Yankees and Astros kept the playoff-style heat alive as a tense, back-and-forth battle in Houston swung on a bullpen miscue. Devin Williams entered tied 4-4 and allowed four earned runs in 2/3 of an inning, setting up Houston’s late surge and Boone’s ejection in the eighth. Jeremy Peña’s sixth-inning homer flipped momentum, while Cody Bellinger’s ninth-inning blast wasn’t enough to erase the deficit. New York still holds a comfortable wild-card cushion, but the two-game set underscored how title race pressure can tilt late in the season.