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Yankees 3, White Sox 0: Two hits against the 27th man

Bullet-point recap:

*Randy Vásquez was the Yankees' emergency starter, but the White Sox lineup experienced the crisis. Stepping in for Nestor Cortes, Vásquez allowed just four baserunners over 5⅔ innings for his first MLB win in his second career start.

*Vásquez walked Clint Frazier to start the game, then allowed a single to Eloy Jiménez with two outs in the first, and then he retired 15 in a row, mostly by mundane outs.

*The only other White Sox threat came after two outs in the sixth, when Gavin Sheets singled and Luis Robert Jr. was plunked. That's when Aaron Boone pulled Vásquez for Ron Marinaccio, and Marinaccio carried the game through eighth without a hit.

*On the other side, Mike Clevionger gave up a pair of homers for the three runs on his tab -- a two-run shot by Gleyber Torres in the fourth, and a solo shot by Billy McKinney in the fifth.

*The Torres homer was especially painful, because it looked like Sheets cut down Willie Calhoun trying to stretch a leadoff single into a double. Sheets made a great throw, but the replay showed Elvis Andrus whiffing on the tag, so Calhoun was reinstated at second, and Torres homered on the next pitch.

*Clevinger looked like Clevinger otherwise, throwing 5⅔ innings while only striking out two.

*Aaron Bummer stranded two runners while going four up and four down, and Garrett Crochet worked a clean eighth on 15 pitches.

*Adding injury to insult, Jiménez left the game in the ninth inning after tweaking his leg grounding into what should've been an easy double play, except Torres fired the turn into the dugout to keep the inning alive. Temporarily.

*The White Sox split the doubleheader after winning the opener and can claim they took the series, but it would've been more satisfying if they reversed the order.

Record: 28-36 | Box score | Statcast

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