I listened to the entirety of today's game while doing yard work. What follows is a bullet-point recap. Fill in the details if Ed Farmer and Darrin Jackson didn't paint a vivid-enough picture.
*If this is CC Sabathia's last start against the White Sox, it went like so many others. Sabathia allowed just one single over five innings, spearheading a shutout, although he didn't last long enough to pick up his 20th win against the Sox (he's 19-7 lifetime). Four Yankees pitchers combined to face just 29 batters.
*Ivan Nova was nearly as stout, as he kept the Yankees off the board through six. He gave up a leadoff single, and that came around to score three batters and two pitchers later to tag him with the hard-luck loss.
*Yolmer Sanchez deserved the "L" more, as he booted a double-play ball that Jace Fry induced off the bat of Greg Bird. Two singles later -- the second one fisted over a drawn-in infield -- the Yankees had the only run they needed. They tacked on two more, including a squeeze bunt, before the inning ended.
*Sanchez now has four errors in 10 games, and two of them were double-play balls that changed the course of the game. The first one happened on Opening Day.
*The solace is that it's unclear how many innings the Sox would've needed to score a run. José Rondón's single to center in the third was the only hit, and Yonder Alonso was the only other Sox to reach, courtesy of a Tyler Wade error.
*Nova tossed the White Sox' first quality start since Carlos Rodon on April 3, and Burr overcame a rocky start to finish the last two innings to give the bullpen a breather.
*Wade made a diving stab to rob Welington Castillo of a single, and Brett Gardner charged to snag an Adam Engel blooper, but otherwise, it sounded like the Sox mostly made routine outs. They also struck out nine times to zero walks.
*Aaron Judge porched a fly in right to add a run in the eighth and kick it out of save territory.
*Tim Anderson's hitting streak ended at 12 games after going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, but he robbed Judge of a single with a diving catch on a 111-mph liner.
Record: 4-9 | Box score | Highlights
