The nightmare four-game series in Boston is over — so is the AL East race, effectively — and now the Yankees are in Chicago to take on another Sox team, the White Sox. Based on the current standings, the Yankees will play their next 27 games against teams without a winning record. The ChiSox are 41-70. Slightly better than the Royals and Orioles.
The series against the Red Sox is over. Nothing the Yankees can do about that now. The only thing they can do now is pound the crap out of some bad teams these next four weeks, and snap out of his .500 ball funk they’ve been in the last six weeks. The White Sox are very bad and on pace for 102 losses. Please treat them accordingly. Here are tonight’s lineups:
New York Yankees
1. LF Brett Gardner
2. RF Giancarlo Stanton
3. SS Didi Gregorius
4. CF Aaron Hicks
5. 2B Gleyber Torres
6. 1B Greg Bird
7. DH Miguel Andujar
8. 3B Neil Walker
9. C Kyle Higashioka
RHP Lance Lynn
Chicago White Sox
1. 2B Yoan Moncada
2. 3B Yolmer Sanchez
3. 1B Jose Abreu
4. DH Daniel Palka
5. RF Avisail Garcia
6. LF Nicky Delmonico
7. SS Tim Anderson
8. C Kevan Smith
9. CF Adam Engel
RHP Dylan Covey
There were scattered showers in the forecast earlier today, though those have cleared out, and there’s shouldn’t be much trouble getting this game in. First pitch is scheduled for 8:10pm ET and you can watch on YES locally and ESPN nationally. Enjoy the ballgame.
Injury Updates: Stanton is nursing a tight hamstring. That explains why he’s been the DH so much recently … Gary Sanchez (groin) has resumed light baseball activities down in Tampa. He’s hitting and doing some very light running. He hasn’t been cleared to run the bases or anything like that. The hope is Sanchez will be able to ramp up his workouts and take full-fledged batting practice later this week … J.A. Happ (hand, foot, and mouth disease) is “out of the woods” and will start Thursday, the first day he is eligible to come off the disabled list.
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