Will Warren Off the Ropes for Another Win. NY 3 Homeless A’s 0

June 28, 2025 paperbacklou 2025 0

It is getting really fun to watch Will Warren pitch.

Not only does his ball MOVE — he is a favorite of Pitching Ninja who calls him a Michael King clone — but Warren has shown a propensity to get in and out of trouble with GUTS.

And so it was again that Warren got into trouble in the 1st inning — loading the bases on walks with 2 outs, then going 3-2 on former Yankee Gio Urshela, then a foul ball, and finally — with Allan Winans warming in the pen and Warren’s pitch count at 36 nearing 40 which would mean he’d be taken out of the game to prevent any arm injury to a rookie pitcher — he struck out Urshela looking.

But the Yankees went out 1-2-3 so Warren was back on the mound with no rest. And he proceeded to find his rhythm and mow them down — 5 shutout innings, en route to a 3-0 Yankee win over the Homeless A’s on a cool, overcast/foggy Friday night in the Bronx.

The Yankees scored a single run in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th — starting with a solo HR by Jazz Chisholm Jr. — and that was enough offense as the NY bullpen of Tim Hill, Fernando Cruz, Luke Weaver, and Devin Williams shut ’em down.

“He’s probably 2 hitters away from being out of the game,” said manager Aaron Boone afterwards about Warren. “But I thought his body language was good; he knew he was frustrated. He just continued to stay after it. I think he knows if he can get back in the zone he has the confidence that he has the stuff that he can get right out of that; get swing and miss in the strike zone, which he did. Really good effort. After that inning to give us 5 scoreless was a really nice job by him.”

“I feel like he’s really starting to use his sinker and his four-seamer, really well, with a lot of faith in it and in the strike zone,” added Boone. “He knows he can go in the strike zone with both of those pitches if he executes. He doesn’t have to run from contact. Those 2 pitches really play for him. I think I’ve seen the development of those 2 pitches and the confidence, and knowing how to use them, outing after outing now.”

NY improves to 47-34 and increase their lead in the AL East to 1.5 games over Tampa, which lost. NY is at the midway point in the season, on a 94-win pace. The Homeless A’s drop to 33-51.

1. Warren Off the Ropes

After getting off the ropes in the 1st (described above), then going right back to the mound after the Yankee offense went out 1-2-3 on 12 pitches in the bottom of the 1st, Warren got a 1-2-3 inning himself in the top of the 2nd — with 2 strikeouts.

Warren had struck out 3 in the 1st — so got 5 of the first 6 outs on strikeouts. He then started inducing ground outs and easy fly outs — pitching:

  • A shutout 3rd (allowing a 2-out single),
  • A 1-2-3 inning in the 4th (ground out, line out, fly out), and then
  • Working around a leadoff double and walk in the 5th to get a strikeout, fly out, and ground out to end the inning.

Warren’s line: 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 7 K’s, 4 walks in 100 pitches thrown. He wins to go 5-4 4.37.

Boone added that Warren has improved at “Controlling the moments, slowing the game down — that’s really important at this level for any athlete in any sport — you have to be able to slow things down when there’s some adversity going on around you.”

2. Chisholm HR

The A’s started 27-year-old, 6’2 righty Mitch Spence who came in with a 2-2 3.84 slash line.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. got him in the 2nd with a 377-ft homer to right off a 91-MPH cutter for a 1-0 Yankee lead.

“I definitely knew it was gone as soon as I hit it,” said Chisholm afterwards. “It was exactly what I was looking for. Against a guy like that, all his pitches move toward me, so I was just looking for something over the plate to get ahold of.”

3. Bellinger RBI Single

Anthony Volpe led off the 3rd with a walk, moved to 2nd on a ground out, stayed put as Trent Grisham struck out, but with 2 outs the A’s intentionally walked Aaron Judge to get to Cody Bellinger, and Bellinger ripped an RBI single to center for a 2-0 Yankee lead.

4. LeMahieu RBI Single

With 1 out in the 4th, Paul Goldschmidt reached on catcher’s interference, and then Mitch Spence walked Ben Rice and Anthony Volpe to load the bases.

DJ LeMahieu hit a liner that Spence tried to barehand but couldn’t — LeMahieu reaching on an RBI infield hit. NY 3 A’s 0.

5. Hill Shutout Inning

And that was it for the offense — and that was all the Yankees needed.

Tim Hill got in and out of trouble in the 6th — a leadoff single by Kurtz and error by Chisholm at 3rd put runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out.

But Hill got Gio Urshela to hit into a double play, and struck out JJ Bleday to end the inning.

6. Fernando Shutout Inning

Fernando Cruz pitched the 7th — using his splitter to get a 1-2-3 inning with 1 strikeout.

7. Weaver Shutout Inning

Luke Weaver looked Sharp in the 8th — a 1-2-3 inning — pop out, ground out, strike out.

8. Devin Shutout Inning

And with NY still nursing the 3-0 lead, Devin Williams pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the 9th — strikeout, ground out, and pop out for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401696127

 

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