SAN FRANCISCO – The waiting game continues for Devin Williams.

With still no word as to whether he’ll land that elusive first invitation to the All-Star Game, the right-hander slid from his normal setup role back into the closer’s spot against the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night.

And the beat went on. Williams set the side down in order, shrugging off a runner on third with only one out, to seal a 3-2 Milwaukee Brewers victory in 10 innings at Oracle Park.

It was the 26th consecutive scoreless appearance posted by Williams, who shifted roles with usual closer Josh Hader – an all-star for the fourth time – unavailable due to workload.

“The last two months didn’t help?” Williams said when asked if he thought his latest appearance was another piece of evidence that might sway the powers that be that he deserves to take part in his first Midsummer Classic, which will be played Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.

He has only a few more days for other National League pitchers to drop out, which certainly will happen depending on whether they pitch leading into the game or, as in Hader’s case, decide they’d rather use the break to spend time with family.

San Francisco’s Carlos Rodón, not Williams, was named an all-star when Hader bowed out.

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“I have to keep doing it and doing it again and again?” Williams continued. “I don’t have any control over that. All I can do is keep putting up zeros and that’s where my head’s at. If I don’t get to go, I don’t get to go.

“It is what it is.”

Clearly, Williams is frustrated – and he probably should be considering his body of work.

After sandwiching a couple flyouts around a strikeout to close out the Giants, Williams had lowered his earned run average to 1.77 and his WHIP to 1.04 with 59 strikeouts in 35⅔ innings over a team-high 39 appearances.

The save was his career-high sixth, and he’s also 2-0 with a major-league-leading 23 holds to his credit.

“I felt good enough to go today,” Williams said. “If we had the lead, I wanted the ball. The situation came, and I was able to deliver for the team.

“I approach every inning the same way. I try to attack them and just try and get three outs before they score. It’s the same thing I always do.”

The strikeout, of No. 9 hitter Austin Wynns, came after Mike Yastrzemski – the runner on second to start the bottom of the 10th – stole third with one out.

“I didn’t have to worry about him at second anymore,” he said. “Just, full attention to the hitter and trying to get him out without letting that run score.”

It was a terrific pitching performance by everyone involved, beginning with 7⅓ innings from starter Corbin Burnes.

Hoby Milner and Trevor Gott (2-2) combined for 1⅔ scoreless in a 2-2 game, and when Jonathan Davis hit a dribbler up the third-base line that scored Christian Yelich with the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th, it was Williams Time.

He got the job done with his usual fastball-changeup recipe, although the velocity on his fastball maxed out at 93 mph, the result of pitching three consecutive games.

“I mean, what he’s doing is incredible,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “It’s dominating, really. He’s a elite reliever in the game. Not in the league – the game. He’s an elite reliever.”

The run Williams is on feels much like the one he embarked on for the entirety of the two-month pandemic season, when he posted video-game numbers en route to being named the National League’s rookie of the year.

“Personally, I feel like I’m always confident going into a game,” he said. “I think if I execute the way I can, things will be in my favor and will turn out well for me. So, that’s where my head’s at.

“Just, executing every pitch that I can.”

Logic would dictate Williams doesn’t pitch Friday and maybe not Saturday, either, due to his recent workload. That potentially would leave Sunday’s game as one last opportunity to bolster his résumé, depending on how thing play out.

But he also could learn before then that he indeed will be invited to Los Angeles as a replacement.

Williams was asked if he would be nervous waiting for some good news over the next few days.

“Nervous about what? I already didn’t make it,” he said. “The only thing I can do is just keep pitching. There’s really nothing to be nervous about. I don’t think that even if I go out and give up a run that it changes the case that I have.

“But like I said before, I don’t have any control over that.”