Yankees sweep past White Sox 3-0 for Vasquez 1st career win

The New York Yankees defeated the Chicago Whites Sox 3-0 for doubleheader split on Thursday night.

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Randy Vasquez achieved his first MLB win as he pitched two-hit ball into the sixth inning. Billy McKinney hit a home run (his first of the season), while Eloy Jimenez hit a go-head homer in the seventh.

Jake Burger had a two-run shot off Yankees starter Luis Severino before Luis Robert Jr. and Yoán Moncada also went deep against the right-hander.

Vasquez made his second league start, allowing a single to Jiménez that put runners at first and second in the first. The rookie retired the next 15 hitters until Gavin Sheets singled, and was lifted after plunking Robert in the back to put two on with two outs in the sixth.

“I thought his stuff was really good,” Yankees head-coach Aaron Boone said. “He had life on his four-seamer and a sinker that set up the other stuff, but he had power behind everything which I thought really served him well.”