Yankees dominate home opener, taking down Marlins 8-2
- Davis Cornell
- 5 days ago
- 3 min read
The New York Yankees took down the Miami Marlins 8-2 in the Yankees' home opener. Will Warren got the start for the Yankees and faced 22-year old Eury Pérez.
"The crowd was electric from intros, the weather was great. Can't script it much better than that," Aaron Judge said.
With one out in the top half of the first inning, Warren surrendered a solo home run to Xavier Edwards, giving the Marlins a 1-0 lead, the first home run the Yankees have allowed this year.
"Solo homers aren't gonna beat us,” Warren said. “If we attack early, the odds are in our favor. We've got good defense behind us to make some plays."
Trent Grisham worked a walk to lead off the bottom half of the inning; Judge followed with a two-run shot, his third home run of the season, to give the Yankees a 2-1 advantage.
Warren worked a 1-2-3 top of the second inning with a pair of strikeouts, putting his punchout total up to four early on.
In the bottom half of the second, Jazz Chisholm Jr. worked a leadoff walk, then stole second and third. José Caballero worked a walk of his own, then swiped second base to put two runners in scoring position with one out. Then Ryan McMahon worked a walked loading the bases with one out.
Grisham went from behind in the count 0-2 to working a walk to allow Jazz to score, making it a 3-1 ballgame. Judge was then hit by a 99 mph heater in the arm to bring across another run, extending the Yankees' lead to 4-1.
Warren retired the Marlins in order in the top of the fourth, making it 11 straight retired since surrendering that home run in the first.
Owen Cassie launched a solo home run to cut the Yankees' lead in half, making it 4-2. Warren picked up the first two outs of the sixth before allowing back-to-back singles to end his day. Tim Hill replaced Warren and induced a grounout to end the frame.
Warren's final line: 5.2 innings pitched, four hits allowed, two earned runs, no walks, and six strikeouts on 77 pitches. Warren relied heavily on his fastball, throwing it 47% of the time, the sinker 29%, the sweeper 16%, the changeup 6%, and the curveball 3%. Warren topped out at 96.1 and averaged 93.6 mph on his fastball, with seven swings and misses.
The Yankees tacked on an insurance run in the bottom half of the sixth on a wild pitch, making it a 5-2 ballgame.
Jake Bird came in relief for the top of the seventh for his first outing in the Bronx as a Yankee and retired the Marlins in order with a couple of punchouts.
In the bottom half of the inning, Ben Rice launched a solo shot into the short porch in right, his second home run of the season, making it 6-2.
Brent Headrick took over for Bird in the eighth and worked a 1-2-3 inning with a pair of strikeouts.
Rice drove home two more in the bottom half of the frame via a two-run double 110.9 mph off the bat to extend the Yankees' lead to 8-2.
Ryan Yarbrough was called upon to pitch the top of the ninth and faced the minimum, thanks to a beautiful catch from Cody Bellinger in left and Yarbrough picking off former Yankee farmhand Agustín Ramírez to put the finishing touches on an 8-2 win.
The Yankees will look to win the series tomorrow with Ryan Weathers on the mound, facing off against Max Meyer. The first pitch is slated for 7:05 p.m. ET on the YES Network.
My thoughts on the game: Warren was really solid today, aside from a pair of mistakes, which were both crushed for homers. The bullpen was excelent Bird and Headrick, particularly, both looked nasty. Yarbrough did his job in the ninth. As for the offense, it's hard to complain when they score eight runs, but they definitely left some meat on the bone, going 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position and leaving nine on base. Rice continues to hit, going 2-for-5 with three RBIs and his second home run in as many games. Judge went 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a homer. Giancrolo Stanton, for the first time this season, did not record a hit. The offense really hasn't gotten going yet this year, but thanks to the pitching staff holding their opponents to just eight runs in the first seven games, the Yankees are 6-1. On to tomorrow as the Yankees will look to win the series.
"We're finding different ways to score runs, especially when our pitching staff has been doing what they're doing, it makes it easy on us as an offense," Judge said.
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