Everything\u2019s been coming up Yankees for the first week or so of the 2026 season. After a 5-1 West Coast trip to open the season that went about as good as anyone could\u2019ve asked for, the Bronx Bombers came home to face an equally hot Miami Marlins team that was feeling good about themselves after a 5-1 start of their own, all at home.<\/p>\n
Although the Marlins struck first off Will Warren early, the 26-year-old settled in and delivered a solid outing that would be more than enough for the Yankees. Aaron Judge set the tone with an early home run and had his first multi-hit game of the season, while Ben Rice shook off three strikeouts to start the game by adding much-appreciated insurance late to continue his blisteringly hot start, as the Yankees took the series opener on Friday afternoon, 8-2.<\/p>\n
The very start of the game didn\u2019t go so hot for the Yankees, as the first roll call of the season was rudely interrupted by an Xavier Edwards solo home run to right field to give Miami a near-immedaite 1-0 lead. It was remarkably the first dinger allowed all year by the Yankees\u2019 pitching staff through seven games. Warren, unfazed by the quick deficit he faced, rebounded to get the next two hitters.<\/p>\n
Of course, that lead didn\u2019t last too long. Trent Grisham worked a leadoff walk off 22-year-old fireballer Eury P\u00e9rez, and just three pitches later, the captain rang in 2026 at Yankee Stadium with a monstrous two-run shot to left to flip the scoreboard and make it 2-1 Yankees. Statcast says it only went 378 feet, but it sure didn\u2019t look like it.<\/p>\n
Warren settled in and pitched a clean second with a pair of strikeouts. In the bottom half, the Yankees struck for another two runs without recording a hit. Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jos\u00e9 Caballero, Ryan McMahon, and Grisham all worked walks, with Chisholm and Caballero contributing to P\u00e9rez\u2019s meltdown by stealing three bases<\/a> between them.<\/p>\n Already allowing one run to score, P\u00e9rez plunked Judge on the first pitch to make it 4-1. With the bases juiced and only one out, the young righty finally found his composure and retired the next two to get out of trouble.<\/p>\n Miami went down in order in both the third and fourth innings against Warren, who looked composed on the mound even when Liam Hicks almost took his head off with a hard liner that ended in a 6-3 groundout. Chisholm doubled in the third and got to third on a long fly out from Austin Wells, but was stranded when a push bunt by Caballero was snuffed out by the Marlins\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n The Fish were finally able to take a chunk off of Warren in the fifth, as Owen Caissie, the centerpiece of the Edward Cabrera trade, smashed his second home run of the season to right-center to cut it to 4-2. While Warren sat down the last two hitters to get through the fifth, it marked the first time that a Yankees starter had allowed multiple runs in a game. As a reminder, this is the seventh game of the year.<\/p>\n The Yankees weren\u2019t very good at ABS today, as Cody Bellinger\u2019s narrow miss in the fifth had the team out of challenges for the first time all year. He made up for it with a double off new Marlins\u2019 pitcher Tyler Phillips, but he was stranded.<\/p>\n Warren got the first two outs of the sixth before a pair of ground ball singles ended his day, with the finishing blow being a swinging bunt by former Yankees prospect Agustin Ram\u00edrez. It was a solid day for Warren, who was a split-second from a quality start but went 5.2 good innings without walking a batter. Tim Hill came on to face the lefty and did Tim Hill things, quickly inducing an inning-ending groundout.<\/p>\n A very similar rally to the one in the second started in the sixth. Wells walked, Caballero reached on an E5, and some good baserunning set the team up with second and third with one out and the top of the order up. Of course, they didn\u2019t get a hit, but they got a run. After Judge walked, Phillips spiked a pitch in the dirt for a run-scoring wild pitch to make it 5-2.<\/p>\n Jake Bird got the seventh for the Yankees and continued an impressive start to the season with a powerful 1-2-3 inning.<\/p>\n The Marlins went to Michael Petersen after our first \u201cGod Bless America\u201d of the season and were rudely greeted by Rice, who bounced back after striking out in his first three at-bats by thumping a hard liner into the short porch for his second homer of the season. 110.9 mph and 353 feet later, it was 6-2, Yanks.<\/p>\n Brent Headrick and his curious reverse splits<\/a> pitched the eighth and tore through 8-9-1 in the Marlins order with a pair of strikeouts. We then got a pretty awkward bottom of the eighth, where Grisham walked, and Judge singled him to third, but a bizarre collision<\/a> led to Grisham\u2019s foot briefly coming off the bag and allowed Leo Jim\u00e9nez to tag him in the ankle, ruling him out.<\/p>\n There was no need to worry though, as Bellinger walked and Rice finally got the Yankees\u2019 first hit with runners in scoring position by drilling a two-run double off the right-field wall to make it 8-2. They finished the day 1-for-13 in such situations, despite scoring eight runs.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Rule 5 pick Cade Winquest, we still didn\u2019t get to see his MLB debut, so it was Ryan Yarbrough who made his season debut in the ninth. Edwards made a bid for his second extra-base-hit of the day to start the inning, only to be robbed by an acrobatic catch from Bellinger that even shocked him.<\/p>\n After plunking Ram\u00edrez, Yarbrough made up for it by picking him off second base to get the second out, before inducing a game-ending flyout to lock down the win.<\/p>\n The Yankees will look for their fourth consecutive win and another series victory in the middle game against the Marlins tomorrow. Southpaw Ryan Weathers faces off against his former teammate in Miami, righty Max Meyer, tomorrow at 7:05pm ET on YES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything\u2019s been coming up Yankees for the first week or so of the 2026 season. 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