It was a quiet Thursday for Finger Lakes-area teams, with only one game on the board — and it came from the Bronx. The New York Yankees dropped a 5-1 decision to the Chicago White Sox, with the decisive blow coming from an unlikely source: Andrew Benintendi’s pinch-hit grand slam. The White Sox, who entered the game having lost nine straight, snapped that skid emphatically against a Yankees squad that came in as one of the AL’s better teams at 45-28.
The loss drops New York to 45-28 on the season — still a comfortable position in the standings, but a rough night at home. Chicago improves to 39-34, and a pinch-hit grand slam is exactly the kind of lift a struggling team needed. For Yankees fans in the region, it’s a game to forget quickly.
Everything else on the Finger Lakes sports calendar sat idle. The Red Wings, Bills, Sabres, Giants, Knicks, Rangers, Knighthawks, Cornell, Hobart, and Syracuse all had the day off.
