{"id":132106,"date":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132106\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:07:09","slug":"devin-williams-gives-up-3-in-10th-for-another-yankees-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132106\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Williams gives up 3 in 10th for another Yankees loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees<\/a> reliever <a data-player-guid=\"4a17f08f-b20a-2d81-ae0c-ec06266eb20e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33224\/devin-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Williams<\/a>&#8216; struggles continued Friday night, as he allowed three runs in the 10th inning of New York&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401696640\/astros-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-3 loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"00a3015f-09ec-1b03-52af-656f5e0a18d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"62868d49-9586-ee9d-19b4-66fb91f26733\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32653\/carlos-correa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Correa<\/a> hit a tiebreaking single before <a data-player-guid=\"60f0f34f-5df0-bf86-98ea-f6fea1667f33\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37773\/taylor-trammell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Trammell<\/a> added a two-run homer off Williams to make it 5-2. Williams has allowed four homers in his past eight appearances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not making pitches,&#8221; Williams told reporters. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty simple. I stink right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams has two blown saves and recorded two losses in his past four outings, giving up at least one run in five straight appearances since July 29.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45860606\/2025-mlb-trade-deadline-jeff-passan-awards-mariners-twins-athletics-red-sox-cubs\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754755629_637_r1527559_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He has allowed 28 earned runs this year, two more than he did in 2022 to 2024 combined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really haven&#8217;t struggled like this since probably 2018 [after Tommy John surgery],&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;All I did then was continue to work and just try to help the team in any way I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he would continue to use Williams and would try to find &#8220;softer landing spots&#8221; for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll try and find good spots for him to get him back to being a big part of the pen, which he should be,&#8221; Boone said.<\/p>\n<p>Boone noted his bullpen was limited Friday after <a data-player-guid=\"b8160712-4442-6280-b6ef-67bdf15250c7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38303\/david-bednar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Bednar<\/a> threw 42 pitches Wednesday and <a data-player-guid=\"ce349a61-6392-9f6a-fb73-67b9a3e0b357\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36202\/mark-leiter-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Leiter Jr.<\/a> pitched Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>New York lost for the sixth time in seven games and dropped to 3-8 in extra innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros needed four pitches to take the lead in the 10th inning. Automatic runner <a data-player-guid=\"3e8ded2a-d813-324d-5925-28149ef72a30\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31662\/jose-altuve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Altuve<\/a> went to third when Williams threw his first pitch to the backstop. After the Yankees pulled their infield in, Correa lined a changeup to center field.<\/p>\n<p>Williams (3-5) got two outs before Trammell drove an 0-1 changeup into the right-field seats.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros won for the third time in four games, holding on to their American League West lead despite having only 10 wins in their past 26 games.<\/p>\n<p>Williams joined the Yankees in a December trade after playing six seasons for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4750d73d-d92e-b390-758c-2c7b44a810db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yankees reliever Devin Williams&#8216; struggles continued Friday night, as he allowed three runs in the 10th inning of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-132106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114999672518714007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}