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The Mets won consecutive games for the first time since the team's season-opening victories March 26 and 28 at the Pittsburgh Pirates, taking a 2-1 lead in this weekend's four-game series at the San Francisco Giants with Saturday's 9-0 rout.

Takeaways

1. Clay Holmes went a career-high-tying seven innings, matching the length of his June 1, 2025, start at the Colorado Rockies but delivering a better performance. He was solid in his first start of the 2026 campaign, last Monday's 4-2 win at the St. Louis Cardinals, and built on his season-opening start with arguably his best outing as a Met. He picked up where Nolan McLean left off from Friday's 10-3 win, allowing three hits while striking out four and walking two in seven scoreless innings.
   Holmes was not perfect, putting the leadoff runners on in the second and third innings before issuing a two-out walk to avoid a 1-2-3 fourth, but he kept the Giants (3-6) stranded across those frames while the Mets (5-4) held a 3-0 lead before entering his zone and getting stronger as the game progressed. Holmes (2-0, 1.42 ERA) threw 61 strikes on 90 pitches before Tobias Myers took the ball for the bullpen in the eighth and ninth innings.
2. Bo Bichette is improving. After owning his "terrible" at-bats from the Mets' opening weekend last Sunday, he has looked more like himself with five hits in the past two games. Bichette followed Friday's 3-for-5 breakthrough with Saturday's 2-for-5 encore, driving in a run for the third straight game with a fifth-inning single to shallow center field that padded the Mets' 4-0 lead and sparked a five-run frame.
   After a 2-for-22 stretch across five appearances in March, April has been a breath of fresh air for Bichette, who is 7 for 19 with three RBI through four games.
3. Mark Vientos is also trending up. His hit streak is up to four games, following Friday's 2-for-3 step in the right direction with a 3-for-5 breakthrough. Batting fifth and starting at first base, Vientos continued Bichette's fifth-inning momentum with an RBI single to right field that scored Bichette and extended the Mets' 5-0 lead.
   With or without Juan Soto, whose day-to-day status remains to be seen entering Sunday and beyond, the Mets need their big bats to step up. They got that Friday and Saturday in Bichette and Vientos, the latter of whom is 7 for 14 through four April games.
4. Tyrone Taylor, who replaced Soto in Friday's game, came off the bench as a pinch-hit substitution for sixth-batting left fielder Jared Young and blew the game open for the Mets. Taylor's 2-for-3 night featured a three-run homer in the fifth inning that exploded the Mets' 8-0 advantage.
   He added to his damage with an RBI single in the seventh inning that scoredBrett Baty and polished off the Mets' 9-0 final. After an 0-for-4 Friday, Taylor filled Soto's void and then some as the Mets turned a 5-0 win into a 9-0 rout.

Who's the MVP?

Holmes, who retired seven straight from the fifth inning into the seventh and left no doubt on the mound as the Mets piled runs against the Giants.

Highlights

Mark Vientos and Jared Young score on a Carson Benge fielder's choice and throwing error to give the Mets the 2-0 lead! pic.twitter.com/FV38uslshn

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Luis Torrens brings in Marcus Semien for the Mets third run of the inning! pic.twitter.com/rNBXco5H29

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Mark Vientos recovers nicely to secure the out 😅 pic.twitter.com/ad5BxjfOFG

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Bo Bichette's RBI single extends the lead! pic.twitter.com/XEoysGRrmb

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Mark Vientos brings home Bo Bichette and the Mets lead 5-0!

Vientos is 3 for 3 tonight 💪 pic.twitter.com/HHAfH80jfn

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

TYRONE TAYLOR 3-RUN PINCH HIT HOMER 💣 pic.twitter.com/rwXNbLwMWK

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Francisco Lindor shows off his hops 😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/CUM8AwLMjo

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Bo Bichette guns down Willy Adames to end the inning! pic.twitter.com/A5wyHUZN9W

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

A 1-2-3 inning for Clay Holmes 👏

Holmes has six scoreless innings on the night! pic.twitter.com/YpprFQ140s

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

Tyrone Taylor follows up his 3-run home run with an RBI single! pic.twitter.com/aTbKZl8p2T

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 5, 2026

What's next

The Mets look to take the four-game set at the Giants in Sunday's 4:05 p.m. finale on SNY.

New York is set to start Kodai Senga (0-1, 3.00 ERA) while San Francisco goes with Logan Webb (1-1, 7.36 ERA).

Do you feel déjà vu?

As was often the case in the two series against the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays, the Colorado Rockies wasted wonderful pitching with atrocious hitting.

Strikeouts and men left on base loomed large, as the Rox had their chances only to come up just one run short as the Philadelphia Phillies take the series in Denver.

There’s even more déjà vu as the City of Brotherly Love continues to show no love to Colorado, with tonight’s win making the ninth straight over the Rockies for Philadelphia.

Saturday strategy switch-up

The Rockies entered Saturday with a clear approach to the game’s pitching, hinging on a clean outing from Brennan Bernardino before Chase Dollander would get the bulk of the innings.

Unfortunately, you know what they say about the best laid plans.

Bernardino had been efficient in his four appearances this season, giving up zero runs and walks heading into today’s start. Sadly, he had a shaky start, walking Trea Turner first and then giving up a broken bat RBI double to Kyle Schwarber.

As expected, the Rockies were ready to turn to Chase Dollander early, getting him warmed up a few batters in. Not expected, however, was needing to use Jimmy Herget to get the final out of the inning after Bernardino walked Bryson Stott with Schwarber on third.

Given the looming matchups in the second inning, Warren Schaeffer would sit Dollander to try and get a few more outs from Herget.

Herget did indeed notch those, punching out Adolis Garcia to end the first and getting three straight outs in the second, limiting the damage to 1-0 going into the bottom of the inning.

Not ideal, but not catastrophic.

Dollander delivers

Dollander arrived as advertised, striking out Turner with a fireball. He sat Schwarber down on strikes right after that, ultimately tallying six impressive K’s on the night.

He gave up the one deciding run in his 4.1 innings pitched, but overall looked very effective and was able to work out of a few jams comfortably. He was the bright spot of the night, handing off a 2-1 game to Jaden Hill and giving the Rockies a chance.

Unfortunately, his performance did not receive any run support from the Rockies’ bats.

At least it was close?

Look, the bar is low right now.

Today wasn’t the 10-1 Home Opener drubbing. But it didn’t feel great either.

The Rockies are now 1-4 in one-run games. It felt like the game was right there, all the way down the stretch.

The Phillies would leave more men on than the Rockies, with nine LOB for Philadelphia and five LOB for Colorado. In good news, Colorado’s pitching was able to stave off a number of runs that would’ve been early nails in the coffin. In bad news, the Rockies probably only left five on because they couldn’t get them there in the first place.

Brett Sullivan looked solid today, as the only Rockies batter with more than one hit.

Sullivan’s RBI single in the third would provide a glimmer of hope. Sadly, the bottom of the order was doing way too much of the heavy lifting, and it would not be enough.

A familiar issue

The Rockies have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad problem right now: strikeouts.

This marks the third straight game of double digit strikeouts. Not just “barely over nine” double digit either. 17 strikeouts against the Blue Jays on Wednesday. 15 more yesterday. 13 more tonight.

Several of those came on key moments, too.

Colorado had a chance in the seventh. With Ezequiel Tovar on second and Troy Johnston on first, Kyle Karros would go down swinging for the last out.

The game ended on a big ol’ dud as well. Willi Castro ended it all trying to check his swing but going around for the unlucky 13th game-ending strikeout.

Up Next

The Phillies and Rockies will close out the series with a Sunday afternoon showdown at 1:10 p.m. Taijuan Walker and Tomoyuki Sugano, both decision-less in their respective starts this season, will take the mound. The Rockies will hope to keep the brooms locked away before the Houston Astros come to town.

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In Saturday night’s game thread, we mentioned how Giancarlo Stanton hadn’t had much success against his former team, but in this back-and-forth affair, the game-winning at-bat came from the Yankees’ DH. Stanton drove in a pair in the eighth inning with a single to give the Yankees the lead in what ultimately became a 9-7 win, making the absolute most out of an ungodly number of free passes handed out by the Marlins: 10 in total.

Before the Yankees could take control of things late in the ballgame, plenty of walks were distributed on both sides as the pitching staffs struggled to find their footing. In a matchup of young starters, efficiency is half the battle. Unfortunately for Ryan Weathers, that was something he sorely lacked against his old teammates, averaging well over 20 pitches per inning and thus unable to complete four full frames before Miami could chase him out of the ballgame.

The Yankees have made a point of getting Weathers to trust the changeup more, but he couldn’t really generate many chases on it against Miami. Able to lay off the changeup consistently, the Fish worked three walks against Weathers, which was pivotal in driving up his pitch count for an early exit. Still, the worst result on a changeup for Weathers came in one that generated a chase. Up at the plate with one on and two outs in the first, Otto Lopez protected against a two-strike change down below the zone, lifting a pop fly to right that had no business dropping in front of Aaron Judge. That hit kept the inning going, and quickly thereafter both runners came around to score on a Heriberto Hernández triple—the Marlins took the lead, an advantage they kept until the bullpens got involved.

As much as Weathers could lament the poor batted-ball luck in that first inning, his performance over the whole game didn’t quite justify a much better result than the three runs allowed in 3.2 innings of work — needing 88 pitches to record just 11 outs. In the third, Hernández proved he was locked in against Weathers, this time taking him on a ride to right field on a ball that fell just short of going out, requiring a leaping grab from Judge.

While Max Meyer did a better job than Weathers at stranding runners, the Miami starter walked in the early goings, allowing only a single hit through four; the Yankees got to him in the fifth. Aaron Judge hit a rocket single, and then Cody Bellinger took advantage of a slider up in the zone to go deep for the first time in 2026.

That would be the last pitch Meyer would throw, and while the Yankees were unable to exercise a starting pitching advantage—sort of a regular thing these days—they had ample time to get to the Marlins bullpen with only a minor deficit to erase.

Andrew Nardi came in for Meyer, walked two, but got out of the fifth by retiring Jazz Chisholm Jr. Surprisingly, the Marlins sent Nardi back out there for the sixth in a move that didn’t work out. Aaron Boone was aggressive with his bench and deployed the lefty-masher Goldschmidt against Nardi. The southpaw was careful, leading to a walk that would spark the big inning the Yankees needed to take control of this affair (for the first time, anyway).

In a game where virtually every pitcher struggled with command, Anthony Bender, who came in for Nardi, hit José Caballero to put the go-ahead run on base. Following Ryan McMahon’s inability to get a bunt down, the top of the order was ready to pounce on this opportunity—Judge tied it with an opposite-field poke down the right-field line, and Bellinger secured the lead on a sac fly despite a worrisome slide from Trent Grisham.

The sequence of the matchup saw the Yankees starter falter, the Marlins starter falter, and the Marlins bullpen falter. The Yankees held a late lead, but the win wouldn’t come that easy, as the Yankees’ bullpen also faltered.

Stanton had been successful in giving the Yankees an insurance run with a—dare we say it—Rickey Henderson-inspired turn around the bases. He walked on five pitches against Calvin Faucher, and one out later, he took advantage of the Marlins completely disregarding his presence on first. Stanton said “thank you very much” and stole second base, his first regular-season swipe in six years (though he did steal a base in the 2024 ALDS against the Royals). A slow groundout from J.C. Escarra moved him to third, and when Faucher threw a wild one, Stanton scored his economic run.

Protecting a two-run lead, Camilo Doval collapsed rather easily against the bottom of the Marlins order. The Yankees’ right-handed reliever allowed a two-run, game-tying double to Javier Sanoja, the Marlins’ ninth-hole hitter. Brent Headrick cleaned up his mess, but the lead had already vanished.

As all else before, this 6-6 tie would be short-lived, as the Marlins managed to gift-wrap the Yankees an opportunity in the bottom of the eighth by walking the bases loaded for Stanton with two outs. Stanton had enough strength to muscle a ground ball through the infield and drive in a pair.

Just before he was sent to the Yankees in December 2017, Stanton rejected a trade from the Marlins to the mid-2010s Cardinals. Well, this was the kind of rally that would’ve made that iteration of the Cards’ franchise proud.

Walks and passed balls were the Yankees’ friend, and the latter added an insurance run after that Stanton single, making it 9-6 when Ben Rice dented home plate. That was just enough to survive a massive scare in the ninth by David Bednar, who seems to have penchant for late drama (not helped by some nonchalance from Chisholm that allowed the first man on). The Yankees’ closer coughed up one run and loaded the bases, putting the tying run at second and the go-ahead margin at first. before striking out Griffin Conine to wrap up the W. With both sides well short of their best game, the Yankees had just more reliable production in key moments for the victory.

It’s always a good day when Max Fried takes the mound, and with a sweep on the line, that’ll be the treat for fans attending Yankee Stadium on Sunday afternoon, particularly those who hung around for the end of his marathon. The start time is scheduled for 1:35 p.m (EST). The Marlins will counter with Chris Paddack, who got absolutely rocked by the White Sox in his first start of 2026.

Box Score

The Philadelphia Phillies (5-3) grew their early season win streak to four games as they came out on the right side of a rare pitchers’ duel in Denver, defeating the Colorado Rockies (2-6) by a score of 2-1 on Saturday night.

Jesus Luzardo bounced back from his rough first start with a 6.2 IP 11 K gem. The Rockies scattered five hits and scored once against Luzardo during his 99 pitch performance.

The Rockies opted for a left-handed opener in Brennan Bernardino, who didn’t make it out of the first inning as the Phils opened the scoring two batters into the game via a leadoff walk by Trea Turner and a broken bat double by Kyle Schwarber.

Colorado tied it up in the bottom of the third on a pair of singles by Troy Johnston and Brett Sullivan.

Rockies’ young right handed starter, Chase Dollander, ate the majority of innings in the game from the third into the seventh and largely kept the Phillies’ offense at bay.

They finally cracked him in the top of the fifth inning as Brandon Marsh led off with a single followed by a JT Realmuto walk. Marsh came in to score the eventual winning run on a Turner double. Trea finished with two hits, a walk, a run scored and a run batted in, not to mention several solid defensive plays.

Alec Bohm, Bryson Stott and Justin Crawford each collected a hit while Bryce Harper and Adolis Garcia failed to reach base. Crawford notched his first of many career stolen bases and Garcia did contribute with a nice running catch.

Jose Alvarado came on in relief of Luzardo with two outs and a man on second in the bottom of the seventh and walked the next batter before getting out of the jam with a strikeout of Kyle Karros.

Brad Keller pitched a one-hit scoreless eighth and Jhoan Duran collected his third save of the season with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.

Taijuan Walker goes for the sweep tomorrow afternoon against Rockies’ right hander, Tomoyuki Sugano.

Okay, so this was a strange one. As was noted in 1AZFan1’s recap of last night’s shutout loss, our offense has been completely AWOL for several days now. This is something we’ve seen happen plenty over the last several years, but these multi-day offensive outages get exponentially more concerning when, as I and others have expended a lot of words on already this year, our pitching staff, both in the rotation and in the bullpen, is very much constructed of chewing gum, baling wire, and whatever found objects Mike Hazen was able to salvage from the local bins on garbage night. Having to rely primarily on our pitching does not fill me with confidence. Like, ever.

And yet.

This game, like all baseball games (at least the ones that don’t involve one or both teams using the “opener” strategy and therefore deciding in advance that it’s going to be a bullpen game), is first and foremost a contest between two pitchers. This was not a game where any openers were used. Bryce Elder was starting for the Atlanta Braves; Michael Soroka was going for the Diamondbacks. Usually, the team whose starter pitches the better game wins the baseball game. This is not always the case of course—the baseball gods are cruel and fickle and often whimsically malicious. But more often than not, that is the case.

So let’s break down the two pitchers’ performances. Both pitchers pitched well today, let’s get that out of the way right up front. Each starter only surrendered four hits over the course of the ballgame. Both bullpens, once they got involved, put up zeroes and allowed no baserunners. It was, by all measurements, a very well-pitched game on both sides.

Pitcher A threw 90 pitches over the course of seven innings of work. As noted, he gave up four hits. He walked one. He struck out eight. He surrendered zero earned runs. He faced the minimum in six of the seven innings he worked.

Pitcher B threw 91 pitches over the course of five innings of work, only giving up four hits and allowing one earned run. He walked three, and hit a batter, and struck out three. He allowed runners in every inning that he worked, not recording a single clean inning.

Naturally, you might expect that Pitcher A was Michael Soroka, given the fact that by the numbers it’s the far better performance, and as you gleaned from the headline, the Diamondbacks emerged from the contest with the victory.

You would be wrong. Remember, the baseball gods can be, after all, cruel and fickle and whimsically malicious. Also, the numbers don’t always tell the entire story. Pitcher A was in fact Bryce Elder. PitcherB was, in fact, Soroka. And yet we won.

So here’s how it happened. This will be necessarily short, because today as much as just about any game recently, our offense was pretty much entirely absent. Both Soroka and Elder worked a scoreless first, though Soroka tossed 17 pitches and walked Atlanta first baseman Matt Olson with two outs, while Elder sat down Ketel Marte, Corbin Carroll, and Geraldo Perdomo in order, only needing 10 pitches to do so.

It all comes down, really, to the second inning. Soroka walked former Giant Mike Yastrzemski to lead off the top of the second. Ozzie Albies followed with a grounder to the right side of the infield that advanced Yastrzemski to second. Michael Harris flew out to center, and then Dominic Smith, perpetual journeyman and currently the Braves’ designated hitter, swung at a full-count Soroka pitch that was up and outside, well out of the strike zone, and slapped it into left field to score the runner from second. 1-0 Atlanta

In the bottom of the second, however, it was our turn. Gabriel Moreno led off the frame with a ground ball single into center field. Adrian Del Castillo, who was functioning as our “designated hitter” (and, as it turned out, sinkhole of suck) today, struck out. Nolan Arenado grounded his own single to center, putting runners on first and second for everyone’s favorite dark horse rookie and Savior of the Lineup(TM), Jose Fernandez, who was manning first base this afternoon. Fernandez, somewhat surprisingly, squared up and bunted the first pitch he saw up the third base lane. It was supposed to be a sacrifice, but, well, instead this happened:

So, yeah, that sure was wacky. Throwing error by Elder that rolls up the line, Arenado runs through a J.R. House stop sign, the bunt is scored as a single, and two Diamondbacks runs cross the plate. Neither run was earned, so this game also earns the fun distinction in the box score of us scoring two runs but zero runs batted in.

I tell ya, you gotta love baseball sometimes. 2-1 D-BACKS

And that is also the last time the Braves pitchers faced more than the minimum three in an inning. That was in part thanks to the Diamondbacks grounding into two 3-6-3 double plays: one in the third off the bat of Perdomo to erase a one-out Corbin Carroll walk, and one by Del Castillo in the fourth to erase Gabriel Moreno’s leadoff single.

Seriously. The offense was not in the building today, once again. Which is both disappointing and concerning, but what can you do?

Meanwhile, Soroka pitched around more traffic in his remaining three innings of work—doubles, walks, singles, hit batsmen, all kinds of good stuff. But somewhat miraculously, while it felt, at least to me, like he was flirting with disaster the entire time, he nevertheless managed to escape again and again and finish his day with only the one run allowed.

Of course, when the starter exits after five frames, that means that the bullpen has to get involved, which tends to produce acid reflux responses in the Diamondbacks faithful, and with good reason. There was, however, no need to worry today. Wonders truly will never cease.

Taylor Clarke threw 12 pitches in a scoreless sixth, allowing no Braves to reach base. Jonathan Loaisiga threw 10 pitches in a scoreless seventh, allowing no Braves to reach base. Juan Morillo threw 14 pitches in a scoreless eighth, allowing no batters to reach base. Paul Sewald struck out two of the three batters he faced while throwing 21 pitches to redeem himself for last night’s implosion and nail down the save without any Braves hitters reaching base.

Dang. What a genuinely strange baseball game. 2-1 D-BACKS FINAL

Win Probability Added, courtesy of FanGraphs

Superfriends: Diamondbacks pitchers (9 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 7 K, +64.6% WPA)
Boy Wonder: Jose Fernandez (3 AB, 1 H, +15.1% WPA)
Suicide Squad: Diamondbacks hitters other than Fernandez (23 AB, 3 H, 1 BB, 9 K, -29.7% WPA)

It was a pretty quiet Gameday Thread today, which is understandable given how the first two games of this series went, and also that the NCAA Final Four was underway while the game was going on. At time of writing, we’re looking at 126 comments. A number went Sedona Red (or what passes for it these days), because we were apparently feeling generous with our rec’s today. By popular acclaim, this one goes to Snake_Bitten, who was not present in the Thread but was doing their part by being at the game in person, and also invoking the grace of the baseball gods to ensure Soroka’s success against his former team:

So despite the inauspicious beginning to the series, we find ourselves going into tomorrow’s game with the opportunity to salvage a series split! Brandon Pfaadt goes for us, lefty Michael Perez goes for Atlanta. This one will feature our home team broadcasters, which will be nice after two days of national broadcasts of varying quality. First pitch is scheduled for 1:10pm AZ time. Hope you can drop by!

As always, thanks so much for reading my maunderings, and as always, go Diamondbacks!

The way the season has begun for the Yankees, one step back has been accompanied by two steps forward.

For the first time this season, they could not rely upon supreme pitching, the club’s historic run thwarted with Ryan Weathers and later Camilo Doval on the mound.

It did not matter. The Yankees turned to Giancarlo Stanton and a multi-pronged offensive attack that helped them score nine of the final 12 runs to seize a wild and ugly game from the Marlins.

The Yankees dug a four-run hole, climbed back on top, blew that lead and then surged back ahead on the back (and legs) of Stanton in a roller-coaster, 9-7 victory in The Bronx on Saturday night. The 44,150 shivering fans on hand were rewarded for not leaving early on a night when the wind chill (in the 30s) and early deficit (trailing 4-0 after 4 innings) made the notion appealing.

With the comeback, the Yankees (7-1) matched their best start through eight decisions in franchise history, just the second time in the past 23 years they have won seven of their first eight.

Victory No. 7 was created differently. Yankees pitching had allowed eight runs over the first seven games, matching the 2002 Giants and 1993 Braves for the fewest in MLB history.

Weathers then allowed three runs before the end of the second inning and did not escape the fourth. Doval allowed two more in a wayward, lead-costing eighth.

But the Yankees lineup — which was outhit 15-6 but drew 10 walks and scored creatively rather than emphatically — was the difference-maker.

“Cold, windy, behind early,” manager Aaron Boone would say, “and the quality of at-bat just never went away.”

The biggest moment belonged to Stanton, who watched Doval struggle in the top of the eighth and then stepped up with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning with the game tied.

Known for blasts, Stanton fought a seven-pitch battle against righty Michael Petersen before poking a single through the left side that plated the two go-ahead runs for a lead that would hold up.

The Yankees hope this season ends differently in part because they believe they will be less reliant on the long ball and can jump-start their offense using various means. Stanton — and his teammates — demonstrated as much during the comeback:

• In the fifth, the four-run deficit was cut in half when Aaron Judge singled and Cody Bellinger crushed a Max Meyer slider over the wall in right-center for a two-run shot.

• In the sixth, small ball and substitutions were the key. A pinch-hitting Paul Goldschmidt walked before José Caballero was drilled. Trent Grisham chopped an RBI single through the left side for one run before Judge snuck a single down the first-base line for another to tie it. Needing contact, the Yankees found it again with Bellinger, who lifted a fly ball to left that was just deep enough to score Grisham from third as he angled a slide and dragged his foot across home plate.
• Insurance arrived in the seventh in a fashion that the Yankees probably cannot count upon ever happening again. Stanton — whose last steal came in the pandemic season of 2020 — walked, took a lead, took a bigger lead as he was not being held on the base and then took off for a sneak-attack steal.

“Awesome,” Boone said.

“The boys were fired up,” Bellinger added.

“If they’re going to give it to me,” Stanton said, “I got to go get it.”

He moved to third on a groundout and then scored on a two-out passed ball, one of the slowest runners in baseball single-handedly manufacturing a run that made it 6-4.

That lead disappeared in the eighth, when Doval — who struggled last season after coming over from the Giants — allowed three hits that turned into two runs.

But further hiccups from Doval did not matter. Neither did a misplay from Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the ninth, which created more work for David Bednar (fourth save). Neither did the issues of Weathers, who let up three runs on six hits in 3 ²/₃ innings.

A Yankees offense that scored every which way made sure of that.

“It seems like everyone had a big at-bat tonight in some way, shape or form,” Boone said, “to allow us to score a bunch of runs, which obviously tonight we needed.”

The Yankees offense woke up from their slumber to score six unanswered runs. But after the bullpen coughed up the lead, Giancarlo Stanton's two-run single in the eighth lifted New York to a 9-7 win on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees had just six hits and were 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position -- with nine left on base -- but they took advantage of their 11 walks, the second consecutive game in which they had that many, and the Marlins' mistakes.

Here are the takeaways

-Ryan Weathers wasn't long for this game as he labored early and often. In the first inning, a one-out walk and a two-out bloop single put runners on the corners before Heriberto Hernandez split the outfielders with a triple that plated two. Weathers would get out of the inning without further damage, but it took the young southpaw 31 pitches.

The second inning wasn't much better. Back-to-back singles (one of the infield variety) to lead off the inning put Weathers in another jam. Weathers got a slow roller to Jazz Chisholm Jr., but he and Jose Caballero couldn't complete the double play. Austin Wells caught the runner trying to steal second for the second out, but Weathers could not get the third out. He walked the next batter and allowed an RBI single to Agustin Ramirez to put the Yankees behind 3-0.

Weathers struggled in the third but escaped without allowing more runs and got the first two batters out in the fourth before he was pulled.

The southpaw tossed 88 pitches (53 strikes) in 3.2 innings pitched. He allowed three runs on six hits, three walks, while striking out four batters. In his first two starts of the season, Weathers has now allowed four runs in 7.2 innings pitched.

It's the first time a Yankees starter allowed more than two runs this season.

-The Yankees offense struggled early on against starter Max Meyer, but they had their chances. Their best chance came in the third. The first two batters reached for Aaron Judge, but the reigning MVP hit a deep drive to center that the center fielder ran down. After Cody Bellinger walked to load the bases, Ben Rice struck out swinging before Stanton popped out to the catcher to end the threat.

New York had one hit through the first four innings, but then Judge hit a two-out single and Bellinger launched his first home run of the season to cut the Marlins' lead to 4-2. The Yankees would get two more batters on, but Chisholm struck out swinging to strand two more.

The Yankees had another chance in the sixth after the first two batters got on. McMahon struck out looking before Trent Grisham singled home Paul Goldschmidt -- who pinch-hit for Wells. Judge followed with an opposite-field single down the first base line to tie the game. Bellinger hit a sacrifice fly to give the Yankees their first lead of the game.

-The Yankees' sixth run of the game came in an unexpected way. Stanton led off the seventh with a walk, and then stole second as the Marlins weren't holding him on. He moved to third on a groundout and came home to score on a wild pitch. It was Stanton's first regular season stolen base since 2020. But Stanton wasn't done. In the eighth, with the score tied at six apiece, Stanton muscled a two-run single with the bases loaded to put the Yankees up for good. Rice scored from third on a wild pitch, the second run scored this way of the night.

- Paul Blackburn was the first arm out the bullpen, but would allow an unearned run thanks to some poor defense. Blackburn gave up an infield single and then Jakob Marsee singled to left field, but Bellinger's throw to third base was not caught by Ryan McMahon or Blackburn -- who was covering -- allowing Ramirez to score from third.

Blackburn rebounded to get a few more outs before Tim Hill and Fernando Cruz locked the Marlins down. However, Camilo Doval came on in the eighth and allowed a single and a double to lead off the inning. He struck out a pinch-hitting Owen Caissie, but Javier Sanoja doubled to tie the game at 6-6. Brent Headrick replaced Doval and got the final two outs of the inning without further damage.

David Bednar came in and after an infield single thanks to Chisholm's double clutch, the Yankees closer delivered a one-out walk to bring the tying run to the plate. Xavier Edwards singled to cut the Yankees lead to 9-7. Caissie and Griffin Conine struck out swinging to end the game.

Here's the bullpen breakdown:

• Blackburn: 1.2 IP, 1 R, 3 H, 2 K
• Hill: 1.0 IP
• Cruz: 0.2 IP, 1 K
• Doval: 0.1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 K -- he's now allowed four runs in his last two outings 
• Headrick: 0.2 IP, 1 BB
• Bednar: 1.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K

Game MVP: Giancarlo Stanton

Stanton's bat and feet were the difference in this game.

Highlights

Cody Bellinger cuts the deficit in half with a 2-run shot 💪

It’s his first home run of the season! pic.twitter.com/zgU2Gh1HQp

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) April 5, 2026

2-RBI single for Giancarlo Stanton and the Yankees have the lead! pic.twitter.com/otewPouxq1

— Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) April 5, 2026

What's next

The Yankees and Marlins complete their three-game series on Sunday. First pitch set for 1:35 p.m.

Max Fried will take the mound for the third time this season. Miami, meanwhile, is set to start Chris Paddack.

Giancarlo Stanton has hit well this year, but with just one homer on the season.

He decided to make up for that with his legs during Saturday’s 9-7 win.

Yes, the player who has been plagued by lower body injuries for much of his time with the Yankees, basically manufactured a run by himself in the seventh inning against Miami in The Bronx.

G feels the need… the need for speed. pic.twitter.com/1hoYA6BxNk

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) April 5, 2026

He walked to lead off the bottom of the seventh and then stole second base with J.C. Escarra at the plate.

It was Stanton’s first stolen base in a regular season game since 2020 — although he did have one in the postseason two years ago, when he swiped second in Game 3 of the 2024 ALDS against the Royals.

Stanton’s move goes along with the Yankees’ plans towards “aggressive” baserunning.

He then moved to third on Escarra’s groundout to shortstop, which set up an insurance run, as Stanton raced home on a passed ball by Agustin Ramirez. 

It gave the Yankees a 6-4 lead.