Yankees face White Sox in MLB matchup with Cole on the run line

On a late July Wednesday, the Yankees carried their modest lead into Chicago, where the White Sox waited with enough wins to make the gap feel meaningful but not insurmountable. Around this game, as around so many midsummer contests, a second economy of prediction and probability hummed alongside the baseball itself — analysts parsing odds, outlets publishing picks, fans consulting percentages as if the numbers might steady the uncertainty that makes the sport worth watching. Gerrit Cole, expensive and scrutinized, stood at the center of that uncertainty, his name attached to a betting line th