PHILADELPHIA — The Yankees were routed by the Phillies on Sunday night at Citizens Bank Park, a lopsided finish that snapped their three-game winning streak.
Will Warren dug an early hole. Ryan Yarbrough buried the comeback. Between them, the two pitchers accounted for all of Philadelphia’s runs.
Still, the night’s defining images did not come only from the mound. They came from Trent Grisham, who could not stop the bleeding at either end.
His fingerprints were on the start of the damage and on a rally that died too soon.
Grisham’s misread puts Yankees behind immediately
The Yankees lost 11-4, and Trent Grisham’s rough evening framed almost everything that went wrong. He went hitless in four at-bats and left four runners on base, and his night in the field started poorly.
Trea Turner opened the bottom of the first by driving a Warren pitch into the right-center gap. Grisham gave chase but could not cut the ball off, and it rolled to the wall for a leadoff triple. Kyle Schwarber‘s sacrifice fly brought Turner home before Warren recorded an out.
That run put Philadelphia ahead 1-0, a lead it never surrendered. Bryson Stott added a solo homer in the second, and the third inning fell apart entirely.
Warren retired the first two hitters in the third, then unraveled. Alec Bohm cleared the bases with a double, and Stott followed with an RBI single to make it 6-0. Warren was charged with six earned runs on six hits over three innings before he was pulled.
The opening triple was not the hardest ball Warren allowed. It simply put the Yankees behind before they could settle in, which mattered more than usual for a lineup missing its biggest bats.
Grisham stalls the Yankees’ rally
The Yankees showed life in the fifth against Phillies ace Cristopher Sanchez. Ali Sanchez scored on a pickoff throwing error, Jasson Dominguez drove in a run and Anthony Volpe doubled home another. The three-run burst cut the deficit to 6-3.
The inning set up the game’s quiet turning point. With Volpe in scoring position and two outs, Grisham came to the plate representing the tying run’s on-deck stakes and a chance to keep the pressure on.
He could not deliver. The rally ended there, and the Yankees carried a three-run deficit into the sixth. Sanchez needed only 10 pitches to breeze through his next inning, momentum restored.
Grisham finished without a hit, a walk or an RBI. The four runners he stranded stood out in a lineup that repeatedly failed to cash in. As a team, the Yankees went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
He was not alone in coming up empty. Dominguez went hitless in five at-bats, and Jose Caballero finished 0-for-4. The depleted Yankees order could not string together enough against Philadelphia’s pitching.
A bullpen collapse erases the last hope
Any chance of a Yankees comeback vanished in the sixth. Yarbrough allowed a string of soft hits to start the inning, then hit Bohm with the bases loaded before Stott cleared them with a three-run double.
Philadelphia scored five times in the frame and turned a competitive 6-3 game into an 11-3 blowout. Yarbrough was charged with five earned runs over his three innings of relief.
Stott finished 3-for-4 with a homer and five RBIs, and Bohm drove in four. The pair combined for nine of Philadelphia’s 11 RBIs. Ben Rice provided the lone late answer for New York, launching his 31st home run in the seventh, a total behind only Yordan Alvarez and Schwarber in the majors.
Manager Aaron Boone summed up the night without singling anyone out, though the words applied to the missed chances as much as the pitching.
“We gave ourselves some opportunities, but ultimately we just didn’t play well enough tonight,” Boone said.
A thin roster feels every mistake
The defeat stung more because of who was not in the lineup. The Yankees were without Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, and they had placed Cody Bellinger on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring before first pitch.
With that much firepower missing, the margin for error is thin, and Sunday exposed it. A ball that gets to the wall, a rally that stalls with two outs, a reliever who cannot find the zone, each mistake turned quickly into Philadelphia runs.
The Yankees still left Philadelphia with a series win, having taken the first two games by a combined 4-1. The finale, though, dropped them to 59-46 and three games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.
New York now heads to Chicago for a week against the White Sox and Cubs that leads into the Aug. 3 trade deadline. The Yankees need their healthy veterans to steady things, and on Sunday one of them endured the kind of night a short-handed team can least afford.
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