Gavin Sheets went 4-for-5 with four RBIs, Andrew Vaughn added four hits and Korey Lee and Brooks Baldwin homered to lead the host Chicago White Sox to a 12-2 rout of the New York Yankees on Monday.
The White Sox out-hit the Yankees 18-9 as Chicago interim manager Grady Sizemore earned his first win since assuming the role after the team fired manager Pedro Grifol last Thursday.
Chicago collected a season-high 10 extra-base hits en route to its first home win since July 10.
New York stranded 16 runners and finished 2-for-18 with men in scoring position. The Yankees fell 1/2 game behind the idle Baltimore Orioles for the American League East lead.
Dominic Fletcher had three hits for the White Sox while Andrew Benintendi added two. Three of Sheets’ hits went for RBI doubles. The Yankees struggled to keep pace amid starter Luis Gil’s struggles, falling to 2-4 in their past six games.
Gil (12-6) scattered four runs and seven hits in four innings, with two walks and three strikeouts. He lost for the first time since July 7.
Touki Toussaint picked up the victory in relief to improve to 1-2. Toussaint spaced one hit, one walk and one strikeout in 1 1/3 innings.
White Sox starter Ky Bush, a rookie left-hander, encountered the control issues that soured his major league debut last week but pitched effectively out of jams.
After walking five and hitting a batter in four innings at Oakland on Aug. 5, Bush issued seven walks in his 4 2/3 innings against the Yankees. He yielded two runs and six hits with two strikeouts.
New York loaded the bases in the second and fourth innings, but emerged with zero runs.
Judge opened the scoring with a first-inning RBI single after Bush walked the first two batters he faced.
The Yankees drew to within 4-2 on Anthony Volpe’s run-scoring infield single in the fifth. Jazz Chisholm Jr. (left elbow) was injured while sliding home and will undergo further testing Tuesday.
Judge and Chisholm Jr. had two hits each.
Chicago put the game out of reach with a six-run seventh inning, which featured six straight hits against Yankees reliever Enyel De Los Santos. Baldwin punctuated the outburst with a three-run homer.