Yankee's Lose Close One

Shawn Chacon now has three dominant performances in three career starts for the Yankees as he gave up a run on three hits in 7 innings, but it was all for naught as former Yankee Jose Contreras pitched just as well and the White Sox beat the Yankees 2-1. The Yankees' loss coupled with an extra inning win for the Red Sox puts the Yankees 4.5 games behind their arch rivals with 51 games to play. Fortunately they couldn't lose any ground in the wild card race, as the two teams that were tied at the top played against each other last night (The Angels defeated Oakland 9-2).

The Yankees trailed by a score of 1-0 the most of the way and the White Sox went ahead 2-0 after Paul Konerko launched a home run of Alan Embree in the 9th inning. That home run proved to be the game winner as A-Rod launched his league leading 33rd home run (his 3rd in three games) to lead off the bottom of the 9th. The Yankees had runners on first and third with two outs when Bernie Williams came up to pinch hit for Tony Womack. He swung at the first pitch he saw from Dustin Hermanson and hit it down the first base line probably as hard as he has hit a ball all season, only to be caught for the final out by newly acquired White Sox' 1B Geoff Blum.