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Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham hits a grand slam in front of White Sox catcher Edgar Quero in the fourth inning on Aug. 29, 2025, at Rate Field. (Daniel Bartel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nYoendrys G\u00f3mez walked the first three batters in Friday\u2019s start against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
It was the beginning of a wild night for Chicago White Sox pitchers.<\/p>\n
The Sox walked nine Yankees in a 10-2 loss in front of 28,069 at Rate Field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWalks were a problem,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cYou know that coming in with the Yankees offense, they control the zone extremely well and they do a lot of damage. When you walk guys and give them free passes, it\u2019s just a matter of time before they make you pay for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
G\u00f3mez, who spent portions of three seasons with the Yankees (2023-25), allowed five runs (four earned) on two hits with six strikeouts and six walks in four innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I was trying to be just too perfect, and that led to me missing pitches and missing my spots,\u201d Gomez said through an interpreter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just tried to compete. I wasn\u2019t able to command my pitches, a lot of walks. Everybody knows they have very good hitters. But I just have to attack the hitters.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sox have lost four straight, allowing at least 10 runs in each of their last three games. They have been outscored 37-11 during the skid. At 48-87, the Sox are a season-worst 39 games under .500.<\/p>\n
G\u00f3mez overcame the three walks in the first to limit the Yankees to just one run in the inning. He wasn\u2019t as fortunate in the fourth. G\u00f3mez walked two in that inning ahead of a grand slam by Trent Grisham, which put the Yankees ahead 5-0.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince he\u2019s come back and started for us, he\u2019s had really good command,\u201d Venable said of G\u00f3mez. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the things he really went to work on when he was down in Triple A and has been really good. Against a tough team, they make really good swing decisions. They really forced him into the zone, he just wasn\u2019t able to make the adjustment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham hits a grand slam in front of White Sox catcher Edgar Quero in the fourth inning on Aug. 29, 2025, at Rate Field. (Daniel Bartel\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Reliever Grant Taylor walked the first two batters he faced in the sixth. Both scored during a three-run inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just struggling with his stuff,\u201d Venable said of Taylor, who has allowed six earned runs in his last two outings while pitching two-thirds of an inning. \u201cObviously the command is a big thing for him, just being in the zone. He\u2019s got such good stuff, if he throws strikes, he\u2019s going to be effective. When he doesn\u2019t have his command, we see what happens. And that\u2019s the case with everybody, really.\u201d<\/p>\n
While G\u00f3mez struggled, Yankees starter Carlos Rod\u00f3n fared much better against his former team.\u00a0The left-hander allowed one run on seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks in six innings in his first time pitching at his former home park since 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought early we just missed some pitches in the zone,\u201d Venable said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say he was effectively wild, but it kind of felt like that where we were chasing him around the zone. He was just effective in a lot of different ways and we couldn\u2019t string anything together.\u201d<\/p>\n
A first-round pick in 2014<\/a>, Rod\u00f3n went 42-38 with a 3.79 ERA and 710 strikeouts in 121 games (116 starts) during seven seasons with the Sox from 2015-21. He earned All-Star honors<\/a> in 2021, a year in which he also tossed a no-hitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI was 22 years old when I made my debut for the White Sox,\u201d Rod\u00f3n told reporters covering the Yankees. \u201cPitched in some big games, pitched in some playoff games. I think the best thing about it was the staff over there and my teammates, you know, the team we had, we were all really close and we had a really good time together.\u201d<\/p>\n Friday marked Rod\u00f3n\u2019s second regular-season start against the Sox. He allowed two runs and struck out six in six innings on May 19, 2024<\/a> during a 7-2 Yankees win at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n He\u00a0received a nice ovation early in Friday\u2019s game after the Sox played a video tribute recognizing his time with the club. Rod\u00f3n waved to the crowd in acknowledgment.<\/p>\n \u201cI was grateful for it,\u201d Rod\u00f3n said of the video.<\/p>\n The Sox had 12 hits Friday but went 3-for-12 with runners in scoring position. Colson Montgomery went 1-for-4 in his return to the lineup after missing two games because of left side soreness. His hit was a single as his consecutive games with a home run<\/a> streak ended at four.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to keep pushing,\u201d said catcher Edgar Quero, who went 2-for-4 with a walk. \u201cWe know we have a couple guys out of the lineup (with Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> and Miguel Vargas<\/a> on the injured list). It\u2019s part of the game. But we\u2019ve got to go out, we\u2019ve got to keep pushing. We have to try to finish the season really good.\u201d<\/p>\n Originally Published: August 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoendrys G\u00f3mez walked the first three batters in Friday\u2019s start against the New York Yankees. It was the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1274,5386,1818,1370,1266,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-186700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}