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<\/main>It was a classic unraveling, the sort with which the New York Yankees have become far too familiar.<\/p>\n

The Yankees led the rival Houston Astros 4-1 in the middle of the sixth inning on Wednesday, but by the bottom of the eighth, it was a 4-4 tie. Then, much-maligned Yankees reliever Devin Williams took the mound, and all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n

After a leadoff double, Williams walked the bases loaded with two outs. Then, though a 2-0 pitch to Taylor Trammell appeared to graze the virtual strike zone, Williams wound up walking his third batter of the inning to force home the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n

Williams got ejected arguing with home plate umpire Brian Walsh, claiming he had four pitches throughout the course of the inning that were called incorrectly.<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘I had four that you missed,’ and he threw me out for it,” Williams said,\u00a0per Steve Schaeffer\u00a0of\u00a0MLB.com. “Never been ejected in my career.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the pain was only beginning.<\/p>\n

Manager Aaron Boone was ejected as well during the pitching change as Williams was removed. But had he stayed, he would have been in the dugout to witness as Camilo Doval allowed an RBI single, then balked home a third run in the inning and wild-pitched home a fourth.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing how much I ask for that balk call and never get it screaming from the (dugout),” Boone said,\u00a0per Greg Joyce\u00a0of the New York Post.<\/p>\n

Perhaps worst of all, the Yankees could have tied the game if they prevented any of those four runs. Cody Bellinger hit a three-run home run to bring New York within one, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. struck out in the next plate appearance on a 3-2 slider from closer Bryan Abreu that appeared to just miss the virtual zone.<\/p>\n

“It’s just ridiculous,” Williams said, per Schaeffer. “Jazz got the pitch taken out of his hands on a pitch that was a lot further from the zone than pitches I was making.”<\/p>\n

The Yankees certainly had valid gripes in some instances on Wednesday night. But they’re also far too comfortable blaming the umpires and ignoring their own agency in a meltdown.<\/p>\n

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