Yanks Blow Late Leads to Ruin Another Schlittler Gem. NY 4 Milwaukee 3

May 10, 2026 paperbacklou 2026 0
Paul Goldschmidt leads off the game with a Homer to left.

The Yankee bullpen blew a 2-0 lead in the 7th and a 3-2 lead in the 10th to ruin another gem of a start by Cam Schlittler in going down to the Brewers 4-3 in 10 innings on a Saturday night in Milwaukee.

The loss drops the Yanks into 2nd place behind Tampa by percentage points; the Tampa-Boston game was rained out.

Schlittler pitched 6 innings of 2-hit, shutout ball, but Brent Headrick allowed a solo HR in the 7th, Camilo Doval allowed a game-tying run in the 8th, and Fernando Cruz and Tim Hill blew a 4-3 lead the Yanks had gotten in the top of the 10th by allowing 2 runs in the bottom of the 10th.

NY’s offense came courtesy of Paul Goldschmidt, who hit a solo HR in the 1st and drove in a run with an RBI single in the 4th off Milwaukee starter Kyle Harrison, and Ryan McMahon — who got a clutch, 2-out single in the top of the 10th to put NY ahead 3-2.

Boone said he thought about using Bednar in the 10th after he threw a 1-2-3, 12-pitch 9th “A little, but I knew I wasn’t going to want to take him out coming off several games ago where I go 5 outs with him — you don’t want to get in the habit of doing that over and over, and felt really good about being lined up there with Cruz and Hill to get us through. So I did consider it a little bit, but once you realize if he’s going to finish that game it might be getting up into the 30-35 pitch count and you just don’t want to do that with a full bullpen available.”

NY falls to 26-14, in a virtual tie with Tampa but percentage pts behind in 2nd. Milwaukee improves to 21-16.

1. Goldschmidt Gets Yanks Early Runs

Kyle Harrison started for Milwaukee. He is a highly touted, 24-year-old, 6’2 lefty who started his career with the San Francisco Giants — appearing in the Majors at age 21, and was the headliner amongst 3 prospects the Red Sox received for Rafael Devers. He pitched a few innings for Boston last season before being traded to Milwaukee, as the headline prospect the Brewers received for 3rd baseman Caleb Durbin.

He’s been good so far, pitching to a 3-1 2.41 slash line.

But Paul Goldschmidt got him leading off the game, with a solo HR to right for a 1-0 Yankee lead.

Harrison worked around 2 leadoff walks in the 2nd to Amed Rosario and Jazz Chisholm Jr. by getting 2 strikeouts, and worked around a 2-out walk to Aaron Judge in the 3rd, but got into trouble in the top of the 4th: a leadoff double by Amed Rosario, bunt single by Jazz Chiholm, and walk to Jose Caballero loaded the bases with nobody out.

But Harrison struck out Spencer Jones and got Austin Wells to pop out to 3rd — before Paul Goldschmidt reached on an infield single for an RBI and 2-0 Yankee lead.

Ben Rice lined out to shortstop to end the inning, leaving the bases loaded. Harrison was done for the night.

2. Schlittler Throws Another Gem

Meanwhile Cam Schlittler pitched another gem — 6 innings of 2-hit shutout ball with 0 walks.

He allowed but a 2-out infield single in the 1st, a 2-out baserunner in the 3rd on an error by Jazz Chisholm, and a 1-out single in the 5th, followed by consecutive groundouts. In between were 1-2-3 innings in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th. He left with a 2-0 lead.

Cam doesn’t get the win but improves his ERA to 1.35 — he is now slashing 5-1 1.35.

3. Headrick Coughs Up a HR; Helped by Jones’ D

It was 2-0 Yanks in the bottom of the 7th when Jake Bauers clipped Brent Headrick for a 420-foot solo HR to right to make it a 2-1 game.

Headrick then walked Andrew Vaughn, and allowed consecutive shots to center that Spencer Jones flagged down — the first a line shot by Sal Frelick that Jones made a nice sliding catch on.

4. Milwaukee Pen Shuts Down Yanks

Chad Patrick, a 27-year-old, 6’1 righty, relieved Harrison and pitched 3 shutout innings, striking out 5 using a filthy 90-MPH cutter combined with a 96-MPH fastball.

He allowed just 2 infield singles — to Cody Bellinger with 1 out in the 5th — caught stealing — and to Paul Goldschmidt in the 7th — erased on a double play.

Patrick walked Aaron Judge leading off the 8th and was relieved by DL Hall, a 27-year-old lefty.

Hall walked Cody Bellinger to put runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out, but got Cody Bellinger to ground into a fielder’s choice to 2nd, struck out Chisholm, and got Jose Caballero to ground out to end the threat — keeping the score 2-1 NY.

5. Doval Blows the Hold

Headrick got the first out of the bottom of the 8th, and Camilo Doval came in to get the 2nd out — so the Yanks were 4 outs away from a win, leading 2-1.

But Doval allowed a single to right by 2nd baseman Brice Turang, who promptly stole 2nd, and scored on a 2-out single by catcher William Contreras to left for a tie game at 2-2.

6. McMahon Puts Yanks Up in 10th

Lefty Aaron Ashby pitched a 1-2-3 shutout top of 9th, throwing pure filth.

David Bednar matched that by pitching a 1-2-3 shutout bottom of the 9th for the Yanks, sending the game into extra innings.

Ashby came back in for the top of the 10th, with Max Schuemann pinchrunning for Goldschmidt as the inherited runner at 2nd. Ashby struck out Ben Rice, intentionally walked Aaron Judge, and got Bellinger to lineout to left.

But with 2 outs, Ryan McMahon came thru with a clutch single to center for a 2-1 Yankee lead. Judge was caught in a rundown between 2nd and 3rd on the play to end the inning.

7. Cruz & Hill Blow the Save

Fernando Cruz came in for the tough save — with the inherited runner on 2nd in the bottom of the 10th.

He immediately threw a wild pitch to put a runner on 3rd with nobody out, then walked 3rd baseman Luis Rengifo to put 1st and 3rd, nobody out.

But he got Gary Sanchez to hit a shallow fly to right for the 1st out, holding the runners.

Jackson Chourio reached on an infield single to Caballero at shortstop however, tying the game 2-2.

Tim Hill came in to try to keep it there, and got Brice Turang to ground the ball back to him — but Hill tried to get the runner at 3rd — the throw hitting the runner Rengifo in the head — and he was safe.

Instead of 2 outs and a runner at 3rd, it was 1 out with a runner at 3rd. William Contreras then hit a sac fly to Aaron Judge — Judge throwing a bullet home that was offline — for the old ballgame.

The Boxscore

https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401815277

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