The heavy rain that soaked Yankee Stadium late Friday night proved to be a microcosm of the first two-plus weeks of the 2019 baseball season for the Yankees. No matter how hard they try, the rain just keeps on pouring.And it is for the Yankees, who earlier Friday put their catcher Gary Sanchez on the disable listed. Eight hours later they watched the Chicago White Sox come into the Bronx and beat up JA Happ en route to a 9-6 thumping before rains canceled the final three innings of the contest. Since it was the seventh inning when the rains came, the game was official. Even that can't go right for the Yanks right now.
The sad part is things were actually looking up for the Yankees early on. New York built a 4-1 lead on RBIs by DJ LeMahieu, Austin Romine and Aaron Judge.
But by the fourth inning, the clock struck midnight on the aging Happ,who just couldn't get anyone out.
He walked James McCann and Adam Engel, before serving up a meatball to Leury Garcia who slapped it off the end of the bat to right field, driving in both runners to cut the Yankees lead 4-3.
After New York responded in the bottom half of the frame, courtesy of a Brett Gardner home run, things fell apart in the fifth.
Jose Abreu's soft single to center was followed by a frozen rope off the bat of Yonder Alonso into the shallow right stands to tie the game at five. After serving up a single to Yoan Moncada, Yankees skipper Aaron Boone pulled the plug on Happ, but it didn't get any better.
With Jonathan Holder now on the hill, Eloy Jimenez got all of a low changeup and dropped it over the centerfield wall to give the Chi-Sox a 7-5 lead. The blast was one of two for Jimenez, who would hit another homer to dead center in the seventh inning that gave Chicago an 8-6 lead.
Overall the White Sox hit four home runs in the win, as the Yankees their fifth loss at home already. The Yankees are 5-8 on the season, and falling farther and farther behind the surging and surprising Tampa Bay Rays who are 11-3.
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