ANAHEIM, Calif. — For the primary time since being faraway from the closer’s role, Devin Williams took the mound within the ninth inning Tuesday for a save attempt.
He lived to inform about it, just barely.
Entering to guard a three-run lead, Williams gave up a pair of runs and brought the winning run to the plate before getting the ultimate out that secured the Yankees’ 3-2 win over the Angels.
“You only keep going,” Williams said. “The sport’s not over, we didn’t lose yet, so it’s pretty easy.
“At the tip of the day, we won. That’s all that matters.”
With a person on first and two runs already in, Williams went 3-0 to pinch-hitter Logan O’Hoppe, who had the green light and swung at a fastball that he popped up into foul territory to finish the sport.
“I didn’t think he can be swinging there, to be honest,” Williams said. “But he sort of did me a favor.”
In his first save attempt since April 25 — the sport he blew that got him faraway from the closer’s job — Williams gave up a leadoff homer to Yoan Moncada after which allowed a pair of singles across the first out.
Jo Adell then hit a grounder to the outlet that Anthony Volpe made a sliding stop on and threw from his knees to second, where DJ LeMahieu needed to stretch to catch it and deftly kept his back foot on the bag.
A run scored on the play, but getting the out was vital.
“Not nervous about [Williams],” manager Aaron Boone said. “In the long run, you bend and don’t break, there’s rather a lot you are taking away from that outing. The fact is he’s throwing the ball rather well. They put a pair good swings on him tonight, but that’s a part of it.”
The Yankees entered Tuesday leading the majors in home runs, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, extra-base hits and walks.
After which they were tied for first in a much less appreciated stat: sacrifice flies, with 23 of them of their first 53 games.
“We wish to be good situationally,” Boone said. “We wish to be situationally solid and that’s certainly one of those areas. Especially now, in the sport where the strikeout is so prevalent, especially with the arms you’re consistently seeing, to have the opportunity to money in those runs with lower than two outs without getting successful, hopefully that’s something that continues for us.”
Austin Wells delivered a sacrifice fly within the eighth inning Monday night to offer an insurance run within the Yankees’ 5-1 win over the Angels, giving him six on the 12 months, which trailed only the Diamondbacks’ Geraldo Perdomo for the most important league lead.
Cody Bellinger, who had a sacrifice fly in each of his first three games of the season — to the purpose that Boone told him he had the market cornered — was tied for third on Tuesday with five.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (oblique strain) went to Double-A Somerset on Tuesday to undergo a full workout, which included taking batting practice on the sector.
Assuming he bounces back from that well, the infielder is predicted to get into rehab games in the following few days, which might put him in line to rejoin the Yankees once they open a homestand next Tuesday.
“A likelihood he could possibly be playing in a [rehab] game Thursday, but we’ll get through today and see how we would like to put out the week,” Boone said.
Gerrit Cole has joined the Yankees for the California portion of this West Coast swing, not removed from his backyard in Newport Beach. … Marcus Stroman (knee inflammation) threw one other bullpen session on Tuesday at Angel Stadium.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — For the primary time since being faraway from the closer’s role, Devin Williams took the mound within the ninth inning Tuesday for a save attempt.
He lived to inform about it, just barely.
Entering to guard a three-run lead, Williams gave up a pair of runs and brought the winning run to the plate before getting the ultimate out that secured the Yankees’ 3-2 win over the Angels.
“You only keep going,” Williams said. “The sport’s not over, we didn’t lose yet, so it’s pretty easy.
“At the tip of the day, we won. That’s all that matters.”
With a person on first and two runs already in, Williams went 3-0 to pinch-hitter Logan O’Hoppe, who had the green light and swung at a fastball that he popped up into foul territory to finish the sport.
“I didn’t think he can be swinging there, to be honest,” Williams said. “But he sort of did me a favor.”
In his first save attempt since April 25 — the sport he blew that got him faraway from the closer’s job — Williams gave up a leadoff homer to Yoan Moncada after which allowed a pair of singles across the first out.
Jo Adell then hit a grounder to the outlet that Anthony Volpe made a sliding stop on and threw from his knees to second, where DJ LeMahieu needed to stretch to catch it and deftly kept his back foot on the bag.
A run scored on the play, but getting the out was vital.
“Not nervous about [Williams],” manager Aaron Boone said. “In the long run, you bend and don’t break, there’s rather a lot you are taking away from that outing. The fact is he’s throwing the ball rather well. They put a pair good swings on him tonight, but that’s a part of it.”
The Yankees entered Tuesday leading the majors in home runs, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, extra-base hits and walks.
After which they were tied for first in a much less appreciated stat: sacrifice flies, with 23 of them of their first 53 games.
“We wish to be good situationally,” Boone said. “We wish to be situationally solid and that’s certainly one of those areas. Especially now, in the sport where the strikeout is so prevalent, especially with the arms you’re consistently seeing, to have the opportunity to money in those runs with lower than two outs without getting successful, hopefully that’s something that continues for us.”
Austin Wells delivered a sacrifice fly within the eighth inning Monday night to offer an insurance run within the Yankees’ 5-1 win over the Angels, giving him six on the 12 months, which trailed only the Diamondbacks’ Geraldo Perdomo for the most important league lead.
Cody Bellinger, who had a sacrifice fly in each of his first three games of the season — to the purpose that Boone told him he had the market cornered — was tied for third on Tuesday with five.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (oblique strain) went to Double-A Somerset on Tuesday to undergo a full workout, which included taking batting practice on the sector.
Assuming he bounces back from that well, the infielder is predicted to get into rehab games in the following few days, which might put him in line to rejoin the Yankees once they open a homestand next Tuesday.
“A likelihood he could possibly be playing in a [rehab] game Thursday, but we’ll get through today and see how we would like to put out the week,” Boone said.
Gerrit Cole has joined the Yankees for the California portion of this West Coast swing, not removed from his backyard in Newport Beach. … Marcus Stroman (knee inflammation) threw one other bullpen session on Tuesday at Angel Stadium.
