Ryan Weathers allowed four runs in the first inning and the Yankees' offense produced next to nothing until the ninth inning 7-6 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Friday in North Port, Fla.

Here are the takeaways...

- Weathers, whom the Yanks acquired in January for five players, is looking to crack the rotation, but didn’t get the start he wanted as his second pitch was smoked for a 393-foot home run to left field off Mauricio Doubón's bat. The lefty's 97 mph heater went right into the inside corner, and Doubon turned on it easily.

Weathers then allowed a double down the right-field line when a 1-2 changeup up in the zone got poked the other way by Ozzie Albies. He came around to score on Austin Riley’s one-out single up the middle against a drawn-in infield. After plunking lefty-hitting Mike Yastrzemski in the back, Weathers allowed back-to-back RBI singles, the first to left by Jonah Heim and the second to right by Kyle Farmer. A couple of loud outs kept it to just a four-run inning with the Braves sending nine men to the plate.

The 26-year-old bounced back with a 1-2-3 second with a pair of strikeouts and a double-play in the third, but then the first two men reached on singles in the fourth. Weathers then got back-to-back strikeouts to close his day.

His final line: 3.2 innings, seven hits, four runs, four strikeouts, and one HBP on 67 pitches (48 strikes).

- Atlanta starter Didier Fuentes, the hard-throwing No. 3 prospect in the Braves’ system, had no such issues navigating his 42-pitch start. He tallied five strikeouts without allowing a base runner over his three innings, getting Trent Grisham at a sweeper below the zone, Cody Bellinger swinging through a 99 mph heater off the plate, Ryan McMahon swinging at a sweeper off the plate, Oswaldo Cabrera whiffing on a sweeper down-and-in, and Ernesto Martinez Jr. looking at a fastball at the knees.

- Yovanny Cruz, a 26-year-old minor leaguer, showed off some good stuff in the 1-2-3 fifth, getting two strikeouts as he pumped in nine pitches of 100 mph or faster out of 15 total.

- Max Schuemann got the Yanks' first hit with one out in the fourth with a double on a bloop into no-man's land down the right field line. He finished 1-for-3 with a run scored.

- Bellinger ripped an RBI single up the middle off lefty Dylan Dodd in his second at-bat. He finished 1-for-3 with two strikeouts swinging, the second on an up-and-in 90 mph sinker.

- Grisham went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts swinging, the second flailing at a changeup off the plate.

- Randal Grichuk went 0-for-3 with a mile-high pop-out in foul territory to third, a terrible-looking swing on a strikeout on a ball in the dirt, and a groundout to short.

- McMahon went 0-for-3 with a pair of swinging strikeouts, but did put a charge on a ball (106.7 mph off the bat) in his final at-bat to lineout to left.

- The Yanks scored five runs in the top of the ninth, capped by Jonathan Ornelas rocketing a monster, three-run home run: 460 feet and 113.1 mph off the bat.

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