Yankees' new additions implode as Marlins cap comeback with walk-off victory

MIAMI — In one of their most active trade deadlines in years, the Yankees added seven new faces to their roster, all of whom were in uniform Friday night for the start of a three-game series against the Marlins.

And in their first post-trade deadline game, four of them — relievers Jake Bird, David Bednar and Camilo Doval and utilityman Jose Caballero — singlehandedly helped sink their new team.

The three relievers allowed nine runs, nine hits and two walks in 2 1⁄3 innings and Caballero made a game-changing error in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Yankees suffered a brutal 13-12 loss to the Marlins after building 6-0, 9-4 and 12-10 leads.

“Not an ideal start by any means,” said Bednar, a two-time All-Star with the Pirates. He allowed the last two runs in a six-run seventh that gave the Marlins a 10-9 lead before Anthony Volpe tied it with a 421-foot homer in the eighth.

After Ben Rice singled in the top of the ninth, Caballero pinch ran for him and stole his MLB-leading 35th base. Ryan McMahon gave the Yankees an 11-10 lead with a two-out RBI single and scored on Volpe’s RBI double off the centerfield wall.   

But Doval allowed three runs and retired only one batter in the bottom of the ninth.

With two men on and one out, when Xavier Edwards scorched a single to rightfield, Caballero charged the ball and completely whiffed on it. That allowed a second run to score, tying it at 12, and allowed Edwards to reach third. “Definitely a routine kind of play there,” Caballero said through his interpreter. “You always want to execute on a play like that. I feel like I took my eyes away from the ball for a split-second.”

Agustin Ramirez then won it with a dribbler a few feet to the first-base side of the plate. Austin Wells grabbed the ball but had no play on Edwards, who sprinted home on contact.

“I felt really good out there,” Doval said through his interpreter. “I felt like I was throwing good pitches tonight. But unfortunately, it happens. You can execute and things just don’t work out.”

Little worked for the relievers in the late innings on a night when Aaron Boone intended to stay away from three bullpen stalwarts who have been overused this season — Luke Weaver, Tim Hill and Devin Williams.

But on a night in which the Yankees (60-50), who blew a chance to get within 2 ½ games of AL East-leading Toronto, had 15 hits and five stolen bases, that trio should have been able to enjoy the rest.

The Yankees got big offensive nights from Volpe (4-for-5, including homer No. 17, and three runs), Jasson Dominguez (3-for-4), Trent Grisham (2-for-4, including homer No. 19, a three-run shot that gave the Yankees a 9-4 lead in the seventh) and Giancarlo Stanton, whose three-run homer in the fourth produced a 3-0 lead.

Volpe has seven homers in the last 13 games. Stanton has five in his last nine games.

“The guys at the plate did a really good job,” said Bird, who came on in the seventh with a 9-4 lead but surrendered a grand slam to leftfield by Kyle Stowers over a leaping Dominguez that made it 9-8. “We just need to do our job, myself especially. That should be a game we win.”

Bednar replaced Bird and allowed Javier Sanoja’s second homer of the game to tie it at 9. After Jakob Marsee doubled, singles by Edwards and Ramirez gave Miami a 10-9 lead.

Though the bullpen took the blame, Carlos Rodon said he should shoulder much of it. After retiring the first eight he faced and taking a 6-0 lead into the fifth, he failed to get out of the inning. Rodon allowed only two hits and struck out nine but was charged with four runs — Jonathan Loaisiga allowed two inherited runners to score — and walked five in 4 2⁄3 innings.

“Offensively, we did plenty to win the game,” Rodon said. “It kind of starts with me and not getting through the fifth with a six-run lead. Just need to be better than that.”

Judge back next week. It appears Aaron Judge’s stay on the injured list won’t be a long one.

Before Friday night’s game, Boone said Judge (flexor strain in right elbow) was scheduled to take batting practice Friday and Saturday at loanDepot park before heading to Tampa on Sunday. Judge will take at-bats against minor-leaguers at the club’s minor-league complex “to hopefully put him in position to be activated Tuesday or Wednesday,” Boone said.

The plan remains for Judge to initially serve as the DH to give his elbow additional time to rest.

By Erik Boland

erik.boland@newsday.comeboland11

Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.