Greg Joyce, Post
When the Yankees acquired two closers at the deadline, they recommitted to Devin Williams as their ninth-inning guy.
Less than a week later, that job is more up for grabs.
A night after Williams blew a save and gave up a run for the fifth time in his last seven outings, Aaron Boone indicated he would be more fluid with who his closer is on a given night.
"A little more open to using some other guys," Boone said Tuesday at Globe Life Field.
Could the MFY be considering . . . closer by committee?
Erich Richter
Devin Williams' time as the Yankees' closer appears to be on thin ice.Yankees manager Aaron Boone was noncommittal when asked about Williams' hold on the closer role after he blew another save on Monday, surrendering a game-tying home run to the Rangers' Joc Pederson"We'll talk about that," Boone said in an appearance on Talkin' Yanks on Tuesday. . . .Boone added that his new bullpen pieces, who each closed for other teams before the trade deadline, could be a part of the solution in The Bronx. . . .Williams did not seem as concerned on Monday about his performance despite his second consecutive blown save, which marked the fifth time in his last seven appearances he has allowed at least one run."It was just the one pitch that hurt me. Other than that, I executed my pitches," Williams said after the game.
Greg Joyce
One-third of the Yankees' trade deadline bullpen haul is headed for Triple-A.The Yankees optioned Jake Bird to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday morning, a day after he gave up a walk-off three-run home run to Josh Jung in a brutal 8-5, 10-inning loss to the Rangers on Monday night.It marked the second time in three outings since he was acquired from the Rockies that Bird got beat up in a harsh introduction to the Yankees.He also gave up a grand slam to Kyle Stowers on Friday night in Miami, helping to blow a 9-4 lead on the way to a 13-12 loss. . . .The early struggles for Bird were just a continuation of what was a rough month of July. . . . [I]n his last eight games as a Rockie, the 29-year-old got tagged for 14 earned runs (with three home runs) across 5.1 innings, good for a 23.63 ERA.
Greg Joyce, Post
Not even Aaron Judge's return could act as a human defibrillator for the Yankees.Because with the game on the line late for the second straight night, Aaron Boone again turned to Devin Williams, and once again the reliever could not come through in the biggest of moments.A night after he gave up the game-tying home run in the ninth inning, Williams entered a scoreless game in the eighth inning and gave up a pair of runs that sunk the Yankees in their fifth straight loss, 2-0 to the Rangers . . ."I mean, I don't really know what to say at this point," said Williams, who has given up a run in six of his past eight outings. . . .If the Yankees [falling to 25-34 since May 28] get swept by losing Wednesday's series finale, they would fly home out of playoff position altogether.They are also 6.5 games back of the Blue Jays and 3.5 back of the Red Sox in the AL East."Not good," Boone said. . . .After Nathan Eovaldi finished suffocating the Yankees across eight innings of one-hit ball, Boone called on Williams to handle the bottom of the eighth. . . .Williams quickly got the first out before Adolis García smoked a fly ball to left field.Jasson Domínguez ran back on it and then made a leaping attempt just before the warning track, but the ball tipped off his glove and went for a double. . . .Joc Pederson, who hit the game-tying homer off Williams on Monday night and entered Tuesday batting .132, came up next and drew a four-pitch walk before Williams walked Wyatt Langford on five pitches to load the bases. . . .Boone stuck with Williams to face the lefty-swinging Rowdy Tellez. . . .Tellez did swing through two pitches while falling behind 1-2, but then fouled off four pitches as he worked the count full before hitting the 10th pitch into center field for a two-run single. . . ."You're going to hit some rough parts like that," said Judge, who went 0-for-3 with a pair of strikeouts in his first game back from the IL.
Nathan Eovaldi Completely Dominates Struggling Yankees
Greg Joyce, Post
The last thing a scuffling team needs to see is Nathan Eovaldi standing on the mound.But that was the case for the Yankees Tuesday night and it went about as expected.Eovaldi dominated the Yankees, allowing just one base runner across eight shutout innings on a night when they mustered just two hits total in a 2-0 loss to the Rangers at Globe Life Field. . . .Anthony Volpe was responsible for the only hit off Eovaldi, recording a hustle double with two outs in the third inning.Ryan McMahon led off the ninth with a single against Phil Maton, but was quickly erased when pinch hitter Giancarlo Stanton grounded into a double play before Trent Grisham struck out to end it.Eovaldi . . . became the third opposing starter in the past four games to shut down the Yankees . . ."We were getting it in play some" [Boone said].
Aaron Boone's Tone Shift Shows Just How Dire Yankees' Situation Is Now
Greg Joyce, Post
This is generally the time of year, or at least the kind of stretch, when Aaron Boone has been known to offer some version of the familiar refrain: It's all right in front of us.Except that has been missing from his vocabulary during this road trip from hell, perhaps because what is right in front of the Yankees is a growing list of teams in the playoff race.Instead, the eighth-year manager, who almost always tries to display the even-keeled nature he wants his team to emulate, has had a shift in tone with more urgency in recent days as this two-month stretch of sub-.500 play by the Yankees grows deeper and the number of remaining games grows smaller.
The season's getting shorter in a hurry," Boone said before the Yankees' 2-0 loss to the Rangers on Tuesday night. "So it's no time for excuses and feeling bad. I know everyone feels like crap, but we got to go take it. Haven't been able to do that on this road trip so far. But we got to do it better."
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Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I may have found a couple of guys that could help New York's bullpen:
A naked man wearing nothing but a balaclava and plastic clogs — and carrying a sex toy on a stick — has been startling tourists while wandering around a historic castle in Slovakia.The unidentified intruder posed for a picture carrying his bizarre prop Monday near Gýmeš Castle, a popular hiking destination in the country, the Slovak outlet TV JOJ reported.He reportedly apologized to the two female hikers who spotted him, claiming that he thought no visitors would be around on a Monday, and let them take his picture, the outlet said."He had a balaclava, a stick, and a dildo stuck to the stick. We were scared of him, but he told us he was sorry, that he didn't want to scare us . . . he thought that since it was Monday, he wouldn't meet anyone," one of the tourists said.
Naked Man In Gimp Mask Caught On Bizarre Video Prowling Quiet Town
A naked man wearing nothing but a black gimp mask and sneakers has been caught on creepy video prowling the streets of a quiet seaside town in England.Video of the phantom flasher wearing a bondage hood while stalking the streets of Lytham at night has some shaken locals spluttering into their tea."It's a gimp mask, I've watched the footage. I've no idea what he thinks he's doing," a resident who didn't want to be named told PA Media.
Note to Cashman: Either of these guys might be able to do better than a 23.63 ERA.
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