Yankees lose to Brewers in 10th as Tim Hill's mental error proves costly

MILWAUKEE — William Contreras singled home the tying run in the eighth inning and hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the 10th as the Brewers beat the Yankees, 4-3, on Saturday night.

After Ryan McMahon’s two-out RBI single on an 0-and-2 pitch from Aaron Ashby put the Yankees ahead 3-2 in the top of the 10th, Milwaukee scored twice in the bottom half to give Ashby (7-0) the MLB lead in wins.

Jackson Chourio’s one-out infield single off Fernando Cruz (3-1) tied it in the 10th and put runners at first and second. Tim Hill then got a comebacker from Brice Turang to the first-base side of the mound. Perhaps forgetting the number of outs, instead of tossing to first for an easy second out, Hill tried to throw out the lead runner at third and hit Luis Rengifo to load the bases. “My internal clock told me third,’’ Hill said. “I made a good pitch and then a bad decision afterwards. Feel like my instincts told me third. My instincts were wrong.”

Contreras followed with a fly ball that easily brought home Rengifo as Aaron Judge’s throw home was up the third-base line.

The Yankees (26-14) wasted a brilliant performance from Cam Schlittler. He got struck in the leg by a 108.5-mph liner off the bat of Contreras in the first but stayed in the game and allowed two hits in six scoreless innings, lowering his MLB-leading ERA to 1.35.

Paul Goldschmidt led off the game with a home run and added an RBI single in the fourth for the Yankees, who struck out 14 times on Friday and 15 on Saturday.

Jake Bauers hit a 420-foot shot to right-center off Brent Headrick in the seventh. Turang singled off Camilo Doval with two outs in the eighth, stole second and scored on Contreras’ single.