{"id":643790,"date":"2026-03-26T02:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643790\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:35:15","slug":"yankees-start-season-with-second-inning-explosion-against-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643790\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees start season with second-inning explosion against Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Yankees weren\u2019t the Bronx Bombers early on in their <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/sports\/yankees-vs-giants-live-updates-mlb-opening-day-2026-score-news-and-highlights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">season-opener against the Giants<\/a>, but it didn\u2019t stop them from putting together a second-inning rally.<\/p>\n<p>They scored five runs in the top of the second at Oracle Park \u2014 all with Giants ace Logan Webb on the mound.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rice grounded out to start the inning before Giancarlo Stanton singled to right-center for the Yankees\u2019 first hit of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Caballero, right, hits an RBI double in front of San Francisco Giants catcher Patrick Bailey, left, during the second inning of the Yankees-Giants opening night game on March 25, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p>Trent Grisham watches his two-run triple during the Yankees\u2019 five-run second inning against the Giants. AP<\/p>\n<p>Webb then hit Jazz Chisholm Jr. with a pitch and Jos\u00e9 Caballero opened the scoring with a double to left.<\/p>\n<p>And the bottom of the lineup continued to produce, with Ryan McMahon following with a two-run single up the middle to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Giants ace Logan Webb reacts after  giving up a two-run single during the Yankees\u2019 five-run second inning. AP<\/p>\n<p>An Austin Wells single kept the rally going and Trent Grisham\u2019s triple to right-center gave the Yankees a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The outburst ended with back-to-back strikeouts by Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Yankees weren\u2019t the Bronx Bombers early on in their season-opener against the Giants, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,18513,1690,62,2548,2547,1494,66,185,122,142],"class_list":["post-643790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-opening-day","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-ryan-mcmahon","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643790","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=643790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}