Will Warren strikes out career-high 11 hitters in Yankees loss

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.On a night when their lineup was silent for a third straight game and their defense was not good enough, the Yankees could have received perfection from their starting pitcher and let it go to waste.Will Warren wasn’t perfect, but he was awfully impressive and seems to be gaining confidence by the start.“Lost in [the game] a little bit is how dominant an outing he had,” manager Aaron Boone said after Tuesday’s 4-0 loss to the Angels in The Bronx.The young righty struck out a career-high 11 in six strong innings in which he allowed three runs — runs that arose from well-placed batted balls and a pair of singles in which his defense could not keep the ball in the infield.In the second, a diving DJ LeMahieu could not smother a ground ball from Luis Rengifo, which scored a run.

An inning later, Jazz Chisholm Jr.similarly deflected a single from Taylor Ward, albeit on a tougher play, to drive in two.That represented the entirety of the Angels output against Warren, who retired the next and final 11 batters he faced after the Ward hit.

He commanded his four-seamer well in drawing eight whiffs and consistently got ahead in counts with his sinker.“Thought that was the best he’s commanded his fastball,” Austin Wells said.“You just see his fastball playing at another level right now,” Boone said of Warren, who has dropped his ERA from 5.65 on May 4 to 4.83.“Four-seam [pitches that batters] have a hard time picking up, that plays so well.”Warren does not overwhelm with heat — his fastball averaged 93.4 mph — but its horizontal movement, lower arm slot, accuracy and some deception have helped him sail.“I think from my slot and just getting it to the spots that we need it to be,” Warren said, “it catches them off guard.”Paul Goldschmidt (0-for-4) played in his 2,000th career game, the fourth most for ...