{"id":964051,"date":"2026-07-28T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/964051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:19:20","slug":"ali-sanchez-hits-his-1st-career-homer-as-the-yankees-beat-the-white-sox-9-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/964051\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali S\u00e1nchez hits his 1st career homer as the Yankees beat the White Sox 9-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO &#8212; Ali S\u00e1nchez hit a three-run shot for his first career homer and the New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox 9-5 on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series between playoff contenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ben Rice hit a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning, and New York put away the game with four more runs in the eighth. S\u00e1nchez had the big blow, a two-out drive to left field on a 3-2 fastball from Sean Newcomb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jazz Chisholm Jr. had two hits, two RBIs and two steals for <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-yankees-bellinger-judge-ae6b269ea30eee4798b1037e3cf30ece\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>. Jasson Dom\u00ednguez also had two hits and scored twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Yankees (60-46) won for the sixth time in eight games and pulled within 2 1\/2 games of idle Tampa Bay for the AL East lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Colson Montgomery had three hits for Chicago (55-50), which committed three errors in its third loss in four games. Noah Schultz allowed three runs in 3 1\/3 innings for the AL Central leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">New York grabbed a 5-4 lead on Rice&#8217;s two-out single off Bryan Hudson (3-4). Rice drove in Amed Rosario, who led off with a pinch-hit double and advanced when catcher Edgar Quero committed a throwing error on a pickoff attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Brent Headrick (6-1) pitched 1 1\/3 scoreless innings for the win. David Bednar got one out for his 21st save, striking out Chase Meidroth with two on after shortstop Anthony Volpe dropped Montgomery&#8217;s high popup, allowing Sam Antonacci to score on the error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chicago jumped in front with three runs in the first against Max Fried. Montgomery hit an RBI single and scored on Braden Montgomery&#8217;s two-out triple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Randal Grichuk sparked the fast start with a leadoff double to left. Max Schuemann had an opportunity to cut down Grichuk at second, but Chisholm wasn&#8217;t able to catch his one-hop throw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chisholm then had the key hit in New York&#8217;s four-run fourth, a tying two-run double off Chris Murphy. Chisholm alertly swiped third on Quero&#8217;s throw to Murphy after a pitch and scored on Spencer Jones&#8217; grounder to second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The White Sox rallied in the fifth. Miguel Vargas doubled and scored on Colson Montgomery&#8217;s single off Tim Hill, tying it at 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gerrit Cole (3-5, 3.92 ERA) starts for New York on Tuesday night, and left-hander Anthony Kay (7-4, 4.21) pitches for the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP MLB: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Ali S\u00e1nchez hit a three-run shot for his first career homer and the New York Yankees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":964052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[591,1266,1822,61637,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-964051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116996156140750593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964051","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=964051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}