Three Runs Did Not Survive the Fourth
Chicago opened with the kind of inning that usually gets a young team through the evening with a little confidence. Colson Montgomery singled home the first run, Chase Meidroth added a sacrifice fly and Braden Montgomery tripled in another. The White Sox led 3-0 before New York recorded an out on offense.
The Yankees waited until the fourth and erased the entire margin at once. Anthony Volpe brought home the first run on a groundout. Jazz Chisholm Jr. doubled in two more, then scored on Spencer Jones’ groundout. Four runs without a home run turned an uncomfortable night into a lead.
Chicago’s Reply Needed Another Reply
Colson Montgomery tied the game with an RBI single in the fifth. New York did not panic or wait for a dramatic ninth. Ben Rice put the Yankees back ahead with a seventh-inning single.
The eighth supplied separation. Chisholm reached on a bunt single that scored Jasson Dominguez, with a throwing error allowing the play to continue. Ali Sanchez then hit his first homer of the season, a three-run shot that transformed a 6-4 game into a 9-4 lead.
Sanchez had one hit, but it was the night’s largest swing. Chisholm finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs. Rice added two hits, and the Yankees finished with 10 as a team. New York’s offense did not depend on one repeated formula; it used groundouts, a double, singles, a bunt and finally the homer that ended the discussion.
Nine Runs Came From Behind
The Desk’s Comeback Run Total was nine: every Yankees run arrived after Chicago established its 3-0 lead.
That matters because the White Sox did not simply hand over the game once. They tied it again in the fifth and forced New York to build a second lead. The Yankees answered both versions of adversity and made the later response larger than the first.
Chicago also collected 10 hits. Colson Montgomery went 3-for-4 and drove in two, but the White Sox never produced an extra-base hit after Braden Montgomery’s first-inning triple. Their early burst became a target. New York’s varied offense kept creating new ones.
The Desk Has Ruled
The Yankees turn ordinary trouble into national programming, so a three-run first inning was always going to arrive with dramatic lighting. Their answer was refreshingly practical. They tied the game without a homer, reclaimed the lead after Chicago’s response and used Sanchez’s shot only when it could convert tension into distance.
Chicago had the first statement and one useful rebuttal. New York owned every paragraph after that. Nine comeback runs are less a rally than a full rewrite, with Sanchez providing the closing line nobody could mistake.