Soto and Volpe hit 3-run homers in 7-0 win that boosts Yanks to 9-2 and drops Marlins to 1-10

NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto and Anthony Volpe each hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning off Jesús Luzardo, and the New York Yankees romped over the Miami Marlins 7-0 on Monday night.

New York improved to 9-2 and matched the best 11-game start in team history.

Soto was cheered by fans extending into the top of the following inning following his first Yankee Stadium home run in pinstripes. He turned to applaud them.

“Amazing how the crowd reacted. It was really cool. They really surprised me with that one,” Soto said. “They're giving you a lot of love, so you got to give them some love back. Whenever I can, I just try to cheer for them, too.”

He is hitting .357 with two homers and 10 RBIs in his first season with the Yankees, who acquired the three-time All-Star from San Diego in December.

Soto was signing autographs before the game until just before Nestor Cortes threw his first pitch.

“I was thinking, hesitating, because the game was supposed to start at 6:08,” Soto said. “I have two minutes and turned around and Nestor is almost moving.”

A day after winning in St. Louis, the Marlins dropped to 1-10 for the first time since they lost 11 in a row after an opening victory in 1998 — when a selloff followed the team’s first World Series title.

“If you look at it as 1-10, you're just going to dig yourself into a deeper hole,” Luzardo said. “It's just more of going out there and trying to be your best every day.”

The game breezed by in 2 hours, 1 minute, the fastest nine-inning game since a 3-0 loss at Cleveland in an even 2 hours on June 12, 1992.

Cortes (1-1), pitching against his hometown team for the first time, allowed two hits, struck out six and walked none over eight innings. Cortes had his longest outing since May 2022 and the longest by a Yankees starter this year. After his 2023 season was cut short by a shoulder injury, Cortes won for the first time since May 30.

Josh Maciejewski, a 28-year-old left-hander, got three groundouts on four pitches in his major league debut as Miami was shut out for the first time this year.

Volpe put the Yankees ahead when he drove a flat slider over the fence in left-center, and Soto doubled the lead when he sent a first-pitch changeup high over the right-field wall.

Alex Verdugo added an RBI single in the fifth off Luzardo (0-3), who allowed seven runs, eight hits and five walks in 4 2/3 innings. Luzardo has a 7.20 ERA this season and an 18.36 ERA in three career appearances against the Yankees.

“The walks just really killed me,” Luzardo said.

Bryan De La Cruz had both Miami hits.

First pitch was pushed back four hours last week to 6:05 p.m. to avoid the solar eclipse. At 3:30 p.m., several Yankees players stood on the field to watch an eerie light illuminate the diamond.

“The advice is we can’t be on the field for BP and that’s, from 2:10 to 4:40,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said earlier. “I don’t know if that’s advice or a mandate.”

“Eclipse” from Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” was played a few minutes before the national anthem.

WORTH NOTING

Boone said Major League Baseball told him Toronto’s Bowden Francis should have been charged with a quick pitch to Gleyber Torres in the first inning Sunday by umpire Ángel Hernández, who instead called strike three.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Marlins: OF Jazz Chisholm Jr. was out of the starting lineup a day after banging into the center-field fence in an unsuccessful attempt to deny Nolan Gorman a home run.

UP NEXT

LHP Carlos Rodón (0-0, 2.79 ERA) starts Tuesday night for the Yankees and A.J. Puk (0-2, 9.00 ERA) for the Marlins.

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New York Yankees' Juan Soto, right, reacts in front third base coach Luis Rojas (67) after hitting a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees catcher Jose Trevino, left, shakes hands with Josh Maciejewski, right, after they defeated the Miami Marlins, Monday, April 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees's Anthony Volpe, right, celebrates with Anthony Rizzo, left, after hitting a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees' Anthony Volpe hits a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees' Juan Soto celebrates with Aaron Judge after hitting a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees' Juan Soto reacts after hitting a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees' Juan Soto reacts after hitting a double against the Miami Marlins during the third inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees' Juan Soto rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

New York Yankees' Juan Soto follows through on a home run against the Miami Marlins during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 8, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth had been in a deradicalization program but had no links to an alleged network of teen extremists in the east coast city of Sydney, authorities said.

The boy had participated in the federally funded Countering Violent Extremism program for two years but had no criminal record, Western Australia Police Minister Paul Papalia said Monday.

“The challenge we confront with people like the 16-year-old in this incident is that he’s known to hold views that are dangerous and potentially he could be radicalized,” Papalia said. “But the problem with individuals like this is they can act at short notice without warning and be very dangerous.”

On the potential for the boy to have been radicalized, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was concerned by social media pushing extreme positions.

“It’s a dynamic that isn’t just an issue for government. It’s an issue for our entire society, whether it be violent extremism, misogyny and violence against women. It is an issue that of course I’m concerned about,” Albanese told reporters.

Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanch said the boy had phoned police late Saturday saying he was about to commit “acts of violence” but did not say where. Minutes later, a member of the public reported to police seeing the boy with a knife in a hardware store parking lot.

Three police officers responded, one armed with a gun and two with stun guns. Police deployed both stun guns but they failed to incapacitate the boy before he was killed by a single gunshot, Blanch said.

The stabbing victim is a man in his 30s who was wounded in his back. He was in serious but stable condition at a Perth hospital, police said.

Blanch said members of the local Muslim community had raised concerns with police about the boy’s behavior before he was killed on Saturday.

The boy had said in a text message to associates, "I am going on the path of jihad tonight for the sake of Allah," Australian Associated Press reported, prompting several to alert police.

Police said the stabbing had the hallmarks of a terrorist attack but have not declared it as such. Factors that can influence that decision include whether state police need federal resources, including the Australian Security Intelligence Organization domestic spy agency.

Blanch said the Western Australia Police Force investigation did not need additional federal resources and he was confidence the situation was different from the one in Sydney.

“We are dealing with complex issues, both mental health issues but also online radicalization issues,” Blanch said Sunday. “But we believe he very much is acting alone and we do not have concerns at this time that there is an ongoing network or other concerns that might have been seen over in Sydney."

Western Australia Premier Roger Cook said his government and the state education department had been aware of concerns at the boy's school about his behavior. Cook didn't directly respond to reports that several boys at Rossmoyne Senior High School, the prestigious government school he attended, were attempting to radicalize classmates.

“I'll leave that up the the Education Department to clarify,” Cook told reporters. “This young man was harboring some extremist thoughts, which is the reason why he was part of the Countering Violent Extremism program.”

Amanda Spencer-Teo, a parent of a Rossmoyne student, said multiple “red flags” had been raised about the behavior of some students.

“Parents have been raising this with the school for some time,” Spencer-Teo, who will be an opposition party candidate at state elections next year, told The Australian newspaper. “The school and the department have failed to provide information to those concerned parents.”

In the stabbings at a Sydney church on April 15, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb declared the stabbings of an Assyrian Orthodox bishop and priest as a terrorist act within hours. The boy arrested was later charged with committing a terrorist act. In the subsequent investigation, six more teenagers were charged with terror-related offenses.

Police alleged all seven were part of a network that “adhered to a religiously motivated, violent extremist ideology.”

Some Muslim leaders have criticized Australian police for declaring the church stabbing a terrorist act but not a rampage two days earlier in a Sydney shopping mall in which six people were killed and a dozen wounded.

The 40-year-old attacker, who was shot dead by police, had a history of schizophrenia and most of the victims he targeted were women. Police have yet to reveal the man’s motive.

In this image from a video, Western Australian Premier Roger Cook speaks at a press conference in Perth, Australia Sunday, May 5, 2024. A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth, officials said Sunday. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

This image from a video, shows a parking lot where an incident occurred in Perth, Australia Sunday, May 5, 2024. A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth, officials said Sunday. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)

In this image from a video, Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch speaks at a press conference in Perth, Australia Sunday, May 5, 2024. A 16-year-old boy armed with a knife was shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth, officials said Sunday. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)