Aaron Judge struck out his first 4 times up, then grounded out to go 0-5.
But everyone else did great and the Yankees beat the Giants 7-0 on the season’s opening day on a beautiful, clear, dry, 60-degree, late March Wednesday night in San Francisco.
Max Fried pitched 6.1 shutout innings allowing 2 hits — he now leads the Majors in wins and ERA.
The Yankee bullpen of Jake Bird, Brent Headrick, and Camilo Doval pitched shutout ball. The Yankee pen has the lowest ERA in baseball.
And everyone in the Yankee lineup besides Judge got a hit. Giancarlo Stanton and Austin Wells got 2 hits. Austin Wells went 2-3 — he now leads the Majors in batting average at .667. Stanton went 2-4 so he is 2nd with a .500 average.
The Yankees lead the league in hits with 10.
Logan Webb started for the Giants and got ripped for 7 runs (6 earned) on 9 hits in 5 innings. He leads the Majors in all kinds of dubious categories.
“They did a good job, and I did a bad job,” said Logan Webb afterwards. “First inning was great; 2nd inning I got the guy to ground out on the first pitch of the inning, and then just all hell broke loose.”
The Yanks are now 1-0, leading the Majors in winning percentage. The Giants are dead last at 0-1.
1. Yanks Score 5 Runs in 2nd
It all started out so well for Logan Webb. He pitched a 1-2-3 shutout 1st inning, striking out Trent Grisham and Aaron Judge as the first 2 batters of the game and the season.
Then Webb got Ben Rice to ground out on 1 pitch to start the 2nd. But Giancarlo Stanton singled with 1 out, Webb hit Jazz Chisholm Jr. with a pitch, and Jose Caballero singled in Stanton for a 1-0 Yankee lead.
Ryan McMahon then singled in Jazz and Caballero for a 3-0 Yankee lead.
McMahon up the middle to plate 2 ? pic.twitter.com/XXumeky4aZ
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 26, 2026
Austin Wells singled to center, putting runners on 1st and 2nd — and Trent Grisham drove them both in with a triple to right. Yankees 5 Giants 0.
T-rent & the T stands for Triple ? pic.twitter.com/jEh8p0NP4f
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 26, 2026
Logan then struck out Judge and Cody Bellinger to end the bloodshed.
2. Yanks Make It 7-0 in 5th
And Webb blew thru the 3rd inning — a 1-2-3 inning with a strikeout of Ben Rice — so it looked like the 2nd inning was a momentary lapse for him.
Webb allowed a walk and single in the 4th but got out of the jam by getting Grisham to fly to center and striking out Judge, again.
But his final unraveling came in the 5th — a leadoff single by Cody Bellinger, single by Ben Rice, and RBI single by Giancarlo Stanton made it 6-0 NY.
Big G. 114.4 mph. Classic. @Giancarlo818 ? pic.twitter.com/ObRBrMWpII
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 26, 2026
A fielder’s choice RBI groundout by Chisholm made it 7-0.
3. Fried Cruises
Meanwhile Max Fried got out of a little trouble in the 1st — a leadoff walk to Arraez and 1-out single by Rafael Devers — before a strikeout of Willy Adames and groundout of Jung Hoo Lee to end the inning.
Fried then proceeded to blow thru the Giants’ lineup, retiring 15 of the next 17 batters, pitching shutout ball into the 7th. He got the first batter of the 7th and left with the 1-0 lead.
Max back at it. #RepBX pic.twitter.com/iP2tiCqGgM
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) March 26, 2026
4. Bullpen Spotless
Bird came and and got both batters he faced in the 7th, then Brent Headrick pitched a shutout 8th — allowing a 2-out single and walk, but getting Devers to end the inning.
Camilo Doval pitched a shutout 9th — getting 3 straight outs after an error by Jose Caballero to start the inning — for the old ballgame.
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