CHICAGO — Gavin Sheets hit a career-high four hits and scored four runs, Korey Lee and Brooks Baldwin hit home runs and the Chicago White Sox gave interim manager Grady Sizemore his first win by crushing the New York Yankees 12-2 on Monday night after losing 24 of 25 games.
The White Sox posted season-highs in runs and 18 hits after losing their first two games under Sizemore, who took over Thursday after the White Sox fired Pedro Grifol. They had lost three straight games since the win over Oakland, ending an American League record 21-game losing streak.
Lee hit a two-run fourth against Yankees starter Luis Gil. Baldwin capped a six-run seventh with a three-run drive against Enyel De Los Santos that made it 11-2.
Sheets hit two-run RBI doubles in the first inning, against Tim Hill in the fifth and against De Los Santos in the seventh. He also scored in the inning on a single by Dominic Fletcher and scored a run on a single in the eighth inning.
Andrew Vaughn had four hits and scored twice, helping the White Sox knock off a team that had the best record in baseball in Baltimore.
New York’s Aaron Judge hit a run on a double in the first inning against rookie Ky Bush. He was just a few feet away from his 300th home run and a grand slam when he hit a fly into the warning track in the second inning.
Bush allowed two runs and six hits in 4 2/3 innings in his second major league appearance. The 24-year-old left-hander walked seven and threw 97 pitches after losing in his debut in Oakland last week.
Touki Toussaint (1-2) took the win as a substitute and recorded four outs.
Gil (12-6) threw 98 pitches in four innings, allowing four runs and seven hits. The 26-year-old right-hander managed two walks.
TRAINING ROOM
Yankees: 3B Jazz Chisholm Jr. left the game with a left elbow injury. He injured it on a diving pitch in the fifth inning and had to undergo further tests on Tuesday.
White Sox: The White Sox pulled CF Luis Robert Jr. from the lineup and gave him another day of rest after the team had a rare off day on Sunday. Robert missed two months earlier in the season with a strained right hip flexor. “I think we forget what he went through and how quickly he came back,” interim manager Grady Sizemore said.
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Yankees LHP Nestor Cortes (5-10, 4.42 ERA) is trying to rebound from one of his worst performances of the season, while White Sox RHP Jonathan Cannon (2-5, 3.91) is trying to win his second straight start. Cortes gave up a season-high six runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings in a loss to the Los Angeles Angels last week. Cannon went six innings in Oakland on Tuesday as the White Sox ended their record-tying American League losing streak at 21 games. ——
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