Yankees offense gets help from unlikely source to pick up Max Fried in win over White Sox

CHICAGO — As he tried to explain how the Yankees might possibly survive four to six weeks without Cody Bellinger — on top of ongoing, indefinite absences from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton — Aaron Boone reached for a cliche.“It’s going to take all of us,” the manager said a few hours before first pitch.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.

Trite as it was, the Yankees brought it to fruition, at least for one night, as their lineup picked up their pitching staff for a change.On a day when Max Fried put the Yankees in an early three-run hole, they climbed out of it to take a lead and then later broke a tie for good on the way to a 9-5 win over the White Sox on Monday night at Rate Field.Coming off a weekend in which they scored a combined eight runs in three games against the Phillies — putting plenty of stress on their pitchers with little to no margin for error — the Yankees (60-46) used a pair of four-run innings to claim the series opener against the first-place White Sox (55-50) and win for the 10th time in their last 14 games.An offensive attack capped off by Ali Sánchez’s first career home run — a three-run shot in the eighth inning — allowed the Yankees to score more than five runs for only the third time in their last 33 games since back-to-back double-digit outbursts against these White Sox back on June 16-17.They also had not won a game by more than three runs since July 9, and while Camilo Doval and fielding errors from José Caballero and Anthony Volpe threatened that feat in the ninth inning, David Bednar came in to nail down the final out.Despite some shoddy defense early and late, the Yankees delivered in the clutch when they were still clinging to a 5-4 lead in the seventh inning as Colson Montgomery tried to score all the way from first on a two-out double from Chase Meidroth.But left fielder Max Schuemann — starting ...