Yankees' Reactions: Yankees' Bullpen Melts Down Late in Loss to the White Sox
Camilo Doval gives up a Grand Slam in the eighth inning, leading the Yankees to a loss.
NEW YORK — Instant Reactions to the Yankees’ (45-28) 5-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox (39-34) in the series finale at Yankee Stadium.
Ryan Weathers got the start for the Yankees and did not pitch badly. The one blemish on the line of Weathers was a solo home run off the bat of Colson Montgomery. Weathers pitched 6.1 innings, striking out eight batters.
Weathers had struggled in recent outings, and today was a big bounceback for him going forward.
The Yankees tied the game in the third inning on an opposite-field solo home run off the bat of Ryan McMahon. It was McMahon’s eighth home run of the season and 23rd RBI. Of his eight home runs, seven of them have been to the opposite field.
The Yankees had opportunities to score in the game but either wasted them or, for the case of Jose Caballero and Anthony Volpe, had bad baserunning cost the Yankees outs.
The Yankees bullpen collapsed in the eighth inning. After Fernando Cruz gave up a leadoff double in the top of the eighth inning, Aaron Boone went to Tim Hill. Hill came on and hit back-to-back batters to load the bases with no outs. After Hill got a strikeout, Boone went back to his pen, going to Camilo Doval.
On the first pitch Camilo Doval threw, he gave up a go-ahead. grand slam to Andrew Benintendi to give the White Sox the lead. Doval has struggled a lot against left-handers this season and got burned by another.
The Yankees’ offense only scored one run against Sean Burke, who was dialed in today over 7.1 innings of work. He struck out eight Yankees in that time and really shut down their lineup.
The Reds come to town tomorrow for a weekend series against the Yankees. Tomorrow’s game will be at 7:05pm on YES. Below are the probable starters for the series:
FRI: RHP Cam Schlittler (7-3, 1.82) vs. RHP Rhett Lowder (3-3, 4.60)
SAT: RHP Will Warren (7-1, 3.47) vs. LHP Andrew Abbott (4-4, 3.95)
SUN: RHP Gerrit Cole (2-1, 2.57) vs. RHP Chase Burns (8-1, 2.01)