Devin Williams blows another save for the Yankees in a 4-2 loss to the Blue Jays

New York—The Yankees were back in the Bronx for game one of this three-game set between the Yankees and Blue Jays. The Jays took down the Yankees 4-2 in heartbreaking fashion. Carlos Carrasco got the start for the Yankees, and Jose Berrios got the ball for the Jays. 

In the top of the first inning, Carrasco worked around a leadoff single from Bo Bichette, picking up his first strikeout of the game and a nice 5-6-3 double play from the Yankees infield to end the inning. 

Carrasco worked an easy nine-pitch 1-2-3 top of the second inning, with some help from a beautiful play by shortstop Anthony Volpe. 

In the bottom of the third inning, Austin Wells picked up a one-out single. The next batter, Oswaldo Cabrera, came through with a single of his own, allowing Wells to go first to third. Then Trent Grisham hit a groundball to first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who gunned down Wells at the plate, who was running on contact to keep it a scoreless game. 

In the top of the fourth inning, second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. made an unbelievable diving play to help Carrasco work around two walks. Carrasco also picked up his second strikeout of the ballgame. 

In the top of the sixth inning, Tim Hill replaced Carrasco on the mound, and immediately served up a solo home run to Vladimir Guerrero Jr to make it a 1-0 Blue Jays lead. 

Carlos Carrasco's final line: five innings pitched, three hits allowed, zero earned runs, two walks, and two strikeouts on 67 pitches. Carrasco was great tonight; he produced a ton of weak contact and was working very efficiently. Carrasco threw his sinker 33% of the time, slider 31%, fastball 16%, changeup 12%, and curveball 7% of the time.  

“I felt pretty good today,” Carrasco said. “So whatever I did today, I’m going to try to bring it to my next start so I can continue to do better. Every time I go out there, I’m just trying to put a zero up on the board.” 

In the bottom of the sixth, Cody Bellinger worked a one-out walk, then got caught stealing on the first pitch to Jazz. Jazz then singled up the middle, then got caught stealing a couple of pitches later. 

Hill came back out for the top of the seventh, gave up a leadoff single, and picked up the first out of the inning. Ian Hamilton came in to replace Hill on the mound and worked out of the inning with some help from a 5-4-3 double play. 

In the bottom of the seventh inning, Anthony Volpe lined a double to right field. The next batter, Austin Wells, flew out to deep center, allowing Volpe to tag up and move to third base. Then Oswaldo Cabrera delivered an RBI single to make it a 1-1 ballgame. 

In the top of the eighth, Fernando Cruz came in to pitch and replace Hamilton. Cruz worked around a leadoff single and a questionable play from Jazz, where he didn't get the lead runner at second base, to keep the game tied at 1-1. 

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Cody Bellinger dunked in a one-out hustle double to no man's land in center field, and the next batter, Jazz, worked a walk. Then Volpe was hit by a pitch in a 0-2 count to load the bases with one out. The next batter, Austin Wells, picked up a sacrifice fly to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. 

In the top of the ninth, Devin Williams replaced Cruz, and immediately allowed two runners to reach via a leadoff single and a hit by pitch. Then, Alejandro Kirk delivered a back-breaking 2-run double to give the Jays a 3-2 lead as Williams could not record an out and blew the save. Then Mark Leiter Jr. came in to replace Williams on the mound and instantly served up an RBI single from Addison Barger to make it a 4-2 game. 

“I don't know, it's something I’ve been battling for most of the season,” Williams said on his command. “It's getting pretty frustrating. The only thing you can do is just keep working. Continue to show up every day and give it everything I’ve got.”

In the bottom of the ninth, Ben Rice crushed a two-out double into the right field corner, but that was all for the Yankees as they lost a heartbreaker 4-2 to the Blue Jays. 

The Yankees will look to bounce back tomorrow in game two of this three-game series. Max Fried will get the start for the Yankees, and Kevin Gausman will take the ball for the Blue Jays. The first pitch will be at 1:05 p.m. ET on the YES Network. 

My thoughts on the game: Yankees replaced Cardiac Clay with Worthless Williams in the offseason. Devin Williams can’t be the closer anymore, he now has a 11.25 ERA on the season, and clearly can’t handle the Bronx. He reminds me of Joey Gallo as a closer. His body language looks horrible in-game and post-game press conferences; it looks like he doesn't even want to be here. Carlos Carrasco put together a really solid start tonight, firing five shutout innings. The bats were silent for the first six innings of this game, but they did enough late to put us in a spot to win, but Williams didn't have it again. Bellinger and Jazz both had nice games, as they both reached base three times. There is not much more to say about that game; it was another insanely frustrating loss for the Yankees due to Devin Williams.

Manager Aaron Boone talked postgame about potentially getting Williams in some lower-leverage situations. 

“Will see, I mean will talk through all that stuff, this is raw right now,” Boone said. “We want to do everything we can to make sure we get him right. We know how good he is and how valuable he will be for us."