NEW YORK, NY APRIL 04: Giancarlo Stanton 27 of the New York Yankees looks on during the game against the Miami Marlins at Yankee Stadium on April 4, 202in New York, New by New York Yankees Estevo Maximo is a sportswriter from can also find his work at True Blue LA and Pitcher Saturday night's game thread, we mentioned how Giancarlo Stanton hadn't had much success against his former team, but in this backandforth affair, the gamewinning atbat came from the Yankees' drove in a pair in the eighth inning with a single to give the Yankees the lead in what ultimately became a 97 win, making the absolute most out of an ungodly number of free passes handed out by the Marlins: 10 in 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 a matchup of young starters, efficiency is half the 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 Yankees have made a point of getting Weathers to trust the changeup more Jazz Chisholm Jr. Jersey, but he couldn't really generate many chases on it against 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 , the worst result on a changeup for Weathers came in one that generated a at the plate with one on and two outs in the first, Otto Lopez protected against a twostrike change down below the zone, lifting a pop fly to right that had no business dropping in front of Aaron hit kept the inning going, and quickly thereafter both runners came around to score on a Heriberto Hernndez triplethe Marlins took the lead, an advantage they kept until the bullpens got much as Weathers could lament the poor battedball 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 the third, Hernndez 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 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 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 would be the last pitch Meyer would throw, and while the Yankees were unable to exercise a starting pitching advantagesort of a regular thing these daysthey had ample time to get to the Marlins bullpen with only a minor deficit to Nardi came in for Meyer, walked two, but got out of the fifth by retiring Jazz Chisholm , the Marlins sent Nardi back out there for the sixth in a move that didn't work Boone was aggressive with his bench and deployed the leftymasher Goldschmidt against 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, a game where virtually every pitcher struggled with command, Anthony Bender, who came in for Nardi, hit Jos Caballero to put the goahead run on Ryan McMahon's inability to get a bunt down, the top of the order was ready to pounce on this opportunityJudge tied it with an oppositefield poke down the rightfield line, and Bellinger secured the lead on a sac fly despite a worrisome slide from Trent sequence of the matchup saw the Yankees starter falter, the Marlins starter falter, and the Marlins bullpen Yankees held a late lead Mike Mussina Jersey, but the win wouldn't come that easy, as the Yankees' bullpen also had been successful in giving the Yankees an insurance run with adare we say itRickey Hendersoninspired turn around the walked on five pitches against Calvin Faucher, and one out later, he took advantage of the Marlins completely disregarding his presence on said thank you very much and stole second base, his first regularseason swipe in six years though he did steal a base in the 2024 ALDS against the Royals.A slow groundout from J. moved him to third, and when Faucher threw a wild one, Stanton scored his economic a tworun lead, Camilo Doval collapsed rather easily against the bottom of the Marlins Yankees' righthanded reliever allowed a tworun, gametying double to Javier Sanoja, the Marlins' ninthhole Headrick cleaned up his mess, but the lead had already all else before Gerrit Cole Jersey, this 6tie would be shortlived, as the Marlins managed to giftwrap the Yankees an opportunity in the bottom of the eighth by walking the bases loaded for Stanton with two had enough strength to muscle a ground ball through the infield and drive in a before he was sent to the Yankees in December 2017, Stanton rejected a trade from the Marlins to the mid2010s , this was the kind of rally that would've made that iteration of the Cards' franchise and passed balls were the Yankees' friend, and the latter added an insurance run after that Stanton single, making it 9when Ben Rice dented home 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 Yankees' closer coughed up one run and loaded the bases, putting the tying run at second and the goahead margin at striking out Griffin Conine to wrap up the both sides well short of their best game, the Yankees had just more reliable production in key moments for the '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 start time is scheduled for 1:35 p.m Marlins will counter with Chris Paddack.