CHICAGO — It’s been a bad weekend for crime in Chicago with five people killed and 34 others reportedly injured in shootings. Almost two hours after the Yankees’ win at Rate Field on Saturday night, seven locals were injured in a drive-in shooting just a few blocks from the Southside ballpark.
Not to make light of a serious situation, but the Yankees were the victim of a baseball robbery in the third inning of Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the White Sox.
One batter after Cody Bellinger’s third-inning RBI double put the Yankees on top 2-1, White Sox right fielder Mike Tauchman reached over the right-field wall to take away a two-run homer from former Yankees teammate Giancarlo Stanton.
“They robbed a two-run homer,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Taking the homer back, that would have been a little lead extender.”
The Yankees’ season-long, seven-game winning streak ended after the White Sox broke a 2-2 tie in the eighth when Lenyn Sosa homered off Tim Hill and reliever Mike Vasil pitched a scoreless ninth, the final out coming on a Bellinger strikeout looking with Trent Grisham on second base.
The outcome could have been different if Stanton’s third-inning flyball was hit a foot higher.
“The way (Tauchman) was going at it, I thought it was going to be short of the wall, the way he was tracking it,” Boone said. “He must have been just timing his steps up really well and ends up making a really good play there.”
The Yankees got used to seeing great defensive plays from Tauchman when he was on their team from 2019-21.
“If Tauchman’s in center, if he’s in right, left, it doesn’t matter,” Yankees captain Aaron Judge said. “That’s the one guy you don’t want to hit it to. I’ve seen him make a lot of impressive plays over the years, especially in pinstripes with us and then when he went to the Giants and here.
“I hated seeing it to be honest, but that guy’s a ballplayer.”
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