It was a game between two exceptionally intriguing teams as of late. The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox are two completely different teams, however. The Yankees came into the 2014 season with massive expectations, with the strong additions of Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann, and the highly proclaimed Masahiro Tanaka. The White Sox, on the other hand, were supposed to be rebuilding all this season. A new era with a young Cuban named Jose Abreu had just begun, and there was no way that he could become a star over night and lead the Sox to the playoffs. And there was no way the Yankees could miss the playoffs.

Well, the baseball gods work in strange ways.

The Yankees are barely over .500, and the White Sox are right in the thick of things in the odd AL Central. The Yankees recently lost pitcher CC Sabathia to an injury, while the White Sox star Abreu was injured as well. The mediocre NYY pitching staff would have to step up their game, while the aging Sox lineup would have to do the same.

The game tonight consisted of a pitching matchup between two starters that have been less-than-stellar this year: Hiroki Kuroda and Hector Noesi. Runs were sure to be given up in droves.

In the first inning, don't you know it, Noesi made Sox fans sick by giving up a monster 3-run homer to Yanks offseason addition Brian McCann, yet the White Sox answered in the bottom of the inning by scoring a run on an error by Kelly Johnson. The tone was set.

Suddenly, after eventless 2nd and 3rd innings, the White Sox came alive, with Kuroda running into some massive trouble in the 4th, giving up a run, and in the 5th, the Yankees gave up a whopper of a 2-run home run to the blazing hot shortstop Alexei Ramirez.

But you didn't expect the Yankees to lay down and die, did you? No, in the 7th, the Empire Struck Back, with Scott Downs letting down the Sox fans by letting the bases get full of pinstripes. 2 Yankee runs were scored that inning.

Chicago White Sox fans were ready to head out of U.S. Cellular Field with another loss. Despair was setting in. Yankees closer David Robertson hadn't blown a save all season.

Robertson hadn't faced the Big Donkey yet.

Adam Dunn, in the bottom of the 9th inning, unleashed a monster of a home run, which almost put world-renowned White Sox play-by-play announcer Hawk Harrelson into tears. A beauty of a home run it was, and the aging 1st baseman caused a ruckus among the fans. It was a fantastic moment to celebrate for Sox fans.

With this win, the White Sox can continue to keep on thinking ahead. Times are looking pretty fair on the South Side of Chicago, and if Jose Abreu can return quickly, the sun will shine even brighter.

For the Yankees, things are a bit bleak. If they don't patch the holes in the back end of their pitching rotation, the hungry competition in the AL East race (Toronto, Baltimore, Tampa, and Boston) could overtake NYY in a heartbeat.

Game 3 of the Yankees-White Sox series will occur tomorrow at 2:10 EST.