As a team, Rogues pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts.

Brice Foster pitched five scoreless innings with only three hits allowed to earn the victory for Seattle, which also saw shortstop Brody Phinney shine with tremendous defensive play, Phinney was sure-handed and displayed a quick release to secure five assists.

At the plate for the Studs, Ben Schnurman went 4-for-6 with three RBIs, Makana Murashige was 2-for-4 with one run and two RBIs and Zion Williams went 2-for-4 with two runs and one RBI.

After its fast start, Seattle was limited to only four hits from inning Nos. 3-8 before recording three hits in the ninth inning.

For Spiezio, the biggest takeaway of the night was to use the summer season as a training ground, learning equally from whatever positive or negative moments may arise for the up-and-coming baseball players.

“That’s what this is for, for these guys to become better players and mature more and become better people, too,” said the former MLB standout and two-time World Series champion. “I remember playing back in the Cape Cod League for two seasons and, boy, it was an eye-opening experience when I first got there. We’re playing Nomar Garciaparra and some guys like that and I took my lumps the first couple weeks and then I started figuring stuff out. It’s a different ballgame. These guys’ eyes are wide-open right now but they’re going to settle down and do just fine.”