Yes. But it's got nothing to do with winning the first game. It has to do with the fact that you won a game. The same is true of winning the second game, or the third, or the fourth. In each case, you have fewer games left to win before winning the series. There is no extra benefit beyond that. So the emphasis that commentators place on winning the first game, as opposed to any of the other games, is based on a misunderstanding of probabilities.
That is a pretty old article, but others have been done since and the same results persist.
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