White Sox Rebound With 8-2 Win Over Yankees
CHICAGO (AP) -- Melky Cabrera and Alexei Ramirez homered and John Danks struck out eight as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees, 8-2, on Saturday night.
Danks (6-8) held the Yankees to a run and three hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked four but his eight strikeouts matched a season high and he has not lost in six consecutive starts.
Brian McCann hit his 17th homer for the AL East-leading Yankees, who could muster only five hits.
Tyler Saladino hit an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth to give the White Sox a two-run lead and knock Bryan Mitchell (0-1) out of the game. Diego Moreno replaced Mitchell and hit Jose Abreu with a pitch before he allowed Cabrera's three-run homer.
Abreu extended his hitting streak to 12 games with an RBI double in the first that put the White Sox ahead.
Ramirez homered in the second for his sixth of the season and fourth in 14 games for the White Sox, who have won eight of 10. He added an RBI double in the seventh.
Avisail Garcia robbed Didi Gregorius of a three-run home run with a leaping grab at the right-field wall in the third. John Ryan Murphy scored on a sacrifice fly to cut the White Sox lead to one.
Danks was called for a balk on a pickoff move after he walked Jacoby Ellsbury in the fifth. Danks then struck out Brett Gardner for his eighth K. He had been 2-3 with a 5.64 ERA in nine career starts against New York.
Mitchell allowed four runs and seven hits in four innings in his second career start and first of the season for New York.
The Yankees, who were 17-7 in July, put two on in both the fourth and sixth innings but were unable to score.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Yankees: RHP Nick Rumbelow was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and RHP Nick Goody was optioned to Triple-A before the game.
White Sox: OF J.B. Shuck (hamstring) went on the 15-day disabled list and RHP Scott Carroll was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte. ...With Shuck sidelined, manager Robin Ventura acknowledged the team will likely need to add a position player. OF Trayce Thompson might be a possibility. His brother, Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson, tweeted that Trayce reached the majors. Klay later deleted the tweet. ...OF Dayan Viciedo was signed to a minor-league contract and assigned to Triple A.
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