The Yankees certainly did not play as they had a hangover of their postseason party last night. They rolled out of bed and steamed the white SOX tonight, all damage caused in the second and third innings. New York Starter Max Fried ensured that Chicago never sniffed a comeback. Bronx Bombers 8, South Siders 1. That’s the story.
How do more Fraser Ellard did it, do you ask? The Southpaw did not even take a collection. In the first he walked away the bases full of anyone, and somehow succeeded in wringing out. He let Giancarlo Stanton fly away and I spray Ben Rice. Then it was time for Jonathan Cannon, fresh from the plane from Charlotte, to save him by blowing Paul Goldschmidt. Disaster averted, but just just.
In the second half of the second inning, Cannon’s happiness ran out. Anthony Volpe doubled, Trent Grisham ran and then ran on Aaron Judge, who definitely erased a first-pitch Fastball for his 50th Homer of the Year. Four straight seasons with 50-plus for the captain, now shoulder to shoulder with Babe Ruth on the list of the Yankees of all time. That is a rare air there.
For the third frame it was the same story. Rice tripled, Goldschmidt hit a single, Jazz Chisholm Jr. Doubled and suddenly it is 5-1. The righthander eventually settled for a few innings and only gave up a single to Bellinger, but the damage was caused. Cannon’s last rule: five points, six hits, a walk, six strikeouts. It was definitely not his night. Well, actually, if you keep track of it, it has not been his night since the beginning of July.
Tyler Alexander then mopped two innings. He kept the fort in the sixth and seventh and fortunately kept the Yankees of it to stack. Cam Bader got the ball for the eighth and he was downright terrible. With two he walked McMahon and then Grisham launched a two-run shot to the middle. Judge followed with his second bomb of the night, and it was now good out of reach, 8-1.
The good guys have managed their only point in the second. Miguel Vargas hit a base, Colson Montgomery encouraged him to go to third with a single and Lenyn Sosa cashed in with a pocket fly. Corey Julks reached a McMahon Misfire, but Brooks Baldwin flew away and Taylor sniffed. That was the sum of the violation.
Fried captured the SOX bats in a sleeper, holds the rest of the road and got two hits: a Baldwin single and a Montgomery Ground-Rule Double. Chicago hit 0-out-5 with Risp. In the last two frames, the Yankee Bullpen coughed only a two-out single to Sosa in the ninth, and the pale hose hoped to their third straight 100-Loss campaign.
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