{"id":629114,"date":"2026-03-18T00:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/629114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:54:31","slug":"j-c-escarra-blasts-438-foot-home-run-in-yankees-win-over-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/629114\/","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Escarra blasts 438-foot home run in Yankees’ win over Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees<\/a> defeated the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Here are the key takeaways…<\/p>\n

— J.C. Escarra, likely to make the Opening Day roster as the backup catcher, blasted a 438-foot solo home run in the second inning to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

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Escarra went 3-for-4 at the plate and also threw a runner out trying to steal second base in the bottom of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n

— Will Warren continued his strong spring on the mound. The right-hander cruised through his first four scoreless innings, allowing just one hit. But he allowed a pair of singles to start the fifth, and with his pitch count in the mid-60s, his day ended there.<\/p>\n

Cade Winquest allowed one of those inherited runners to score, so Warren’s final line read 4.0+ innings, one earned run on three hits, four strikeouts, and one walk. His spring ERA is still very impressive at 1.77.<\/p>\n

–It was a quiet day overall for the Yankees offense, until the ninth. Ben Rice, serving as the DH, went 0-for-4 with three runners left on base in his first four at-bats, but in a rare fifth spring at-bat, he ripped a single to give the Yankees runners at first and third with nobody out in the ninth inning. Coby Morales, a non-roster player, would drive in a pair to put the Yankees up late.<\/p>\n

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— Jasson Dominguez went 0-for-3 with a walk. Ryan McMahon, starting at shortstop, went 1-for-4.<\/p>\n

–Oswaldo Cabrera, continuing his recovery from last season’s devastating ankle injury, went 0-for-2. He remains hitless this spring in eight at-bats.<\/p>\n

HighlightsWhat’s next<\/p>\n

The Yankees host the Boston Red Sox at 1:05 p.m. on Wednesday, with Gerrit Cole expected to make his spring debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 3-2 on Tuesday afternoon. Here are the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,731,48,38164,2281,1121,3289,4,1364,297,1494,5889,2550,68,2551,2549,772,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-629114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-cade-winquest","12":"tag-gerrit-cole","13":"tag-j-c-escarra","14":"tag-jasson-dominguez","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-oswaldo-cabrera","17":"tag-rays","18":"tag-ryan-mcmahon","19":"tag-second-inning","20":"tag-tampa-bay","21":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabayrays","24":"tag-will-warren","25":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116247453168147493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}