New York Yankees vs Chicago White Sox Match Player Stats On Jun 29, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 30, 2017

CHICAGO -- James Shields earned his first victory since April 6, throwing a season-high 6 1/3 innings as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 4-3 in a rain-delayed series finale at Guaranteed Rate Field that went into the early hours of Friday.

The victory gave Chicago (34-44) a split in the four-game series. The Yankees (42-35) fell one-game behind first-place Boston in the American League East.

Shields (2-1) made his third start since returning from the disabled list on June 18. He allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits, walked three and struck out two.

Yankees starter right-hander Luis Cessa (0-3) gave up four runs (two earned) on five hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out one.

Chicago's bullpen worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings. Closer David Robertson allowed a single but worked a scoreless ninth, striking out slugger Aaron Judge to seal his 12th save.

Willy Garcia had two hits, including a two-run double, and Jose Abreu added two hits for the White Sox.

New York leadoff hitter Brett Gardner went 2-for-5.

The Yankees scored an unearned run for a first-inning lead when Gardner reached on an infield single and Judge walked. Didi Gregorius grounded to first on a fielder's choice, and Gardner scored from second on a throwing error by White Sox first baseman Abreu.

New York right fielder Dustin Fowler left the game with two out in the bottom of the first while chasing a liner down the first-base line, hitting his right knee on a low fence as the ball went foul. Fowler hopped away from the low fence and his leg gave out.

Fowler sustained an open rupture of his right patellar tendon and underwent surgery Thursday night at a local hospital.

Chicago evened the score with a second-inning unearned run as Gary Sanchez, who reached on a fielder's choice, scored on Adam Engel's long fly to right with two out that was misplayed by Rob Refsnyder, Fowler's replacement.

White Sox catcher Omar Narvaez then singled home Engel for a 2-1 lead.

New York third baseman Ronald Torreyes made it 2-2 in the fourth with a two-out single to left to score Jacoby Ellsbury from second. Torreyes was thrown out while trying to stretch the hit to a double.

Garcia's two-out double to left drove in Sanchez and Engel for a 4-2 Chicago lead.

White Sox left fielder Melky Cabrera robbed Judge of a homer in the fifth with a perfectly timed jump and catch at the fence. It would have been Judge's major league-leading 28th long ball.

Cessa faced runners on first and second with one out in the fifth, but Gardner's diving catch for a second out prevented at least one run. Kevan Smith loaded the bases with a two-out infield single and that spelled the end of Cessa's night.

Left hander Chasen Shreve got Engel to pop out foul to end the threat.

The Yankees climbed to within 4-3 in the sixth thanks to Ellsbury's leadoff triple and Austin Romine's one-out fielder's choice grounder.

The game didn't start until 10 p.m. CT, a delay of nearly three hours as evening rains swept through Chicago.

NOTES: The Yankees announced a flurry of transactions prior to the game, calling up OF Dustin Fowler and 1B Chris Carter, moving INF Miguel Andujar to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, transferring 1B Greg Bird (right ankle bruise) to the 60-day disabled list and designating OF Mason Williams for assignment. ... Yankees RHP Michael Pineda (7-4, 4.12 ERA) is scheduled to pitch the series opener at AL West-leading Houston on Friday, facing Astros RHP Lance McCullers Jr. (7-1, 2.53 ERA). ... The White Sox remain home to open a three-game weekend series against Texas as they send RHP Mike Pelfrey (3-6, 3.73 ERA) against Rangers RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx (3-0, 3.68 ERA). ... Chicago OF Avisail Garcia had an MRI on Thursday after sustaining a left knee injury late in Wednesday's 12-3 loss to the Yankees. Garcia said he hopes he is sidelined just a few days. ... The White Sox placed RHP Jake Petricka (right elbow strain) on the 10-day disabled list and called up RHP Juan Minaya from Triple-A Charlotte.