{"id":563127,"date":"2026-04-04T00:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:37:14","slug":"yankees-8-2-marlins-apr-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563127\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees 8-2 Marlins (Apr 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — \u2014 Aaron Judge<\/a> hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the first inning, and the New York Yankees<\/a> beat the Miami Marlins<\/a> 8-2 in their home opener Friday for their second 6-1 start in three seasons.<\/p>\n

Trent Grisham<\/a> reached leading off with the first of 11 walks by Marlins pitchers and Judge drove a slider into the left-field seats against Eury P\u00e9rez (0-1).<\/p>\n

Judge, who had three RBI, hit a record 20 first-inning home runs last year<\/a>, when he finished with 53. Three of Judge’s five hits this season have been home runs.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> homered and hit a two-run double for the Yankees.<\/p>\n

Will Warren<\/a> (1-0) allowed four hits in 5 2\/3 innings, including solo homers by Xavier Edwards<\/a> in the first and Owen Caissie<\/a> in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Miami entered the game at 5-1, matching its franchise-best start, and had spent six days atop the NL East \u2014 double its total for 2021-25 combined. Miami pitchers had their most walks since April 2023; they had walked just nine in the team’s first six games.<\/p>\n

P\u00e9rez (0-1) allowed four runs, two hits and a career-high six walks in four innings. He forced in runs on consecutive pitches in the second when he walked Grisham and hit Judge. Tyler Phillips<\/a> threw a run-scoring wild pitch in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr<\/a>. and Jos\u00e9 Caballero each had two stolen bases and Judge one off catcher Liam Hicks<\/a>, who has allowed 60 steals in 66 attempts since reaching the major leagues last year.<\/p>\n

Up Next <\/p>\n

Yankees LHP Ryan Weathers<\/a> (0-0), acquired from the Marlins in January<\/a>, starts Saturday night against Miami RHP Max Meyer<\/a> (0-0).<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — \u2014 Aaron Judge hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the first inning, and the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-563127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}