Here are three takeaways from the sequence at Yankee Stadium, the place Chicago White Sox gained two of the three video games in opposition to the New York Yankees.
1. Tim Anderson silenced the gang.
Tim Anderson heard boos when he stepped to the plate in the course of the second sport of Sunday’s doubleheader.
The Sox shortstop silenced the gang in a memorable style within the eighth inning, connecting for a three-run dwelling run. It served as an exclamation level in a 5-0 victory.
“That speaks huge to the character of Tim and what we’re trying to be in this clubhouse, and that’s a family,” Sox pitcher Michael Kopech stated. “That was one of many cooler issues I’ve seen, watching a complete crowd that’s exhibiting low class towards him, booing him, calling him ‘Jackie’ and all that stuff, after which hitting a homer and placing us proper again in an excellent place to win.
“Got nothing but respect for him.”
As he headed for dwelling plate, Anderson did a signature transfer, giving the “shh” sign.
Anderson had three hits a day after phrases have been exchanged with New York Yankees third baseman/designated hitter Josh Donaldson in the course of the third inning of Saturday’s sport.
“Basically tried to call me Jackie Robinson: ‘What’s up, Jackie?’” Anderson stated. “He made the comment and it was disrespectful and I don’t think it was called for. It was unnecessary.”
The benches cleared earlier than Donaldson’s fifth-inning at-bat after he and Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal had a dialog.
Donaldson admitted after the sport, “I called him Jackie,” later including: “I thought that was a joke between him and I because we have talked about it before. … He’s called himself Jackie Robinson (referencing a 2019 Sports Illustrated story). That’s why I thought it was funny between us.”
It was an evidence that rubbed Sox nearer Liam Hendriks the improper manner.
“Usually you have inside jokes with people you get along with, not people that don’t get along at all,” Hendriks stated earlier than Sunday’s doubleheader.
Sox supervisor Tony La Russa was shocked by the boos Sunday evening, however undoubtedly not the outcomes from Anderson, who’s slashing .359/.400/.517 with 5 dwelling runs and 18 RBIs.
“Think about the game he had under those circumstances,” La Russa stated. “That made it special. But he’s had that kind of game a lot this year.”
2. Michael Kopech capped an incredible day of pitching.
The Sox positioned Kopech on the paternity listing Tuesday. He returned after the start of his second son, Vander, on Friday.
“My mind hasn’t been on baseball until (Saturday),” Kopech stated.
He added with amusing, “That probably helped me quite a bit.”
Kopech had an unimaginable outing in Game 2 of the doubleheader, permitting one hit with six strikeouts and two walks in seven innings. He retired the primary 17 batters earlier than Rob Brantly broke up his good sport with a two-out double within the sixth.
“I was still doing everything that I needed to do back in Chicago, throwing and working out,” Kopech stated of his week. “But I was definitely more focused on the baby I had on the way, and he came and he was healthy. And then I got a call that I needed to come back, and I showed up and tried to get refocused.”
Kopech retired the ultimate 13 batters in his May 15 begin in opposition to the Yankees at Guaranteed Rate Field. Combine that with Sunday, and that’s 30 straight hitters.
“I felt like I got into a rhythm the last time I faced them and I started off in a rhythm today and tried not to lose that,” Kopech stated. “I like to face a good team and they’re a great team.”
He lowered his ERA to 1.29 in incomes his first win of the season.
“My man just had a baby the other day and I was telling him dad strength got him 10 extra pitches in that game,” Sox outfielder/first baseman Andrew Vaughn stated with amusing. “It was awesome to see that. He’s been throwing the ball so well and we finally got him some runs.”
Kopech capped an incredible day of pitching for the Sox.
Johnny Cueto began it off in Game 1, permitting six hits in six-plus scoreless innings. Joe Kelly entered with two runners on and no outs within the seventh, figuring out of the jam with out permitting a run. Kendall Graveman bounced again after surrendering a solo homer to Aaron Judge, giving the Sox an opportunity to win earlier than Hendriks closed out the Game 1 win with two strikeouts in an ideal ninth.
3. The Sox nonetheless have work to do with RISP.
The Sox loaded the bases with no outs within the fifth inning within the second sport of the doubleheader.
Two drive performs on the plate and a strikeout later, they got here up empty.
But they lastly broke unfastened within the eighth.
“I was looking at the scoreboard, I said ‘We’ve got eight hits, let’s do something right here,’” Vaughn stated. “And then some good things happened.”
The Sox scored 5 runs on 5 hits. The runs, RBI singles by Vaughn and Reese McGuire, and Anderson’s three-run homer, all got here with two outs.
The Sox additionally had clutch hits late in first sport of the doubleheader, with AJ Pollock breaking the tie within the ninth with a solo shot and Adam Engel driving in Vaughn with a double.
The Sox know they’ve work to do with runners in scoring place. They are eleventh within the American League with a .227 common in that class (73-for-322).
They went 3-for-13 in that division Saturday and 2-for-8 in Game 1 of Sunday’s doubleheader. They have been 4-for-15 in Game 2, with the eighth-inning breakthrough main the way in which, serving to the Sox end 5-3 on their two-city highway journey.
“It’s one of those things you can laugh about later, all the opportunities that we had,” La Russa stated. “We’re going to work on that man on third (situation). We’ll get better. And then to explode like that (in the eighth), this game you can never figure it.”
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