{"id":5545,"date":"2026-07-28T07:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:36:59","slug":"yankees-offense-gets-help-from-unlikely-source-to-pick-up-max-fried-in-win-over-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"Yankees offense gets help from unlikely source to pick up Max Fried in win over White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHICAGO \u2014 As he tried to explain how the Yankees might possibly survive four to six weeks without Cody Bellinger \u2014 on top of ongoing, indefinite absences from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton \u2014 Aaron Boone reached for a cliche.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s going to take all of us,\u201d the manager said a few hours before first pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Trite as it was, the Yankees brought it to fruition, at least for one night, as their hitters picked up their pitching staff and defense for a change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On a day when Max Fried put the Yankees in an early three-run hole, and the defense threatened to wreak havoc early and late, what had been a scuffling lineup broke out to capture a 9-5 win over the White Sox on Monday night at Rate Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coming off a weekend in which they scored a combined eight runs in three games against the Phillies \u2014 putting plenty of stress on their pitchers with little to no margin for error \u2014 the Yankees (60-46) used a pair of four-run innings to claim the series opener against the first-place White Sox (55-50) and win for the 10th time in their last 14 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just shows we\u2019re never going to give up,\u201d said Jazz Chisholm Jr., who bounced back from an early defensive miscue to tally two hits, two RBIs, two runs and two steals. \u201cWe\u2019re going out there trying to play every game like Game 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always good when the team is hitting and bringing in runs and everybody\u2019s up and down the lineup doing their thing. It just makes baseball a lot more fun and feels a lot more loose.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

An offensive attack capped off by Ali S\u00e1nchez\u2019s first career home run \u2014 a three-run shot in the eighth inning \u2014 allowed the Yankees to score more than five runs for only the third time in their last 33 games since back-to-back double-digit outbursts against these White Sox back on June 16-17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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They also had not won a game by more than three runs since July 9, and while Camilo Doval and fielding errors from Jos\u00e9 Caballero and Anthony Volpe threatened that feat in the ninth inning, David Bednar came in to nail down the final out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t pretty by any means tonight, but a lot of winning things did go on with everyone,\u201d Boone said. \u201cThe \u201983 White Sox had a slogan, \u2018Winning Ugly.\u2019 But they all count. \u2026 We know we\u2019ve got to play cleaner than that, but a really gritty effort by a lot of different people in that room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite some shoddy defense, the Yankees delivered in the clutch when they were still clinging to a 5-4 lead in the seventh inning as Colson Montgomery tried to score all the way from first on a two-out double from Chase Meidroth. But left fielder Max Schuemann \u2014 starting a second straight game for Bellinger, who may be out until September with a Grade 2 hamstring strain \u2014 started a strong relay to Volpe and S\u00e1nchez to nail Montgomery at the plate to end the frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Yankees then broke the game open in the next halfinning, which began with a Jasson Dom\u00ednguez infield single, a Volpe single and a Chisholm bunt single that scored Dom\u00ednguez on a throwing error. S\u00e1nchez delivered the big blow with a three-run blast off lefty Sean Newcomb that made it a 9-4 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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