{"id":666148,"date":"2026-04-06T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666148\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:26:42","slug":"3-takeaways-from-the-yankees-series-vs-the-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666148\/","title":{"rendered":"3 takeaways from the Yankees’ series vs. the Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite ending a three-game set against the Marlins with\u00a0a disappointing 7-6 loss<\/a> at the Stadium on Sunday, the Yankees won their third straight series to start the season.<\/p>\n

The Yankees won, 8-2, in Friday\u2019s home opener<\/a> and 9-7 on Saturday<\/a>. They are 7-2, tied with the Brewers\u00a0and the Dodgers for the best record in MLB.<\/p>\n

1. An overall strong start<\/p>\n

While Sunday\u2019s loss came in disheartening fashion, with the bullpen blowing a late 4-3 lead and the offense blowing too many chances with runners in scoring position, it would be hard to script the start\u00a0 to the season any better.<\/p>\n

After the Yankees\u2019 season-opening sweep of San Francisco, Aaron Judge noted that the club made an emphasis on finishing series with sweeps after struggling to do so the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

While they couldn\u2019t get that done against the Marlins, they showed different ways to win, coming back from a 4-0 deficit on Saturday and on Friday providing the shutdown pitching that carried them on their \u00a0season-opening 5-1 road trip. Losses like Sunday\u2019s will happen, but there\u2019s a lot to like from the Yankees (who are still awaiting major reinforcements in Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodon).<\/p>\n

2. Rice just rakes<\/p>\n

Ben Rice, now with a .370\/.528\/.852 slash line, has shown flashes that have led many to believe he could become one of the game\u2019s best hitters. He was \u00a03-for-10 against Miami \u2013 he did have five walks \u2013 but his hits were loud ones: a 110.9-mph, 353-foot solo shot and a 101.1-mph\u00a0two-run double on Friday, and a three-run homer Sunday that left the bat at\u00a0110 mph and traveled 410 feet, well into the second deck. He is among the game\u2019s hardest hitters as well, ranking in the 99th percentile in average exit velocity this season and the 95th percentile in 2025, according to Baseball Savant.<\/p>\n

Aaron Boone said Friday: \u201cI think he\u2019s a middle-of-the-order hitter and is going to be for a long time, and hopefully that means he\u2019s in those conversations [as one of baseball\u2019s best hitters] because he keeps getting better, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. Bottom of the order struggles<\/p>\n

The series was a rough one for the Yankees\u2019 Nos. 6-9 hitters: Jazz Chisholm Jr., Austin Wells, Jose Caballero and Ryan McMahon. The quartet, which started each of the three games against Miami in that order in the bottom of the lineup, went a combined 4-for-39 (.103) with nine walks and a hit by pitch in the series.\u00a0Chisholm is 7-for-36 (.194), Wells is 4-for-24 (.167), Caballero is 4-for-31 (.129) and McMahon is 2-for-23 (.087).<\/p>\n

Said Boone: \u201cWe need to get some more production there, and we will.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Dickson is Newsday Sports’ general assignment reporter. He joined Newsday\u2019s high school sports staff in 2023 after graduating from Maryland, where he covered several of the Terrapins’ teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite ending a three-game set against the Marlins with\u00a0a disappointing 7-6 loss at the Stadium on Sunday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4,62,7602],"class_list":{"0":"post-666148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-takeaways"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116357051406753656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666148","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=666148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}