Marcus Stroman implodes as Yankees get blown out in rain-shortened loss to Giants

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.By the time Marcus Stroman recorded his first out, he had thrown 33 pitches, allowed five runs, had just faced his seventh batter of the night and had been loudly jeered on three different occasions. The game was just about over and Stroman’s outing would soon be over, boos raining down and rain raining down on a miserable evening on which the paid attendance of 35,286 probably should have stayed home. Stroman did not survive the first inning of a game that started late and ended early, a 9-1 beatdown at the Giants’ hands on Friday in The Bronx that was called in the sixth inning.

A driving rain delayed the start, complicated the innings that were played and prompted the game to end with the bases loaded, the Yankees’ pitchers unable to get a grip. The brutal showing from Stroman — who recorded two outs while allowing five runs on four hits and three walks in 46 pitches — hurt the Yankees for at least one game and potentially more: They began a run of 13 games in 13 days with a worst-case scenario in which they had to ask for a heavy load from their bullpen.Ryan Yarbrough, Ian Hamilton, Tim Hill and Yoendrys Gómez covered five innings in which they often seemed to struggle for a feel of the ball.

The Yankees were fortunate that the game was called, the result already settled and the rain saving the club’s relievers from needing to cover 10 more outs. Everything that followed the 22-minute top of the first was elementary.The damage against Stroman: a first-pitch double from Mike Yastrzemski; a walk to Willy Adames; a home run from Jung Hoo Lee; a walk to Matt Chapman; a walk to Heliot Ramos; a double from LaMonte Wade Jr.; a strikeout of Wilmer Flores; a flyout from Patrick Bailey; and a single to Tyler Fitzgerald, which brought manager Aaron Boone to the mound to pull Stroman, who in the driving rain was bo...