After two consecutive shutout victories to start the season, the Yankees are on pace to go 162-0 with zero runs allowed. Will that happen? Probably not, but it is the first time in franchise history that they’ve blanked their opponents in the first 18 innings, and heading into the series finale tonight at Oracle Park, the Bombers are looking for a sweep on national television once again.

Will Warren will make his first start of the season after a very strong spring, where a new release point has allowed him to fly up the Stuff+ rankings. Now sporting No. 29 after wearing No. 98 to start his career, the 26-year-old is coming off a 9-8 season with a 4.44 ERA (91 ERA+) and 4.07 FIP in 162.1 innings, leading all rookies in starts, innings, and strikeouts. He had a 1.42 ERA in six spring starts across 25.1 innings and will look to avoid the fate of being the first Yankee to give up a run this season.

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Tyler Mahle is on the bump for the home team and will make his Giants debut after signing a one-year, $10 million pact in the offseason. He was once a reliable starter for the Cincinnati Reds, who broke out in 2021 and built his value up enough to get traded at the 2022 deadline to the Twins for Spencer Steer and Christian Encarnacion-Strand, which did not age well for Minnesota.

Mahle’s career since then has completely derailed. In the next 2.5 seasons with the Twins and Rangers, he made 12 combined starts and threw just 54.2 total innings as he battled shoulder and elbow injuries. In 2025, he still missed several months with shoulder fatigue, but was highly effective when healthy, pitching to a 2.18 ERA (168 ERA+) and 3.37 FIP across 86.2 innings, even with the lowest strikeout rate of his career.

His stuff is a far cry from what it was five years ago, but the 31-year-old managed to be effective at limiting hard contact with refined location. Mahle has leaned hard on a low-90s four-seamer, backed up by a splitter, cutter, and slider. The most damage is done off the heater, but he still doesn’t generate many whiffs on his secondaries, relying more on soft contact.

After a platoon-heavy lineup on Friday, the Yankees are back to basics today. In fact, it’s the exact same lineup as Opening Day, when they scored seven runs off Logan Webb. For the Giants, Jung Hoo Lee will lead off for the first time, and Luis Arraez moves down to third in front of Rafael Devers. It’s the same nine batters that they used in each of the first two games, just in a different order.

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How to watch

Location: Oracle Park — San Francisco, CA

First pitch: 7:15 pm ET

TV broadcast: FOX

Radio broadcast: KNBR 680, 1510 AM – KSFN (SF), WFAN 660/101.9 FM, WADO 1280 (NYY)

Online stream: N/A

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