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. 

Marcus Stroman reacts as he exits the Yankees-Giants game on April 11, 2025. Bill Kostroun/New York Post

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 booed all the way to the dugout. 

Stroman could have an alibi for a game that began 26 minutes late because of a rain delay and was played in miserable conditions (a first-pitch temperature of 44 degrees, and it only got colder and rainier), and it is very much possible he could not get a grip.

Jung Hoo Lee (R.) celebrates after hitting a home run during the Giants-Yankees game on April 11, 2025. Bill Kostroun/New York Post

The Giants’ starter, Robbie Ray, only made it through four one-run innings in 98 pitches. 

Yet, the problems for a pitcher who owns an 11.57 ERA three starts into his season extend past one night.

Stroman was knocked around by the Brewers (three runs in 4 ²/₃ innings), knocked around in Pittsburgh (four runs in four innings) and noncompetitive against the Giants. 

Marcus Stroman pitches during the Yankees-Giants game on April 11, 2025. Robert Sabo for NY Post

Clarke Schmidt will rejoin the rotation the next turn through, and the belief has been he will kick out either Carlos Carrasco or Will Warren.

Stroman, on the books for about $18 million this year, is pitching as if he should not be safe. 

Speaking of not safe, several Giants batters had to leap away from Gómez pitches in the sixth, the Yankees’ righty clearly unsure where the ball was going in the elements.

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Gómez walked the bases loaded, struck out a pair and then issued a run-scoring fourth walk of the inning to Wade, which prompted a delay and then game-calling that the Yankees may have been lobbying for. 

The Yankees (7-6), who have lost four of five, would have needed a deluge from their offense and instead received a drizzle.

Their lone run came in the second, when Austin Wells’ deep drive to right ricocheted off the top of the wall and back onto the field for an RBI double.

Marcus Stroman is pulled during the Yankees-Giants game on April 11, 2025. Robert Sabo for NY Post

A one-out, two-on threat then was extinguished when Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt flew out. 

The Yankees’ offense finished with two hits and nine strikeouts.