ARLINGTON, Texas — Not even Aaron Choose's return may act as a human defibrillator for the Yankees.
Then once more, their issues dated again to nicely earlier than he went on the injured listing, so his comeback was not going to be a cure-all.
And whereas the Yankees solely mustering two hits was the largest situation of the night time, a good sport discovered Devin Williams as soon as repeatedly, the reliever couldn't come by within the largest of moments.
An evening after he gave up the game-tying house run within the ninth inning, Williams entered a scoreless sport within the eighth inning and gave up a pair of runs that had been the distinction within the Yankees' fifth straight loss, 2-0 to the Rangers on Tuesday night time at Globe Life Subject.
Williams bought the primary out of the eighth earlier than Adolis Garcia smoked a fly ball to left discipline. Jasson Domínguez ran again on it after which made a leaping try simply earlier than the warning monitor, however the ball tipped off his glove and went for a double.
Joc Pederson, who hit the game-tying homer off Williams on Monday night time and entered Tuesday batting .132, got here up subsequent and drew a four-pitch stroll earlier than Williams walked Wyatt Langford on 5 pitches to load the bases.
The Yankees rapidly had Mark Leiter Jr. and David Bednar warming within the bullpen, however Aaron Boone caught with Williams to face the lefty-swinging Rowdy Tellez, who battled for a 10-pitch at bat that led to a two-run single to heart.
Boone had stated earlier than the sport that he can be open to utilizing different relievers to shut a sport transferring ahead, however after Camilo Doval and Luke Weaver threw the sixth and seventh innings, respectively, the supervisor turned to Williams for the eighth.
The very last thing a scuffling group must see is Nathan Eovaldi, however that's who was standing on the mound Tuesday night time towards the Yankees.
The Rangers ace was coming off a July by which he had allowed simply two earned runs throughout 30 2/3 innings, then bought much more dominant on Tuesday.
Eovaldi dominated the Yankees, suffocating all of them night time and holding them to only one baserunner throughout eight shutout innings. Anthony Volpe's hustle double with two outs within the third inning was all that stood between the Yankees and probably being on the incorrect aspect of historical past.
Ryan McMahon led off the ninth with a single towards Phil Maton, however was rapidly erased when pinch-hitter Giancarlo Stanton grounded right into a double play.
In his first sport since July 25, the day earlier than he was identified with a proper flexor pressure, Choose went 0-for-3 with a pair of strikeouts.
Will Warren turned in a robust outing of 5 scoreless innings after flirting with hassle for many of the night time.
He gave up three hits and three walks, however held the Rangers to 0-for-10 with runners in scoring place – stranding a runner at third base in three of his first 4 innings — whereas placing out 5.
The one situation is that he wanted 98 pitches to get 15 outs, turning into the sixth straight Yankees starter to not make it into the sixth inning, that means one other heavy night time of labor for the bullpen.
