Daily Report – 6/23/25
Here is today’s report:
Yankees
Yesterday morning, the Yankees followed Clarke Schmidt’s seven no-hit innings with a 4-2 eighth-inning comeback win over the Baltimore Orioles. The win marked the Yankees’ first series victory in nearly two weeks.
After a win on Thursday to escape a six-game losing streak, the Yankees won consecutive games on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, they scored nine runs with four home runs while Clarke Schmidt didn’t allow a hit across seven innings. His pitch count reached a career-high 103 pitches after the seventh inning, so Aaron Boone pulled him. JT Brubaker allowed Baltimore’s only hit of the game.
It would have been nice to see Schmidt attempt a no-hitter, but analytics suggest that for a young starter coming off an injury, he might become more susceptible to injury if kept in the game for more than 100 pitches. Schmidt agreed with Aaron Boone’s decision to remove him after the seventh inning, saying, “Obviously, I want to go as deep as I can, but when you’re at the 103-[pitch] mark and you have two more innings to go and you have 80 more pitches to go, you got to think bigger picture.”
“He was done,” said Boone. “As great as he was today, I think physically, all day was a challenge for him. I kind of knew even after the fifth [inning] that it wasn’t going to be long.” As upset as Yankees fans were by Boone’s decision, he was right to prioritize Schmidt’s health over a chance at history.
“I’m sitting there wanting to watch a little history, too,” said Boone. “But the player and the long game is the most important thing.”
Another key to Saturday’s win was Anthony Volpe breaking out of a long, dreadful slump. On Friday, I met his father and told him I appreciated watching his son’s Major League journey. Since then, Volpe has recorded a .375 batting average with one RBI, one walk, and one home run, his ninth of the season. His walk came off the bench in yesterday’s 4-2 comeback win against the Orioles.
Before yesterday, the Yankees were 1-for-22 in games when trailing after seven innings. Jazz Chisholm Jr. was the Yankees’ sparkplug yesterday, batting 2-for-4 with two doubles. Will Warren had a shaky start to his morning, surrendering two runs in the first inning, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. cut the deficit in half in the second inning. With two outs, he doubled to right field, and DJ LeMahieu pulled a base hit to left. Chisholm rounded third, lost a shoe, and 80 feet down the line, ran into Baltimore’s catcher Maverick Handley and lost his other shoe!
“He ran right out of his shoes,” said Aaron Boone. “It doesn’t surprise me.” Chisholm slid home safely to cut his team’s deficit in half, and when he got to the dugout, he wiggled his dirty sock-covered toes in front of Roku’s cameras. “I think it’s because I was so sweaty, my socks were wet, everything,” Chisholm joked. “It just slipped straight out. I’ve never had that happen before; I’ve run out of one [shoe], but not both.”
In the eighth inning, the Yankees had runners at first and second with one out for Chisholm, and with a 3-0 count, he drilled a fastball off the divot in the right-field wall. As Chisholm sprinted to second base and reached third, Ben Rice and pinch-runner Paul Goldschmidt made it home. The 37-year-old Goldschmidt was pinch-running for the first time in his career, and he represented the Yankees’ go-ahead run as Luis Rojas aggressively rushed him home on Chisholm’s double.
“I didn’t know where the ball was,” said Goldschmidt. “I was just looking at Luis [Rojas] over there, just trying to run as fast as I could.”
DJ LeMahieu then reached first base on a missed catch error by former Yankees catcher Gary Sánchez, allowing Chisholm to score. He collided with Sánchez and nearly forgot to touch home plate, but he kept both shoes on. “Today, we were calling [Chisholm] Barry Sanders with the collisions at the plate,” said Will Warren, who allowed two runs in the first inning, but silenced Baltimore’s order through the next 5 1/3. “He’s so toolsy – he’s got the speed, he can hit, he can field, he can do it all.”
Last year, Will Warren occasionally found himself getting called up from the minors, but nearly every time he pitched, he succumbed to the New York pressure. Entering this season, reports were released claiming many teams called the Yankees about acquiring Will Warren, but once Luis Gil and Gerrit Cole went down, Warren’s role on the Yankees became critical. Now, he’s flashing brilliant sweepers and an evolved pitch mix that yields a sky-high strikeout rate, and the Yankees have won seven of his last nine starts. Warren has the stuff to be a great pitcher, but he must maintain the confidence and technique needed to succeed for the rest of the season.
Fernando Cruz played hero for the Yankees yesterday as well, inheriting two runners in the top of the eighth inning from Tim Hill and striking out the next three batters with his signature splitter. When Cruz can locate this pitch, it can fool anyone who swings at it.
Tonight, at 7:10, the Yankees head to Cincinnati to clash with the Reds (YES). With Ryan Yarbrough’s trip to the 15-day injured list (low-grade right oblique strain), RHP Alan Winans (0-0, -.-- ERA) will start for the Yankees against the lefty Nick Lodolo (5-5, 3.71 ERA).
Here is tonight’s starting lineup for the New York Yankees:
1. 1B Paul Goldschmidt (R)
2. CF Cody Bellinger (L)
3. RF Aaron Judge (C) (R)
4. DH Giancarlo Stanton (R)
5. 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L)
6. SS Anthony Volpe (R)
7. C Austin Wells (L)
8. 2B DJ LeMahieu (R)
9. LF Jasson Domínguez (S)
P: RHP Alan Winans (0-0, -.-- ERA)
Schedule
7:10 PM: NYY at CIN; YES; SP: RHP Alan Winans (0-0, -.-- ERA)
