TAMPA — A Yankees bullpen that had been requested to work additional time on the weekend had delivered in a giant means up till the ninth inning Saturday.
That’s when a four-run lead turned a tie recreation by the hands of Devin Williams and gave approach to a intestine punch of a loss in 10 innings.
After the Yankees wasted runners on the corners and no outs within the high of the tenth, the Rays walked it off within the backside of the inning when Jonathan Aranda clubbed a two-run shot off Yoendrys Gómez for a 10-8 comeback win at Steinbrenner Subject.
The crushing loss snapped the Yankees’ five-game profitable streak and spoiled what had been an in any other case robust weekend for the bullpen.
The ninth-inning Rays rally began with one out, when José Caballero reached on an infield single to 3rd base and took second on Oswaldo Cabrera’s excessive throw to first.
Williams then harm himself by strolling No. 9 hitter Ben Rortvedt on 5 pitches, turning the order over to Chandler Simpson, who in his MLB debut poked a ground-rule double down the left discipline line to attain one run.
Yandy Díaz got here up subsequent and hit a smooth chopper to shortstop for one more infield single that made it 8-6.
After Díaz stole second on the primary pitch to Brandon Lowe, Lowe delivered a bloop single to heart that scored two runs to tie the sport at eight.
Williams, who transformed a simple save on Thursday night time right here, has given up 9 runs (eight earned) in his first 9 appearances (eight innings) with the Yankees.
After Carlos Carrasco lasted simply four-plus innings, Ian Hamilton (two innings), Mark Leiter Jr. and Luke Weaver mixed to toss 4 shutout innings to protect a 6-4 lead.
Aaron Decide and Paul Goldschmidt then added RBI singles within the high of the ninth to make it 8-4, which proved to be vital within the backside of the body.
Decide’s capped off a 3-for-5, three-RBI effort as he remained on fireplace, now hitting .397 with a 1.236 OPS via 21 video games.
With Will Warren additionally making a brief begin on Thursday, the Yankees bullpen has needed to cowl 15 ¹/₃ innings via the primary three video games of the sequence.
It had allowed simply two runs throughout that stretch earlier than attending to Williams within the ninth.
Earlier than the ninth inning Saturday, except for the Rays (9-12) turning a 6-1 recreation into 6-4 off Carrasco, the Yankees’ largest fear on Saturday was Ben Rice’s well being.
The recent-hitting DH was hit by a pitch on the left elbow within the fourth inning and went to a neighborhood hospital for X-rays and a CT scan, which each got here again detrimental. For now, the workforce is asking it a left elbow contusion.
The Yankees knocked Shane Baz out of the sport after simply 3 ¹/₃ innings, forcing him to throw 83 pitches to get via 18 hitters whereas pushing 5 runs throughout in opposition to him.
The offensive assault began from the get-go because the Yankees loaded the bases with no outs within the first inning and turned it into two runs.
Goldschmidt drove in a single, grounding right into a circus double play on which shortstop Caballero made a sliding cease to knock the ball down and hiked it to second via his legs.
Jazz Chisholm Jr., who entered the sport in a 4-for-42 skid (with a looming suspension that he’s interesting for posting on social media after his ejection Thursday), got here up subsequent and singled up the center to make it 2-0.
Trent Grisham prolonged the result in 3-0 within the second inning when he led off along with his fifth residence run of the season. Identified extra for his protection, Grisham’s bat has pressured Boone to get him within the lineup extra usually early this season and the lefty hitter has continued to ship.
The Rays snapped their 17-inning scoreless streak within the sequence when Díaz hit an RBI single to left with two outs within the third inning to make it 3-1.
However the Yankees tacked on three extra runs within the high of the fourth.
Jasson Domínguez and Cabrera drew one-out walks off Baz earlier than reliever Manuel Rodríguez hit Rice to load the bases.
Decide got here up subsequent and delivered a bloop two-run single earlier than Austin Wells hit a sacrifice fly to stretch the result in 6-1.
