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# INSTANT REACTION: Yanks take the series over the White Sox, tie the Blue Jays atop the AL East
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- Published: 2025-09-25T05:50:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-25T05:50:44.000Z
- Author: Matthew Nethercott
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THE BRONX, NY — Instant Reaction to the Yankees 8-1 win over the White Sox, to tie the Blue Jays atop of the AL East — though Toronto owns the tiebreaker, so the Yankees are essentially a half game back — and improve to 90-68 on the season. Max F

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Image of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge celebrating the Yankees clinching their ticket to the 2025 postseason. Credit: Yankees on X

THE BRONX, NY — Instant Reaction to the Yankees 8-1 win over the White Sox, to tie the Blue Jays atop of the AL East — though Toronto owns the tiebreaker, so the Yankees are essentially a half game back — and improve to 90-68 on the season.

- Max Fried worked a 13 pitch 1-2-3 first inning with two strikeouts to start the game.
- The Yankees loaded the bases, all on walks, with no outs in the bottom of the first. They did not score a run.
- Max Fried surrendered a run in a sloppy second inning after back-to-back singles lead to a sac fly, getting the White Sox on the board first. Then Ryan McMahon and Jazz Chisholm Jr. would combine for an error, puting the Yankees in a bad spot, but a flyout as Brooks Baldwin and a strikeout of Michael Taylor ended the inning with nothing else across.
- The Yankees punched right back with Aaron Judge hitting his 50th home run in the second inning, a three-run shot deep into the Yankees bullpen, to bail their pitcher and their defense out.
- The Yankees would tack on two more runs in the third inning after a triple by Rice, an RBI single by Goldschmidt and an RBI double by Goldschmidt.
- While the Yankees offense took the next few innings off, their ace, Max Fried, was able to hold the four-run lead he was handed, twirling seven innings of 1-run ball on 107 pitches. It might not have been the most dominat start by Fried, but he fought and got the job done for the Yankees.
- The Yankees offense began to show signs of life in the seventh inning, with Judge and Stanton both reaching on singles, but a Rice flyout and a Goldschmidt strikeout would leave the runners stranded.
- Devin Williams was the first out of the Yankees bullpen and he pitched a quick 1-2-3 eighth inning. Williams is now living up he nickname “high-lev Dev”.
- The Yankees added two insurance runs in the eighth inning on a Trent Grisham two-out, two-run homer, following a two-out walk to McMahon. It was Grisham’s 34th homer of the season, and more importantly, a 7-1 Yankees lead.
- Aaron Judge would follow up with his second home run of the game, and his 51st home run of the season, and giving the Yankees an 8-1 lead.
- Paul Blackburn came on and closed out the victory, saving the bullpen.

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