Yankees blow late lead to suffer brutal 11-inning loss to Reds

CINCINNATI — Carlos Rodón cruised for six innings and got enough help from his offense to leave with a three-run lead.

Then Jonathan Loáisiga quickly erased it, setting up another brutal extra-inning loss by the end of the night.

The Yankees finally scored in extra innings as the road team for the first time this season, but it still was not enough as they suffered a 5-4 loss to the Reds in 11 innings on Tuesday at Great American Ballpark.

Gavin Lux delivered the walk-off single against Mark Leiter Jr. in his second inning of work to sink the Yankees to 1-6 in extra innings this season.

With the Yankees bullpen nearly empty, Leiter came back out for the bottom of the 11th after holding the Reds at bay in the bottom of the 10th.

He had thrown 27 pitches on Monday night, but the Yankees had already used Loáisiga, Fernando Cruz, Luke Weaver and Devin Williams (for only nine pitches) to get through the ninth.

Ian Hamilton had thrown 34 pitches on Monday, Tim Hill had pitched on back-to-back days and JT Brubaker, the former starter who warmed up in the top of the 11th, had pitched two innings on Saturday.

Aaron Judge had given the Yankees a 4-3 lead in the top of the 11th, taking third on a groundout and then scoring on a wild pitch.

But the Reds quickly tied it in the bottom of the 11th as Elly De La Cruz hit an infield single and Spencer Steer followed with an RBI single.

In the top of the 10th, the Yankees loaded the bases on a pair of two-out walks for Judge, who popped out to end the threat.

After Weaver handled the eighth inning, Williams threw a nine-pitch bottom of the ninth.

The Yankees have not asked Williams, who threw 14 pitches on Sunday, to record more than three outs in any of his 33 appearances so far this season.

The Yankees became shorthanded in the ninth inning when Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected before the bottom of the frame for arguing a called first strike from the top half.

The third baseman was upset about the call in the moment and went on to strike out, then continued to voice his frustration as he took the field for the bottom of the ninth, which led to him getting tossed by home plate umpire Mark Wegner.

Aaron Boone had to hold Chisholm back from Wegner before he left the field, and then more Yankees had to intervene once Chisholm got back to the dugout.

Rodón scattered just four hits and one walk while striking out five across six shutout innings.

He retired the final eight batters he faced to get through the sixth inning on 88 pitches.

It marked the fewest pitches he has thrown in a start this season, though the brutally hot day — it was 91 degrees at first pitch — may have had something to do with that.