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Yankees pitcher Will Warren (29) pitches in the second inning when the New York Yankees played the Miami Marlins in their home opener. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
Despite the 2026 Yankees being a near carbon copy of last year\u2019s team, they have seemed more aggressive. Even Austin Wells looked agile in tagging from second base on a fly ball to left field, a nifty dive eluding a tag.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we became that [aggressive club] in the second half of last season, where night in and night out, we\u2019re rolling a good amount of some speed and some athletes out there to where that slowly became a little more of our identity,\u201d said manager Aaron Boone, who watched the club\u2019s athleticism peak in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n
In a game that already was decided, Cody Bellinger sprinted backward on a deep drive from Edwards, raised his glove on the run for an over-the-shoulder attempt and watched as the ball hit off the heel of his glove. He then stabbed backwards with his glove and caught the ball, somehow, on the backhand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should\u2019ve caught it the first time,\u201d Bellinger said with a smile.<\/p>\n
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Ben Rice went deep in the victory. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
The Yankees walked 11 times, constantly threatened and yet did not secure the game until the late innings, when Rice put it away.<\/p>\n
After striking out in his first three at-bats, Rice first visited the short porch for a solo shot in the seventh, then came through with the Yankees\u2019 first hit with runners in scoring position, a two-run double that made it a laugher in the eighth.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething I always tell myself,\u201d Rice said, \u201cis I want that next AB. I want the fourth, I want the fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The swings were more helpful for the environment than the Yankees\u2019 pitching staff, which did not need the added cushion. Tim Hill (who escaped an inherited, two-on jam), Jake Bird (a clean inning in his Bronx debut), Brent Headrick and Ryan Yarbrough combined for 3 \u00b9\/\u2083 perfect, four-strikeout innings, Yankees pitchers having allowed eight runs total over their first seven games.<\/p>\n
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The Yankees outfielders celebrate the home opener win. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n
In just about every facet, the Yankees have opened this season crisp \u2014 including in garb. On Thursday night, Judge texted his teammates, \u201cHey, suits tomorrow,\u201d Warren relayed.<\/p>\n
For the home opener, they responded by dressing and playing as sharply as the new scoreboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[106,1217,5,731,14554,1365,1072,1119,1363,1965,1816,778,58,4171,4,4581,619,4791,772,6878,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-662010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-austin-wells","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-rice","12":"tag-brent-headrick","13":"tag-cody-bellinger","14":"tag-eury-perez","15":"tag-jake-bird","16":"tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","17":"tag-jose-caballero","18":"tag-marlins","19":"tag-miami","20":"tag-miami-marlins","21":"tag-miamimarlins","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-ryan-yarbrough","24":"tag-seattle","25":"tag-tim-hill","26":"tag-will-warren","27":"tag-xavier-edwards","28":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116344141466780198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662010","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=662010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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