Calls Mount for Yankees to Make Devin Williams Move After Loss to Rangers originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The New York Yankees specialize in losing games in the most dramatic way possible. Their 28 regular-season walk-off losses in extra-inning games since 2020 lead baseball, via Stathead's Katie Sharp.

Boone went with Williams for the eighth because he was saving David Bednar to pitch the ninth if the Yankees went ahead, or in a tie go with Mark Leiter Jr., who just came off the injured list Tuesday. Why Williams there? Besides blowing saves in his last two outings, he’d pitched to a 7.71 ERA in seven appearances since July 19.