CHICAGO — It’s been a bad weekend for crime in Chicago with five people killed and 34 others reportedly injured in shootings. Almost two hours after the Yankees’ win at Rate Field on Saturday night, seven locals were injured in a drive-in shooting just a few blocks from the Southside ballpark.
Not to make light of a serious situation, but the Yankees were the victim of a baseball robbery in the third inning of Sunday’s 3-2 loss to the White Sox.
One batter after Cody Bellinger ’s third-inning RBI double put the Yankees on top 2-1, White Sox right fielder Mike Tauchman reached over the right-field wall to take away a two-run homer from former Yankees teammate Giancarlo Stanton.
“They robbed a two-run homer,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Taking the homer back, that would have b