Anderson, Garcia rally Chicago White Sox past Yankees

The first-place Yankees arrived Thursday for the first of four games against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Tim Anderson basically shrugged.

“Just because they're the Yankees, they don't scare us,” Anderson said. “It doesn't matter who it is, we're going to go out and compete and try to get a win.”

After falling behind New York 4-0, the Sox regrouped and powered their way past the Yankees.

Leury Garcia's RBI double and Anderson's 3-run homer tied the game in the fifth inning.

In the seventh, Garcia had a brilliant at-bat against Yankees reliever Adam Ottavino, who has one of the best sliders in the game. After falling behind in the count 0-2, Garcia homered to right-center field on Ottavino's 11th pitch and the White Sox edged New York 5-4.

“He's really good,” Garcia said of Ottavino. “I was just trying to swing at good pitches. I wasn't looking for a homer, I was just trying to get on base.”

With Alex Colome unavailable after throwing 39 pitches Tuesday night, Aaron Bummer closed out the Yankees in the ninth inning for his first major-league save. The left-hander lowered his ERA to 1.37.

“He's earned that,” manager Rick Renteria said of Bummer. “He has a lot of action on his pitches and he throws a lot of strikes.”

The day the music died:

The 40-year anniversary of the infamous Disco Demoliton was celebrated Thursday night, and organizer Steve Dahl threw out the ceremonial first pitch.

Dahl, a 24-year-old disc jockey for the Loop at the time, remembers the night of mayhem at old Comiskey Park well.

“I remember being surprised that many people showed up,” he said. “Back then, the Sox drew maybe 9,000 people on a good night. If I tripled that, the place would still be half-empty. I was really surprised by the response.”

Dahl still feels bad about the damage done by blowing up disco records and fans storming the field. The event was staged before Game 2 of a doubleheader, which the White Sox had to forfeit.

“My biggest regret is that it affected the Veeck family and their ownership of the team,” Dahl said. “I certainly didn't mean for that to happen at all.”

Dahl responded to Chicago-based music producer Giovanni Taverna, who said: “That night has been defined racist and homophobic because disco music was mainly connected to black and Latino communities in the U.S., and to the gay communities.”

“Disco was everywhere,” Dahl said. “I understand now it started in gay clubs and it was an expression of freedom, but we didn't know any of that at the time. We were really just making fun of Saturday Night Fever.”

Moncada update:

Third baseman Yoan Moncada missed his second straight game with upper-back tightness.

“It feels a little better, much better than the first day, but I still feel a soreness,” Moncada said through a translator. “I want to be sure that when I come back I am 100 percent healthy because I don't want to have any lingering issues going forward.”

Moncada said he hopes to return to the White Sox's lineup Saturday or Sunday.