For the primary time all season, the Yankees didn’t win a Gerrit Cole begin coming off of a loss. But Monday night time’s defeat towards the White Sox was hardly the ace’s fault.
The Yankees repeatedly squandered scoring alternatives as they fell 5-1 to lowly Chicago, stranding 13 males on base and twice leaving the bases loaded. The most electrical show of the night time got here from Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone, who was ejected after an eighth-inning screaming match with residence plate umpire Laz Diaz.
Struggling White Sox starter Dylan Cease walked seven batters, together with three consecutively to start the second inning. He labored out of the bases-loaded jam by coaxing shallow flyouts from Anthony Volpe and Ben Rortvedt and a sluggish groundout from Jake Bauers.
The Yankees drew not less than one stroll in every of the primary 4 innings towards Cease, who completed second in AL Cy Young Award voting final season however got here into Monday’s sport with a 4.61 ERA this 12 months. He served up seven runs over 1.2 innings in his earlier outing towards the Rangers.
Cease pitched 5.1 shutout frames and didn’t permit successful till the sixth inning, when DJ LeMahieu singled. Harrison Bader and Volpe adopted with back-to-back singles towards reliever Brent Honeywell, however a brief flyout by pinch-hitter Isiah Kiner-Falefa and one other Bauers groundout ended that bases-loaded risk.
The Yankees loaded the bases once more within the seventh inning with no one out, and a Billy McKinney sacrifice fly scored their lone run, making the rating 2-1. But with Gleyber Torres representing the tying run at third base, LeMahieu and Bader each struck out.
“We had our chances tonight and just couldn’t capitalize,” Boone said.
Boone’s animated argument with Diaz occurred after a third-strike name towards Volpe. Boone drew a line within the dust close to residence plate, then imitated Diaz’s strikeout name. He stated afterward his frustration stemmed from calls all night time.
The Yankees — who fell to the Astros, 9-7, on Sunday — entered Monday with a 9-0 file in video games began by Cole after a loss. Cole allowed 4 runs — two of which got here on an Andrew Vaughn second-inning residence run — over seven innings and fell to 10-3. The remaining two runs charged to Cole scored after Tommy Kahnle entered in aid.
The loss to the White Sox (46-68) got here a day after the Yankees drew 12 walks however left 15 males on base towards the Astros. The Yankees fell to 58-55 and are 5.5 video games again of the ultimate AL Wild Card spot.
Monday kicked off a nine-game street journey for the Yankees, who proceed their three-game sequence in Chicago on Tuesday night time with Clarke Schmidt (7-6, 4.35 ERA) set to pitch towards the White Sox’s Touki Toussaint (1-4, 3.92 ERA).
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