With three home runs each in the fourth inning off Jesús Luzardo, Anthony Volpe and Juan Soto helped the New York Yankees thrash the Miami Marlins 7-0 on Monday night.
With a 9-2 record, New York equaled the team’s greatest 11-game start in its history.
After hitting his first home run at Yankee Stadium while wearing pinstripes, Soto received applause from supporters who stayed until the top of the next inning. He turned to cheer them on.
Amazing response from the audience. It was just amazing. With that one, they truly caught me off guard,” Soto remarked. You owe them a debt of gratitude for all the affection they’ve shown you. I just try to support them whenever I can.
In his debut season with the Yankees, who acquired the three-time All-Star from San Diego in December, he is hitting.357 with two home runs and ten RBIs.
Before the game, Soto was signing autographs until well before Nestor Cortes threw the first pitch.
“I hesitated a little bit because the game was scheduled to begin at 6:08,” Soto said. “I turned around and I have two minutes, and Nestor is almost moving.”
The Marlins fell to 1-10 a day after their victory in St. Louis, their first losing streak since a selloff that followed the team’s first World Series championship in 1998.
Luzardo stated, “You’re just going to dig yourself into a deeper hole if you look at it as a 1–10.” “It just involves trying to be the best version of yourself every single day out there.”
Pitching for the first time against his home club, Cortes (1-1) gave up two hits, struck out six and walked none in eight innings. Cortes has the longest outing by a Yankees starter this season and his longest since May 2022. Cortes triumphed for the first time since May 30 when a shoulder injury ended his 2023 campaign.
For the first time this season, Josh Maciejewski, a 28-year-old left-hander, shut out Miami with three groundouts on four pitches in his Major League debut.
With a flat slider over the fence in left-center field, Volpe gave the Yankees an early lead. Soto then doubled that lead with a first-pitch changeup over the right-field wall.
Luzardo (0-3), who gave up seven runs, eight hits, and five walks in 4 2/3 innings, was hit by an RBI single from Alex Verdugo in the fifth inning. Luzardo has faced the Yankees three times in his career, going against them with an 18.36 ERA and a 7.20 ERA this season.
Luzardo remarked, “The walks just really killed me.”
Both hits were from Bryan De La Cruz in Miami.
In order to avoid the solar eclipse last week, the first pitch was rescheduled four hours later to 6:05 p.m. A number of Yankees players were on the field at 3:30 p.m. to witness the diamond illuminated by an unsettling light.
Earlier, Yankees manager Aaron Boone stated, “The advice is we can’t be on the field for BP and that’s, from 2:10 to 4:40.” “I’m not sure if that is a directive or advice.”
A few minutes before the playing of the national anthem, Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” song “Eclipse” was heard.
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