Bullet-point recap, as I watched and followed this game from a few different locations this afternoon. Fill any details/visuals I might've missed.
*The White Sox won a series at Yankee Stadium for a second straight year after going 11 consecutive seasons without one, and Tim Anderson made the difference. With the bases loaded and one out in the fourth inning, he rode too-high Masahiro Tanaka sinker into the first row of the short porch in right center to turn a 2-0 deficit into a 4-2 lead.
*Anderson came up with the sacks packed, even after Yoan Moncada was cut down at second by Aaron Judge on his rocket to the right-field corner to start the inning. Jose Abreu doubled -- although didn't run out of the box initially because he thought it was hooking foul -- followed by Yonder Alonso and Eloy Jiménez walks.
*The Sox had a wild day on the basepaths. They stole five bases on Kyle Higashioka, including two by Abreu, one by James McCann, and Moncada and Leury García adding one.
*They also ran into three outs. Moncada was out twice at second, one by the Judge throw and one by a pitchout in the ninth inning. Yolmer Sanchez had a legit TOOTBLAN, failing to slide into second because he thought there wasn't a throw or something? It resulted in this:
*Carlos Rodon picked up the win with six respectable innings after four looked like a slog. A one-out walk turned into a 1-0 deficit in the first inning after Luke Voit scored Judge from first on a double to the right-center gap. In the third, a leadoff walk came around to score on a pair of one-out singles. Rodón had a pitch count of 68 after three innings and 88 after four, thanks in large part to 27 Yankee foul balls.
*Don Cooper came out after the second of those singles in the third inning for a rather heated mound visit in which he did most of the talking. The message must have registered. Rodón retired the last 11 he faced. Improved economy helped him get through six, as he needed only 44 pitches over the final three innings.
*The bullpen also held up with minimal drama. Jace Fry struck out the only batter he faced, Nate Jones worked around a one-out single with a double play, Kelvin Herrera pitched around a two-out error by Anderson (his throw on the run pulled Alonso ever so slightly off the bag), and Alex Colomé retired the side in the ninth for the save.
*The Sox tacked on another run in the fifth that the pitching staff didn't need. Sanchez doubled and came around on an Abreu sac fly three batters later.
*Though Moncada made two outs on the basepaths, he got on two other times. He went 3-for-4 with a double and a walk, and everything was raked.
*Daniel Palka, on the other hand, is now 0-for-28 after two groundouts and a strikeout in this one.
Record: 5-9 | Box score
