New York Yankees slug their way to victory in the Windy City

 The New York Yankees defeated the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night at Guaranteed Rate Field in

Chicago, Illinois and the final score was 15-7.  Luis Gil started for the Yankees and he pitched ok.  

Giancarlo Stanton led the offense with three hits and six RBI.  

Gil pitched four innings giving up five hits and four runs with two walks and five strikeouts.  Miguel 

Castro pitched a perfect inning, Lucas Luetge pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a 

strikeout and Jonathan Loaisiga pitched an inning giving up a hit and two runs with a walk.  Loaisiga 

picked up his first win of the season.  Chad Green pitched two innings giving up a hit and a walk with 

two strikeouts.  

Dylan Cease started for the White Sox and pitched four innings giving up six hits and six runs with

two walks and 11 strikeouts.  Jose Ruiz pitched an inning giving up a hit, Ryan Burr pitched two innings 

giving up two hits and a run and Joe Kelly pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and five runs with four 

walks and a strikeout.  Kelly took his first loss of the season and Tanner Banks pitched 1 1/3 innings 

giving up five hits and three runs with a strikeout.  

DJ LeMahieu had three hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Aaron Judge had two hits, four RBI and drew a

walk and Anthony Rizzo had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Stanton had three hits and six RBI and drew

a walk, Josh Donaldson had two hits and three RBI and Joey Gallo had a hit and drew a walk.  Marwin

Gonzalez drew a walk, Kyle Higashioka had two hits and Gleyber Torres had a hit and drew a walk.  

LeMahieu hit two doubles, Rizzo hit a triple and Stanton hit two homeruns.  Judge and Donaldson each 

also hit a homer.  The Yankees were 6-12 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Rizzo

and Luetge each committed an error.  Gil had a pickoff.  

Tim Anderson drew a walk, Yoan Moncada had a hit and three RBI and Luis Robert had a hit.  Yasmani

Grandal drew a walk, Gavin Sheets had a hit and drew a walk and AJ Pollock had two hits, an RBI and 

drew a walk.  Adam Engel had a hit, Leury Garcia had two hits and two RBI.  Pollock and Sheets each hit

a double and Moncada hit a homerun.  The White Sox were 4-11 with runners in scoring position and

left six men on base.  Garcia was picked off and Grandal had a passed ball.  

In the first Stanton hit a two-run homer giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead.  In the bottom of the second 

Pollock hit an RBI double, Garcia hit a two-run single and it was 3-2 White Sox.  In the third Rizzo

hit an RBI triple tying the game at three.  Stanton hit another two-run homerun giving the Yankees a 

5-3 lead.  In the fourth LeMahieu hit an RBI double pushing the lead to 6-3.  In the bottom of the fourth

a wild pitch cut the lead to 6-4.  In the seventh Judge hit a solo homer extending the lead to 7-4.  In the 

bottom of the seventh Moncada hit a three-run homer tying the game at seven.  In the eighth Judge hit 

a two-run single giving the Yankees a 9-7 lead.  Stanton hit a two-run single and Donaldson hit a 

three-run homerun.  In the ninth Judge hit a sac fly making it 15-7 and that was the final score.

The two teams will play game two of four on Friday night.