Yankees' new-look bullpen blows huge lead in loss to Marlins

The New York Yankees needed bullpen help ahead of the 2025 Major League Baseball trade deadline, and the front office delivered the help they needed. The Yankees acquired David Bednar, Jake Bird and Camilo Doval before Thursday's deadline to hopefully build what could be one of the best bullpens in the league.

It still might end up being that, but it did not perform like that in their debut games on Friday, with all three pitchers playing a major role in an almost unbelievable late-game collapse against the Miami Marlins. 

The Yankees were not only on the wrong end of a 13-12 loss, but they did so by blowing a 9-4 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, and then surrendering a 12-10 lead in the bottom of the ninth.

It was the new pitchers on the hook for all of those runs. 

It started with Bird allowing four earned runs in only one-third of an inning. All four runs came in the form of a Kyle Stowers grand slam.

That set the stage for Bednar to make his Yankees debut.

That resulted in him quickly giving up a game-tying solo home run to Javier Sanoja, and then giving up the lead on a single from Agustin Ramirez. 

The Yankees' lineup, however, was able to help pick up the slack and not only tie the game but also regain the lead in the top of the ninth inning. That resulted in Doval making his Yankees debut, and it could not have possibly gone worse as he allowed three runs in his inning of work. 

The Marlins were aided by a fielding error by Jose Caballero, the other big Yankees' trade deadline addition. 

The Marlins ended up winning on one of the shortest walk-off hits you will ever see.