The New York Yankees had a chance to sweep the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday night. They had the series win already locked up after two tight games. But Will Warren made that sweep feel like a distant memory after just three innings.
Warren lasted exactly that long before the Phillies chased him from the mound. The final score was 11-4 and it wasn’t really that close. Warren gave up six hits and six runs while striking out five. He didn’t mince words afterward.
“Pretty (crappy) overall,” Warren told Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
That about sums it up. The Yankees had won Game 1 by a score of 1-0 and Game 2 by 3-1. The pitching had been sharp all weekend. Then Warren took the ball and the Phillies immediately flipped the script. Philadelphia’s lineup jumped on him early and never let up.
What went wrong for Warren and the Yankees
Warren is in his third big league season and he’s carved out a bigger role in the bullpen this year. The Yankees need him to be reliable down the stretch as they push for a playoff spot in the American League. Sunday night was not that.
The Phillies bullpen did its job too, holding New York to just eight hits and three RBI across 36 at-bats. So it wasn’t like the Yankees were going to mount a comeback anyway. They just got beat in every phase.
New York dropped to 59-46 with the loss. They still sit second in the AL East, ahead of both Boston and Baltimore. Tampa Bay leads the division. The margin for error isn’t huge and games like this one sting a little more because the series was already won.
The Yankees now head to Chicago to face the White Sox. Game 1 is set for July 27 at 7:40 p.m. ET. They’ll try to shake off this ugly loss and get back to the kind of baseball that had them in control against the Phillies for two games. Warren will have to wait for his next chance to bounce back.
For now, he’s not making excuses. He called it what it was.
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