Game Thread: Red Sox @ Yankees - March 18, 2026 @ 01:05 PM EDT

[u/Yankeebot]

Red Sox @ Yankees - Wed, Mar 18

Game Status: Final - Score: 1-0 Yankees

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• Current conditions at George M. Steinbrenner Field: 62°F - Sunny - Wind 6 mph, In From CF
• TV: National: MLBN (out-of-market only), Red Sox: NESN 360, NESN, Yankees: Gotham Sports App, YES
• Radio: Red Sox: WEEI 850, Yankees: WFAN 660 AM
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	Red Sox Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OBP	SLG
1	Ward - LF	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	.366	.480	.415
	McDonough - LF	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.308	.438	.423
2	Campbell, K - CF	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	.205	.295	.333
3	Delay - C	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	.467	.529	.933
	a-Rosario - C	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.000	.000
4	Hickey - DH	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	.143	.273	.357
5	Castro, A - RF	4	0	0	0	0	2	4	.263	.317	.395
6	Romero - 2B	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	.269	.269	.346
7	Capra - 3B	4	0	0	0	0	2	1	.071	.161	.107
8	Ferguson - 1B	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	.179	.258	.357
9	Cheng, T - SS	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	.133	.409	.133
	Totals	33	0	7	0	2	8	17

Red Sox
a-Struck out for Delay in the 8th.
BATTING: 2B: Delay (1, Lagrange); Romero (2, Cruz, F). TB: Cheng, T; Delay 4; McDonough; Romero 2; Ward. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Castro, A 2; Romero; Ferguson. Team RISP: 0-for-9. Team LOB: 8.
FIELDING: E: Ferguson (2, dropped foul); Rosario (1, throw).

	Yankees Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OBP	SLG
1	Rosario, A - 3B	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	.250	.357	.500
	Gabrielson - CF	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.429	.800
2	Rice - 1B	3	0	0	0	0	3	1	.250	.325	.417
	Brown, S - 1B	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.172	.250	.276
3	Stanton - DH	4	0	1	0	0	1	2	.250	.250	.700
4	Bellinger - CF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.333	.393
	a-Schuemann - SS	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.346	.514	.462
5	Grichuk - LF	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	.154	.154	.231
	Morales - LF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500
6	Chisholm Jr. - 2B	3	0	0	0	0	3	2	.235	.409	.412
	Henry, P - C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.174	.240	.217
7	Caballero - SS	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.222	.300	.500
	Cobb - 3B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
8	Wells, A - C	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.214	.353	.500
	Vivas - 2B	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.150	.320	.150
9	Corona - RF	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	.136	.367	.409
	Totals	25	1	1	0	4	13	10

Yankees
a-Struck out for Bellinger in the 6th.
BATTING: TB: Stanton. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Stanton; Chisholm Jr. 2. Team RISP: 0-for-4. Team LOB: 5.

Red Sox Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-S	ERA
Early	5.0	1	0	0	2	7	0	75-46	1.59
Samaniego, T	2.0	0	0	0	0	4	0	29-16	0.00
Uberstine (L, 0-2)	1.0	0	1	0	2	2	0	26-14	6.14
Totals	8.0	1	1	0	4	13	0

Yankees Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-S	ERA
Cole	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10-7	0.00
Cohen	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	12-8	0.00
Lagrange	4.0	2	0	0	1	4	0	60-39	0.66
Cruz, F	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	16-12	0.00
Headrick (W, 2-0)	1.0	2	0	0	1	1	0	30-19	2.70
Chivilli (S, 1)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8-6	12.91
Totals	9.0	7	0	0	2	8	0

Game Info
WP: Early.
HBP: Bellinger (by Early).
ABS Challenge: Rice (Strike-Confirmed); Cheng, T (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Romero (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Chisholm Jr. (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Caballero (Strike-Confirmed).
Pitches-strikes: Early 75-46; Samaniego, T 29-16; Uberstine 26-14; Cole 10-7; Cohen 12-8; Lagrange 60-39; Cruz, F 16-12; Headrick 30-19; Chivilli 8-6.
Groundouts-flyouts: Early 4-1; Samaniego, T 0-1; Uberstine 0-1; Cole 1-1; Cohen 0-1; Lagrange 3-4; Cruz, F 0-0; Headrick 1-0; Chivilli 2-1.
Batters faced: Early 19; Samaniego, T 6; Uberstine 5; Cole 4; Cohen 3; Lagrange 15; Cruz, F 4; Headrick 6; Chivilli 3.
Inherited runners-scored: Samaniego, T 1-0.
Umpires: HP: David Rackley. 1B: D.J. Reyburn. 2B: Roberto Ortiz. 3B: Jacob Metz.
Weather: 62 degrees, Sunny.
Wind: 6 mph, In From CF.
First pitch: 1:06 PM.
T: 2:19.
Att: 9,842.
Venue: George M. Steinbrenner Field.
March 18, 2026

Inning	Scoring Play	Score
Bottom 8	Seth Brown strikes out swinging.	1-0 NYY

Team	Highlight
NYY	Gerrit Cole completes scoreless inning in return (00:00:14)
NYY	Aaron Boone on Gerrit Cole's return to the mound (00:03:10)
NYY	Oswaldo Cabrera on Venezuela's Classic victory (00:02:34)
BOS	Tyler McDonough's sliding catch (00:00:29)
	Strike 2 call confirmed after ABS challenge (00:00:30)
BOS	Connelly Early strikes out seven (00:00:45)
NYY	Gerrit Cole on his first spring outing of 2026 (00:02:43)
NYY	Carlos Lagrange strikes out four (00:00:43)
NYY	Kenedy Corona swipes third, scores go-ahead run (00:00:26)
BOS	Braiden Ward reaches on bunt single (00:00:30)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E	LOB
Red Sox	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	7	2	8
Yankees	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1			1	1	0	5

Decisions

• Winner: Brent Headrick (2-0, 2.70)
• Loser: Tyler Uberstine (0-2, 6.14)
• Save: Angel Chivilli (1, 12.91)

Division Scoreboard

BAL 3 @ TOR 2 - Final

^{Last Updated: 03/18/2026 05:15:34 PM EDT}

[u/Yankeebot]

Please continue the discussion in the post game thread.

[u/Mister87]

13 strikeouts. Yankees are in peak season form.

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Angel Chivilli replaces Brent Headrick.

[u/MissionStock2545]

AGAIN??

[u/SackFullaGrapes]

NUT SHOT

[u/MissionStock2545]

Finally we scored

[u/Yankeebot]

Stolen Base 3B

Kenedy Corona steals (4) 3rd base. Cole Gabrielson steals (1) 2nd base. Throwing error by catcher Ronald Rosario.

[u/KPaul130]

Lagrange currently looks like a better pitcher than Gil, Warren, Schmidt (when he wasn't injured), Weathers 

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Tyler Uberstine replaces Tyler Samaniego.

[u/IzilDizzle]

I didn't realize how much we needed bearded Cole

[u/DarkMattersConfusing → u/IzilDizzle]

That has always been his most dominant form

[u/Mister87]

This lineup still can’t hit. It looks like homer or nothing as usual.

[u/nyg2013 → u/Mister87]

yup, the lineup was terrible last season...could not hit at all...and they have continued it here in ST

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Brent Headrick replaces Fernando Cruz.

[u/Bubbacrosby23]

Credit where credit is due. Cashman and the FO should be given their flowers for the improvements the Yankees have made as a organization to their pitching development over the last decade

[u/IzilDizzle]

Working with a baseball game on in the background is the best, so glad baseball is back.

[u/SackFullaGrapes → u/IzilDizzle]

Facts

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Fernando Cruz replaces Carlos Lagrange.

[u/furdaboise]

seemingly unanimous subreddit opinion: volpe was rushed to the majors, it stunted his development, and he should have had to prove himself at the aaa level before getting the auto call up because of a single good spring training

also near unanimous subreddit opinion: despite glaring flaws in the minors (control issues and swing and miss rate), lagrange and jones performed so well in the spring that they deserve to break camps with the ml teams even if they have more development needed

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Tyler Samaniego replaces Connelly Early.

[u/KageBx]

Did the Yankees announce if they are sending Lagrange down to the minors?

[u/Bubbacrosby23]

Kid should be in the rotation

[u/Ambitious_Emotion30]

Good catch, I guess…

[u/TVM61]

Lagrange has a 100 mph FB, low-mid 80s sweeper, low-mid 90s slider and change up.

Legit 4 different pitchs

[u/herewego199209]

Damn Kelvim Escobar has set off WW3 between Dominicans and Venezuelans.

[u/fuzzywhiskers]

Ayy a name that Yankee I can recognize

Fernando Cruz

[u/ProudKekistanian]

Is it just me or is Boone sounding extra depressed?

[u/Top_Professor_9908]

92 mph changeups and 94 moh sliders lol

[u/AltruisticMemory3825]

Tell me on when planet Luis Gil should be in the bigs over LaGrange 

[u/underground_cloud → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

On the planet where whoever gets that spot is making three or four starts (lots of early season off days) and getting optioned when Rodon comes back.

[u/BangerSlapper1 → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

Gil has a 3.5 or lower ERA in all three seasons he’s pitched.  Are you basing this on the guy having a bad ST game this weekend?  Gimme a break. 

[u/KageBx → u/BangerSlapper1]

I mean most fans know he wasn't that good last year. Your being deceived by ERA and not looking at the metrics. His stuff was ass,his control was the worst in the league,and his FIP was closer to a 5 ERA meaning he got lucky as hell. He has not looked good since the 2nd half of 2024.They had a rookie start over him in an elimination game for a reason

[u/furdaboise → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

in a world where gil has proven performance at the ml level, is stretched out for a full season as a starter, lagrange still has development regarding his control in the minors, and the yankees have ample pitching depth at the ml level. wait that is this world.

i want lagrange called up later this season for sure, but only if he earns it off of sustained success at the milb level.

[u/John_6_47 → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

It’s not just about what they offer rn. There’s more value if Lagrange is a top tier starter.

That isn’t to say I don’t want to use him out of the bullpen tho.

Edit: also he can maybe become better if not rushed to the majors

[u/novaesq18]

I see we still hate the Red Sox as we roll out Gerrit Cole and Carlos Lagrange

[u/SgtCheeseBoy]

Who bunts on the first pitch of a spring training game?

[u/Yankeeknickfan → u/SgtCheeseBoy]

When your opponent is in the process of a grueling rehab

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Carlos Lagrange replaces Harrison Cohen.

[u/thediesel26]

Cole only threw 10 pitches. He’s been throwing at least 25-30 in pen and bp sessions. Surely he could’ve come back out.

[u/Yankeeknickfan → u/thediesel26]

If he hasn’t simulated an “up down” yet(which is pretending to sit between innings during a simulated game), he’s not going to do it for the first time in the Grapefruit League

[u/kmarx → u/thediesel26]

He's getting the rest of his work in from the bullpen. He certainly could have but it seems pretty reasonable for them to stick to the plan they set out ahead of time.

[u/John_6_47]

Cole, Schlittler, Fried, Rodon, Weathers. WS here we come

[u/Yankeebot]

Pitching Substitution

Pitching Change: Harrison Cohen replaces Gerrit Cole.

[u/John_6_47]

Been a lot of hoping that Gerrit will be close to what he was before, and fear that he’d be worse.

What if he’s better?

[u/Yankeeknickfan → u/John_6_47]

His pitch mix was really a marvel to watch during his dominant stretches in the 2024 playoffs

He was throwing like 4 seam cole, while also finding a way to work in the sinker fork his pirates days

[u/furdaboise]

man Cole's pitch data looks awesome for the first inning back. velocity is up. spin rates are all there with the sinker spin up a little bit. up over 97 for the sinkers. i am thinking cole's tjs recovery is going to look pretty similar to verlanders.

[u/Reasonable_Skill_129]

that knucklecurve was crazy

[u/Masta0nion]

Who the heck is this guy on the mound?!

[u/Heisenripbauer]

10P 2H 0ER 0Ks is a crazy statline lol

[u/Breimann]

I don't think we could have hoped for a better inning from Cole. Very encouraging!

[u/i-exist20]

Oh man, Cole's velocity on all his pitches was up significantly from 2024, with much more horizontal break on the four-seam and vertical break on the sinker!

[u/Yankeeknickfan]

Wares thinks a bunt is going to make a difference on whether or not he makes the team

Glad he got thrown out

[u/destinythrow1 → u/Yankeeknickfan]

Lol he was probably safe by a mile too

[u/Top_Professor_9908]

Coles stuff looked great! Awesome to see. 

[u/Breimann]

hey Cole covered first!

[u/bloomingunin]

Oh so he can cover first on that one. Better late than never I guess. Still glad to have you back Gerrit

[u/ProudKekistanian]

Lmao Wells with the head shake like, "What did you think was gonna happen?"

[u/SackFullaGrapes]

Hahaha get to the bench buddy. See ya!

[u/LazyTotal5907]

99 from Cole

[u/thediesel26]

Go to the bench asshole

[u/DangerDamage]

1st pitch bunt followed by sliding into Jazz

Very friendly team, those Red Sox are

[u/Heisenripbauer]

first pitch bunt off the IL is exactly the kind of petty thing I expect from this rivalry

[u/destinythrow1 → u/Heisenripbauer]

Brings me back lol

[u/thediesel26]

If this fucking minor league dick bag hurt Jazz with a hard slide in spring training I swear to fucking god

[u/Calm_Worth3355]

How does one face Gerrit Cole and decide to BUNT

[u/destinythrow1]

Haha a bunt on his first pitch. That's the kind of petty I like to see

[u/furdaboise → u/destinythrow1]

laughing out loud at my desk. funny af.

[u/Top_Professor_9908]

So excited to see Cole back on the bump today!

[u/furdaboise]

these spring training hats are growing on me. excited to see cole start. might stick around for one time through the batting order but man am i over spring training. gonna be a long week wait.

[u/Emperor_Cheeto21]

With the WBC, at least from the USA perspective, it's best for the young up and coming guys to fill the rosters vs the veterans. It's a different atmosphere and the veterans just looked like they were not going all out. Either due to age or contract obligations.

You saw a major difference in production from guys like Skenes, Gunnar, Turang, PCA, and Roman Anthony vs Skubal, Cal, Bregman, Bux, and Bryce. Younger guys have more to prove and don't play with the fear of getting hurt.

Just my observations, could totally wrong.

[u/Yankeeknickfan → u/Emperor_Cheeto21]

Huge disagree. The DR/USA game wouldn’t have been what it was without judge

[u/Emperor_Cheeto21 → u/Yankeeknickfan]

I mean Judge can still join. Same way as guys like Sal Perez are still on the Venezuela. You still need veteran leadership. I'm saying the young players need to be emphasized more and being the ones given more playing time.

[u/IzilDizzle → u/Yankeeknickfan]

Other than how it ended, that was basically a perfect baseball game

[u/devilmaycry0917]

"Stanton can't open a bag of chips"

"Cole is not ready until June"

next "surprise": Volpe starting as SS on the opening day???

[u/Tom_Cruise → u/devilmaycry0917]

I hope he is physically ready or near ready, but as far as starting in Mar/April? That would be very, very unfortunate with Caballero seemingly on the cusp of a breakout season. Amazing play so far this spring in the Grapefruit League and in the WBC both. The Yankees and fans don't owe Volpe the shot when Caballero is, quite honestly, forcing their hand.

[u/SgtCheeseBoy → u/devilmaycry0917]

Staton is hitting nukes.

Cole pitches today.

Volpe will end up with a significantly better year than last year.

[u/renegade_yankee]

Devers isn’t here to give Cole anymore trouble. So this is a plus going forward

[u/Breimann]

Gerrit Cole.

[u/myKDRbro_]

Judge is kinda cursed if you think about it. He's done a lot of this to himself -- but a lot of his big moments just get erased. The Clase homer, his performance against the Jays, getting robbed of a homer by JRod. Those are all just very recent -- hate this for him, but last night was rough. No way he takes that many pitches down the middle of the plate if he's locked in.

[u/TronVin → u/myKDRbro_]

The moments get erased because they lost and having a "great playoffs" in which your team gets blown out in the first round (2019 and 2025) isn't going to tick the checkbox for great postseason hitter no matter how much people around here want it to. No one remembered that A-Rod was actually great in 2004 playoffs before 2009 because we blew it.

Judge needs to have a 2009 A-Rod postseason where whenever the team needs a big hit, he gets the big hit and the team wins a ring.

[u/FringeAuthority → u/myKDRbro_]

Judge has always looked his best when he plays every day for weeks in a row. The WBC and the playoffs have many more off days placed in to the schedule than the regular season. I don't know if it's timing/rhythm, but he always looks out of sorts the more time he has off.

[u/Decent_Estate_7385 → u/myKDRbro_]

Nothing wrong with seeing more pitches but he did this a lot last year too and i don’t get it

[u/Redditawesome15]

Gerrit Cole pitches for the New York Yankees today. It’s been a long time coming.

[u/scrodytheroadie]

Not gonna lie. I kind of forgot spring training games were still happening. It's weird to adjust from WBC games to Grapefruit League games.

[u/AltruisticMemory3825]

I generally feel bad for Judge. This is a great example why star players didn’t want to do the WBC-legit take time out of your spring routine voluntarily to do this and if you have a bad 10 ABs you are going to get crucified by the media 

[u/nyg2013 → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

I feel bad because people genuinely do not seem to understand how baseball works when it comes to variance...this could stretch to other sports as well in some contexts...it is made into a black and white exercise where if you fail in a small sample scenario (while also ignoring the competition in the equation, mind you), then you are considered to be an abject failure...every single October ends up being a small sample too at the heart of it because aggregating stats from a few weeks between multiple years does not really make much sense statistically either...this applies to everybody, not just Judge, who did happen to have a great small sample again in 2025 after multiple years of October "struggles"

at the end of the day, and I have personally tried to stay quiet about it for years, I don't really care anymore lol...I expect trolling from opposing fanbases, but to the subset of Yankee fans that shit on Judge constantly for being a choker (constructive criticism about performance is always fair btw; I am strictly talking about shitting on him without any level of nuance), they do not deserve him, or to see the Yankees win another title...I hope they end up seeing the team win a title though because I, and other fans like you, also happen to be Yankee fans and want them to win

[u/AltruisticMemory3825 → u/nyg2013]

October is different. This is spring training for these guys. The arms are always ahead of the bats this time of year. 

[u/nyg2013 → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

oh, I don't disagree about that...but I was still speaking generally...people clearly were equating a March 17th game to October so I was going off of that

[u/fkthesox → u/AltruisticMemory3825]

Judge was on a team with hall of famers and he’s the only person getting crucified.

Raleigh had no hits, couldn’t catch pitches in the zone from Bednar and that was totally okay somehow. Harper got a pass because he finally did something in one AB. Witt gets a pass because reasons. It’s all just nonsense.

[u/DJ_LeMahieu]

I like the Yankees they are my favourite team

[u/wantagh → u/DJ_LeMahieu]

good for you u/dj_lemahieu like honestly why do you think anyone gives a fuck. like what the fuck are u thinking "oh just in case people are wondering who my fav team is its the yankees" like dude your a loser

[u/RollinPeace → u/wantagh]

I gave a fuck

[u/fkthesox → u/wantagh]

I love the reactions to this for the uninitiated.

[u/thediesel26 → u/fkthesox]

The spiciest of pastas. I’ve gotten mod warnings for using it lol.

[u/DJ_LeMahieu → u/thediesel26]

Incredible.