In the second inning, the legend of Giancarlo Stanton continued as he sent a ball to the train tracks above the crawford boxes for a solo shot to lead off the second inning. It was Stanton’s 18th home run of the season, and his 447th home ron of his career. With that blast, he is hitting .293 since returning from the IL in the middle of June.

In the fourth inning, the Yankees added on to their lead with a 1-out single by Rice, followed by a two-run home run in to the first row of the Crawford Boxes, making it 3-0 Yankees. Wells had been having terrific at-bats over the past few days and is not six for his last sixteen.

After Warren surrendered a run in the bottom of the fifth inning, Rice and Wells put fantastic at-bats on lefty OKert, putting runners on second and third, no outs. After Volpe struck out for the third time in the game — all horrible at-bats — Ryan McMahon did his job, driving a ball to center to get the runner home, and make it a 4-1 Yankee lead.

Will Warren’s Final Line: 5.0+ | 5 H | 2 R/ER | 0 BB | 4 K | 67 P | 4.28 ERA

Fernando Cruz was the first out of the bullpen, and though he gave up a run, it’s important to look deeper into how that run came to be, and it was on a misplay in left-center by Stanton and an RBI groundout after a wild pitch. This made the game 4-3 in the sixth inning.

Luke Weaver was the next out of the Yankees bullpen and gave up a leadoff single, and after a blown call by the home plate umpire Brian Wash lead to a Yordan Alvarez RBI single to tie the game at four. Weaver would then get Jose Altuve to fly out to end the inning.

The Yankees offense in the top of the eighth inning: Stanton pop-out to first, Ben Rice groundout to second, Austin Wells groundout to first. Real grit from the offense, a lot of fightback.

Aaron Boone went to Devin Williams in the eighth inning of a tie game. Williams blew his last game — though the Yankees came back to win it. The Yankees once again defy Einstein’s rule of insanity — “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”, and Williams quickly blows the game. He allowed a leadoff double to Correa, after being up 0-2 in the count, then a walk to Jesus Sanchez put runners on first and second, no outs for Jeremy Pena, who had a terrific at-bat against Williams, stuck out on the ninth pitch of the at-bat. It seemed that the Astros hitters were sitting on the fastball — which is what Correa doubled on. Then, Christian Walker walked, loading the bases for Ramon Uriaz, who struck out with the bases loaded and Tramell came up with two outs and took a bases-loaded walk to give the Astros the lead.

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh then ejected Devin Williams and Aaron Boone from the game. Both of them had beef as some really bad calls went against the Yankees, leading to the go-ahead run scoring. Boone certainly got his money’s worth.

Comilo Doval then came into the game with a 5-4 deficit and quickly made it a 8-4 game with an RBI single, a balk, and a wild pitch. The Yankees completely unraveled in the eighth inning.

Jasson Dominguez pinch-hit for Volpe in the ninth inning. He did ground out to lead the inning off.

With two outs and two on, Bellinger would step up and hit a three-run home run to make it a 1-run game in the ninth. It was not to be as Jazz struck out with Stanton on-deck to end the game.

SILVER LINING: Ryan McMahon had two hits and a sac fly tonight. If him and Wells are both going, that is a really welcome offensive boost for this team.