{"id":713930,"date":"2026-05-31T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:03:57","slug":"new-york-yankees-the-athletics-will-warren-vs-jacob-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/713930\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees @ The Athletics: Will Warren vs. Jacob Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"

May has been a hit-or-miss month for the Yankees, and so has this series. They dominated the Athletics<\/a> on Friday, only to lose behind a trio of homers last night. With Will Warren on the hill, they stand the chance today to win a game, win a key series, and hopefully put the messiness of the last 30 days behind them.<\/p>\n

The soon-to-be 27-year-old Warren has taken a step forward so far this year, with a solid 3.55 ERA and very impressive 3.27 FIP, built upon significant cuts to his walk and home run rate. The strikeouts are still there, to be sure, but Warren\u2019s progress has been buoyed by him making fewer mistakes. Warren is for now the No. 5 starter in the rotation, but he\u2019s top 40 by ERA and 27th in all of baseball. If that\u2019s the way the supposed weakest link in your rotation is going, you\u2019re eating pretty good. For what it\u2019s worth, Warren had his career-best outing by Game Score last May in this very ballpark, dominating the A\u2019s with 7.1 innings of four-hit, one-run ball with seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n

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Jacob Lopez<\/a> goes for \u201cSacremento,\u201d and he is exactly the kind of pitcher the Yankees should feast on. He gives up 2+ HR\/9 while walking 13.5 percent of batters faced, while seeing a BABIP that\u2019s not quite league average but isn\u2019t far off. He\u2019s not a victim of bad luck \u2014 he struggles to find the strike zone and when he does its hittable. That should appeal greatly to a team trained to attack mistakes and let border pitches go, but then again we\u2019ve seen more than one 5+ ERA hurler toss blanks against this team in previous seasons.<\/p>\n

We have a couple changes to the ordinary lineup today, with Jos\u00e9 Caballero<\/a> batting fifth (and I triple-checked) and manning the hot corner, while Max Schuemann<\/a> gets the start at second while he\u2019ll hit eighth. Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> is once again penciled in for a start, leading us off in front of the familiar Ben Rice-Aaron Judge-Cody Bellinger trio.<\/p>\n

Yes, we have one more afternoon start to endure.<\/p>\n

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Location:\u00a0Sutter Health Park \u2014 West Sacramento, CA<\/p>\n

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First pitch:\u00a04:05 pm EDT<\/p>\n

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