The Yankees’ obvious subject from 2024 confirmed up once more, and it’s solely the second sport of the season.
They dedicated 5 errors throughout a 20-9 win over the Brewers on Saturday in The Bronx, offering a bitter asterisk to what is going to go down as a historic offensive sport.
Pablo Reyes, a non-roster invitee who bought one of many last bench spots and earned the platoon begin over Oswald Peraza in opposition to left-hander Nestor Cortes, dedicated two errors, whereas Anthony Volpe, Max Fried and Jazz Chisholm Jr. every accounted for one.
“Clearly, we didn’t catch the ball nice,” supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned, whereas later including that these miscues make it troublesome to guage Fried’s outing. “I imply, that’s an understatement.”
And consequently, Fried, making his Yankees debut to begin a $218 million deal and a marketing campaign the place he’ll be tasked with stepping in because the ace with Gerrit Cole sidelined, couldn’t make it out of the fifth inning to earn the win regardless of getting the entire run help.
He allowed six runs — with simply two earned — on seven hits, whereas strolling two batters and hitting two extra, throwing 94 pitches and touchdown 56 for strikes throughout an outing the place he additionally struggled with command at instances.
“Fairly annoyed about not having the ability to make that play within the second [inning] to get out of it,” Fried mentioned of his error. “However all in all, when your teammates help you and having the ability to have 16 runs within the first 4 innings, simply gotta have the ability to attempt to get as many outs as you probably can.”
The experiment with Goldschmidt hitting leadoff become greater than a spring coaching one-off.
With the Yankees dealing with their first left-handed starter of the season in Cortes after they resumed their collection in opposition to the Brewers, supervisor Aaron Boone gave his Recreation 1 lineup an entire overhaul — and that included the 37-year-old Goldschmidt main off for the primary time in his profession.
Goldschmidt, who inked a one-year deal within the offseason to turn out to be their new first baseman, hit leadoff throughout a March 22 Grapefruit League sport in opposition to the Phillies with lefty Jesús Luzardo on the mound, however Boone was noncommittal on the time about his plan for the common season.
On Saturday, that grew to become clear — a minimum of for one sport — and Goldschmidt opened with a house run en path to a day the place he went 2-for-3 with a stroll.
“Not essentially,” Boone mentioned pregame when requested if Goldschmidt will hit leadoff in opposition to all left-handed pitchers. “Kinda relies upon. This can be a little distinctive in who we’re dealing with and the way they’re aligned and every thing. … I imply, we may lookup in a month or two and any person else has sort of emerged to turn out to be the extra pure leadoff spot, however we’ll see.”
Ian Hamilton commenced a rehab task with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday and the Yankees count on him to be obtainable when he’s eligible to come back off the 15-day injured checklist April 8
Giancarlo Stanton has been taking swings within the cage, Boone mentioned, however hasn’t executed something “loopy but.” … Legendary Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia threw out the primary pitch. … The Yankees honored Lou Cucuzza Sr., the longtime visiting clubhouse supervisor who died final month at 86 years outdated, earlier than the sport.
