The Yankees bought some good vibes rolling on Monday evening.
The Bombers opened up a three-game collection towards the red-hot Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium with a wire-to-wire 6-2 victory, mashing 4 homers behind one other robust pitching efficiency from Will Warren.
Warren tossed 6.2 innings permitting two runs on three hits — two solo homers — whereas putting out seven. The best-hander gave the Yanks much-needed size as he was the primary pitcher to finish six innings since he did it on July 30 towards the Texas Rangers.
“He filled up the strike zone,” stated Boone. “No walks, starting with that, but you saw swing and miss with the heater, I thought the sweeper was good and he fell behind 3-0 a couple times and went right after it ended up getting those guys out. Big performance, that’s what it’s supposed to look like right there.”
The 26-year-old even noticed a rise in velocity as he topped out at 97.1 MPH and sat at 94.1 — 1.1 mph above his season common. Warren’s season ERA is right down to 4.34.
Warren has put collectively a stretch of 4 straight begins the place he’s gone at the very least 5 innings and given up two runs or much less. Monday’s efficiency was his second-longest outing of the season — he went 7.1 innings on Might 9 towards the A’s.
In the meantime, the Yankees are seeing one among their veterans nonetheless has a lot left within the tank. Monday’s right-fielder, Giancarlo Stanton, mashed his eleventh homer of the season within the third inning — with the membership main 1-0 because of a solo shot from Cody Bellinger within the first — to deep right-center discipline. Stanton was 2-for-5 on the evening as his season slash line is imposing at .281/.362/.548.
The 35-year-old additionally performed a clear proper discipline, making all of the routine performs at him and even confirmed off some… pace taking an additional base within the first inning on an error by Byron Buxton.
Stanton has been extremely efficient for the Yanks since returning and will count on to play extra proper discipline with Aaron Choose (elbow) restricted to DH duties to maintain his bat within the lineup.
Ben Rice adopted up Stanton’s shot with a solo bomb of his personal within the third inning to go back-to-back. Rice, the catcher, has seen extra time behind the plate because of the struggling Austin Wells — and the need of his bat within the lineup.
“He’s doing great,” stated Boone. “Feel like he’s getting more and more comfortable [behind the plate]. Seeing more and more of a presence and a confidence with just the game slowing down for him a little bit. It’s been really good to see and just more really good at bats.”
Rice, one of many hardest hitters in baseball, is slashing .235/.326/.463 with now 17 homers on the season and 38 RBI.
The Yanks added some insurance coverage within the backside of the seventh after Warren surrendered a solo shot to Trevor Larnach, reducing the result in 3-2. Ryan McMahon led off the inning with a double down the right-field line and later scored on an RBI-single from Trent Grisham. Choose added an RBI single to increase the result in 5-2.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. launched a solo shot within the eighth, delivering the exclamation level on a 10-hit evening for the membership.
Luke Weaver relieved Warren within the seventh and pitched a 1.1 scoreless innings earlier than handing off the ball to David Bednar for the shut. Bednar set the Twins down the order securing the victory.
Boone will flip to Carlos Rodon on Tuesday to safe the collection victory. The Twins have but to announce their starter.
Initially Printed: August 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM EDT
