{"id":665939,"date":"2026-04-06T05:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:53:40","slug":"yankees-late-rally-falls-short-after-bullpen-implodes-in-loss-to-marlins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665939\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees\u2019 late rally falls short after bullpen implodes in loss to Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows New York Yankees pitcher Jake Bird looking down at a baseball in his glove<\/p>\n

An interminable rain delay before Sunday\u2019s game at Yankee Stadium was far from the ugliest part of the day for a team that entered as hot as any in the sport.<\/p>\n

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The Yankees blew a three-run lead to the Marlins in a 7-6 defeat, as a bullpen filled with question marks imploded in the eighth inning and the lineup mostly disappeared after the third.<\/p>\n

Down by three runs in the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees rallied with walks by Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice.<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton struck out looking before Jazz Chisholm Jr. doubled in the gap to right-center to get the Yankees to within a run.<\/p>\n

After an intentional walk to Austin Wells, J.C. Escarra pinch hit for Jos\u00e9 Caballero and struck out to end it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t think the game is over until the last out,\u201d Chisholm said of the late drama.<\/p>\n

The defeat was surprising, but what caused it wasn\u2019t, as even with the Yankees winning eight of their first nine games \u2014 and four in a row entering Sunday \u2014 there were some lingering questions.<\/p>\n

\"Jake<\/p>\n

Jake Bird (59) reacts after giving Miami Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley (21) a two-run RBI double during the 8th inning of the Yankees and Miami Marlins game at Yankee Stadium. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

At the forefront was the pen, filled with pitchers with lackluster r\u00e9sum\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

And the lack of production from the bottom of the lineup has been alarming.<\/p>\n

Both were on display in the loss.<\/p>\n

Jake Bird and Ryan Yarbrough gave up run-scoring hits in the decisive eighth inning, but they weren\u2019t the only culprits.<\/p>\n

The game began well enough, as the Yankees brushed off an early run allowed by Max Fried \u2014 his first of the season \u2014 with Rice\u2019s three-run homer in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n

It was Rice\u2019s third home run in his past four games.<\/p>\n

The 410-foot blast into the second deck in right came against Pete Fairbanks, who opened the game because he had to return to Miami for his wife\u2019s induced labor Monday.<\/p>\n

The bizarre strategy backfired early, as Fairbanks was terrible in the first, but Yankees hitters hardly did anything once he left.<\/p>\n

They scraped together an unearned run in the third to make it 4-1 against Miami\u2019s scheduled starter, Chris Paddack.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

New York Yankees first baseman Ben Rice (22) watches his three-run homer during the first inning of the Yankees and Miami Marlins game at Yankee Stadium. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

And with Fried on the mound \u2014 having pitched 13 \u00b9\/\u2083 shutout innings to open the season \u2014 that seemed like it would be enough.<\/p>\n

But Fried wasn\u2019t sharp and lamented the three walks he issued, as he allowed three runs in 6 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings.<\/p>\n

Miami got a run back in the fourth and inched closer in the sixth, as the first three runners reached \u2014 including on a throwing error by Caballero on Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s grounder to short.<\/p>\n

Fried picked off Hern\u00e1ndez at first and then Caballero made up for his miscue by throwing out Lopez at the plate on Connor Norby\u2019s ground ball.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Fried (54) throws a pitch during the 5th inning of the Yankees and Miami Marlins game at Yankee Stadium. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

\"Giancarlo<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton (27) hits a single during the 7th inning when the New York Yankees played the Miami Marlins Sunday, April 5, 2026 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez missed the call despite Wells clearly tagging Lopez\u2019s elbow, but a replay review overturned it to preserve the Yankees lead.<\/p>\n

But the game came apart in the eighth.<\/p>\n

With the bullpen short after being used heavily, the Yankees went to Bird with one on and one out in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Bird walked Lopez, hit pinch hitter Griffin Conine and then gave up a two-run, go-ahead double to pinch hitter Graham Pauley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to bear down and I didn\u2019t do my job,\u201d Bird said. \u201cJust not a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Down a run, the lefty Yarbrough entered and allowed a single to Xavier Edwards to make it a three-run game.<\/p>\n

It proved to be too much for the Yankees to come back from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows New York Yankees pitcher Jake Bird looking down at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1217,5,731,752,1365,9350,6468,310,14492,547,17906,1121,1119,1363,1965,1816,108,58,4,1690,62,2548,2547,848,4581,6878,5000,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-665939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-austin-wells","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ben-rice","11":"tag-chris-paddack","12":"tag-cody-bellinger","13":"tag-connor-norby","14":"tag-eighth-inning","15":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","16":"tag-graham-pauley","17":"tag-griffin-conine","18":"tag-heriberto-hernandez","19":"tag-j-c-escarra","20":"tag-jake-bird","21":"tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","22":"tag-jose-caballero","23":"tag-marlins","24":"tag-max-fried","25":"tag-miami-marlins","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-new-york","28":"tag-new-york-yankees","29":"tag-newyork","30":"tag-newyorkyankees","31":"tag-pete-fairbanks","32":"tag-ryan-yarbrough","33":"tag-xavier-edwards","34":"tag-yankee-stadium","35":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356214812296980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665939","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=665939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}