Andrew Benintendis late grand slam prevents Yankees from sweeping White Sox

If the Yankees were looking for any more clarity about the weak parts on a roster that’s looked mostly dominant even without Aaron Judge, they got it on Thursday in The Bronx.What had been a tight game against a White Sox team they had hammered the previous two games, turned on its head with one pitch from Camilo Doval, the right-hander who’s been unreliable since he was acquired from the Giants nearly a year ago.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

Faced with the unenviable task of entering with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the eighth of a tie game, Doval faced pinch-hitter Andrew Benintendi and gave up a grand slam on his first pitch in a 5-1 loss.Doval was far from the only reason the Yankees had their four-game winning streak snapped, losing just the second time in 10 games.An offense that had piled up 30 runs in their previous three games, couldn’t get anything going against lefty opener Bryan Hudson or right-hander Sean Burke, who had been knocked around by the Dodgers and Phillies in his previous two appearances, but limited the Yankees to one run in 7 1/3 innings to finish the game.The Yankees brought a season-high 3 ½-game lead in the AL East over the idle Rays- who were just swept by the Dodgers in Los Angeles.But despite a solid start by lefty Ryan Weathers — who gave up just one run in 6 ⅓ innings — the Yankees were unable to finish off a sweep of Chicago.Weathers had allowed at least five runs in each of his previous three starts — and four of his last five — but struck out the side in order in the top of the first, an indication of how powerful his stuff was on Thursday.He began the second by giving up a leadoff homer to Colson Montgomery after allowing seven homers in those three previous starts.But that would be all he would give up to the White Sox on this night.He responded to the Montgomery homer by facing one ba...