The White Sox came up short against the Yankees with their late rally on Monday night, but they did win one of the games within the game by making Aroldis Chapman sweat. Chapman threw 20 largely ineffective pitches on zero days’ rest, and since he was coming off inflammation in his throwing shoulder, Joe Girardi wasn’t going to sue him three days in a row.
Being one late-inning reliever short bit the Yankees tonight, because when Girardi’s other guys couldn’t find the strike zone, he ran out of preferred options to replace them. And while it looked like the White Sox were willing to let them off the hook, the game lasted long enough for Jose Abreu to knock a walk-off single through the left side.