A scratch opening combination of Dinesh Karthik and Wasim Jaffe

CHICAGO -- After coming in from the West Coast and stumbling through another loss, the New York Yankees were looking forward to a little rest.CC Sabathia allowed a pair of two-run homers, shortstop Didi Gregorius committed a career-high three errors and New York lost 8-2 to the Chicago White Sox on Monday.It was a terrible day, said the normally sure-handed Gregorius, who had never committed more than one error in a major league game. I was trying to read the ball and there were a couple bad hops, but I tried to stay with it and made three errors today. But tomorrow is a new day, so Im not worried about that.Chase Headley hit a two-run homer for New York, which has lost three of four. Starlin Castro went 4 for 4 with two doubles in his first game in Chicago since the Yankees acquired the infielder in a December trade with the Cubs.The Yankees (40-42) went 0 for 13 with runners in scoring position.That was the difference in the game, manager Joe Girardi said. They got the hits when they needed them and we didnt. We had plenty of opportunities.New York opened a 10-game trip by dropping two of three at San Diego, winning 6-3 on Sunday to prevent a sweep. Then the Yankees flew to Chicago for Monday afternoons series opener.Its a tough day today, a quick turnaround with the day game and the time change and all that, said left fielder Brett Gardner, who went 0 for 5 with two strikeouts. But thats part of it and hopefully we can get some rest tonight and be ready to go tomorrow.Chicago had a string of 15 consecutive solo shots, matching a franchise record, before Tim Anderson connected in the third inning for a two-run homer that tied it at 2. Brett Lawrie hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the fifth before Dioner Navarro belted a two-run drive to left field for his fifth homer.Anderson went 2 for 4 for his 12th multihit game since he was promoted from the minors on June 10. The 2013 first-round pick has four homers in 23 games with the White Sox after hitting four in 55 games with Triple-A Charlotte.I guess its daddy strength kicking in, said Anderson, who became a parent for the first time during spring training.Sabathia (5-6) struck out nine in six innings, but allowed five runs and eight hits. The big left-hander has dropped each of his last two starts and is winless in his last three outings with an 8.31 ERA during that stretch.I thought his stuff was much better than the numbers indicated, but thats baseball, Girardi said. You have to make pitches all the time.While Sabathia is struggling, James Shields (4-9) got his second straight win after a long slump that started with San Diego and carried over to Chicago after he was acquired in a trade a month ago. The right-hander, who went 0-2 with a 15.80 ERA in his first four starts for the White Sox, limited New York to five hits in six innings.Youre going to have rough stretches pretty much every year, so its nothing crazy, Shields said. But were just going to continue to work hard and try to get this team some wins.WORTH NOTINGYankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury reached on catchers interference for the eighth time this year, tying the major league record set by Roberto Kelly of the Yankees in 1992.TRAINERS ROOMYankees: Carlos Beltran (right hamstring) went 1 for 5 as the designated hitter. Tomorrow, hopefully, Im in the outfield and Ill continue to progress, he said. ... A day after he homered twice to get to 401 for his career, Mark Teixeira got the day off to protect his right knee from the short turnaround between games. The switch-hitting first baseman came off the disabled list June 25 after being sidelined with torn cartilage in his right knee.White Sox: OF Melky Cabrera went 2 for 5 in his return to the starting lineup after missing five games with a mild right wrist sprain. He also made a diving catch in left in the seventh.UP NEXTWhite Sox LHP Carlos Rodon (2-6, 4.24 ERA) tries for his first win since May 22 when he gets the ball Tuesday night. The Yankees counter with RHP Masahiro Tanaka (5-2, 3.35), who is 2-0 with a 4.50 ERA in his last three starts.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap Troy Murphy Jersey . No. 13-seeded John Isner and No. 21 Philipp Kohlschreiber were among six players who dropped out of the tournament on Tuesday, joining No. 12 seed Tommy Haas and two other players who withdrew on Monday. 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A tricky pitch with unpredictable bounce awaited, and, having chosen to bat, India were 3 for 2 in no time. Wickets kept falling at one end, but the man who walked in at No. 4, Rahul Dravid, delivered a masterclass at the other, staying at the crease for more than five-and-a-half hours to score 81 and take India to a total of 200.It was enough to secure a first-innings lead of 97, with no one in the West Indies line-up showing comparable patience and application. Indias advantage, though, seemed to be slipping away when they slumped to 6 for 2, and again Dravid stood alone, his 68 helping set West Indies a target of 269. It proved a touch too far out of reach, despite aggressive half-centuries from Ramnaresh Sarwan and Denesh Ramdin, as Anil Kumble steadily chipped away to pick up a six-wicket haul and deliver India a 49-run win. Kumble was the only man in Indias side born before April 1971, when India had last won a series in the West Indies.By Karthik KrishnaswamySreesanth steamrolls South AfricaIndia vs. South Africa, Johannesburg, 2006If S Sreesanths career were to be remembered for one match, it would have to be the one in which he steamrolled South Africa on a pacy Wanderers pitch to set up Indias first ever Test win in the country.The pre-match talk was about how South Africas pace attack would bully India into submission; the post-match chatter sought to examine how the opposite had happened. A large part of the answer lay in performance of the wiry 23-year-old pace sensation from Kerala.Bowling with pace and swing, Sreesanth took a five-wicket haul to blow South Africa away for 84 and give India a 165-run first-innings lead. India ultimately set South Africa a target of 402 and romped home to a 123-run victory.But one of the most memorable passages of play involved the contest, in Indias second innings, between Andre Nel, the bowler, and Sreesanth, the batsman. Sreesanth did not particularly relish the nasty bouncers Nel directed at him. He had even less of a liking for the nasty words. With tempers mounting, Sreesanth slogged Nel for a six down the ground and broke into an elaborate, bat-twirling, hip-gyrating jig.It was the touch of madness that underpinned so much of Sreesanths compelling intensity and match-turning brilliance. At the Wanderers in 2006, India was grateful for it.By Sirish RaghavanZaheer Khan bowls India to what turns out to be a series-winning TestIndia vs. England, Trent Bridge, 2007This Test was to become a marker of Indian excellence in that English summer. India got away with a hair-raising draw at Lords, settled under Nottinghams grey skies, and ended up looking more at home than the home team.dddddddddddd Indias bowlers made good first use of a damp wicket, England all out for 198, Sreesanth succeeding in annoying the opposition and getting their wickets. A scratch opening combination of Dinesh Karthik and Wasim Jaffer negated the new ball with a century stand and Indias greatest middle order - Dravid, Tendulkar Ganguly and Laxman - revelled in what was to be their final England tour together.As India pushed past 450, there came the jelly beans. Scattered on the pitch to annoy Zaheer Khan, all they did was rile him into producing what he was to call his best spell overall. India were ahead by 283, and Zaheer returned to give England an exhibition of high-quality swing bowling. A bowler at the top of his craft, Zaheer used the width of the crease, went round the wicket and moved the ball both ways to produce befuddling angles for the batsmen. By the time he was done with 5-75, England were all out for 355; India was to knock off the 73 required, and take the first step towards winning an away series in England in 21 years.By Sharda UgraIndia rebound after Sydney shamblesIndia vs. Australia, Perth, 2008It was a Test win especially significant in light of what had gone before. Australia, then the No. 1 ranked team, had won their previous 16 Tests. Of greatest salience was the last of those 16 wins - in the 2nd Test against India, at the SCG.Australia had won that match by 122 runs, but controversies surrounding umpiring decisions, unsportsmanlike conduct and a highly charged incident between Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds had caused bad blood between the teams and almost led to Indias withdrawal from the tour.When India arrived at the WACA, 2-nil down in the four-match series, they were not greatly fancied to end Australias streak. This was, after all, a venue where no subcontinent team had won a Test. Moreover, the demoralising defeats in Melbourne and Sydney, and the distractions that followed the latter defeat, had presumably left them ill-prepared to take on the worlds best side at one of the more daunting Test venues.Or so one thought. Instead, India turned out a spirited team effort to beat Australia by 72 runs. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid laid the platform in the first innings, VVS Laxman directed a crucial rearguard effort in the second, and opening bowlers RP Singh and Irfan Pathan led the wicket-taking operation. And who can forget the dazzling spells of a 19-year-old fast bowler who repeatedly got the better of Ricky Ponting? That bowler, now 28, is Ishant Sharma, the only remaining link between that team and Indias current Test XI.By Sirish Raghavan ' ' '