NEW YORK -- In a week that has already featured a Corey Kluber no-hitter, the Yankees opened their homestand by turning a triple play and celebrating a Gleyber Torres walk-off hit. What will they do for an encore?

A half-inning after third baseman Gio Urshela started the club¡¯s first triple play since 2014, Torres lashed a deciding single into left field, securing a 2-1 victory over the White Sox on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. It marked the Bombers¡¯ third consecutive home game with a walk-off.

¡°We felt like we were playing a postseason game,¡± Torres said. ¡°We played really good baseball tonight. It was great. This is the type of game we enjoy; we always try to come back and win the game. That is the mentality for the Yankees right now.¡±

Torres came through with the deciding knock off Evan Marshall, two innings after the shortstop shattered a scoreless tie by clearing the short right-field porch with an opposite-field home run facing reliever Michael Kopech. Torres said he didn¡¯t quite barrel the ball, and his 345-foot drive had enough juice to exit only one ballpark: Yankee Stadium.

¡°The crowd was into that game,¡± said manager Aaron Boone. ¡°It was real tight, back and forth, and a very well-pitched game where there weren¡¯t a lot of opportunities. You¡¯ve got to be able to win these games, and it¡¯s not always going to be easy.¡±

Contact was historically scarce through the first seven innings, with Chicago¡¯s Carlos Rod¨®n and New York¡¯s Jordan Montgomery combining for 24 strikeouts -- 13 for Rod¨®n and 11 for Montgomery, both career highs.

¡°That¡¯s what I expect out of myself,¡± Montgomery said. ¡°To go out there, set the tone, give our team a chance. And we won the game, so it was a fun one tonight.¡±

Nick Madrigal tied the game in the eighth with an excuse-me, opposite-field RBI single off Jonathan Loaisiga, and the Yankees were dismissed from a two-on, none-out opportunity in the eighth as Tyler Wade was thrown out at the plate and Luke Voit lined hard into a double play.

¡°There were some winning at-bats at the end, even in the inning where we left the runners out there,¡± Boone said.

Before departing on a 7-3 road trip, the Yankees celebrated walk-off wins over the Nationals, won on hits by Torres and Giancarlo Stanton.

¡°Every time I get that opportunity, I forget what I did the game before,¡± Torres said. ¡°I¡¯m just focused on that moment. I just focus and keep it simple -- try to help my team and just put the ball in play. I think that helps me a lot in those kinds of situations.¡±

Triple threat
The Yankees were in trouble in the ninth, as closer Aroldis Chapman appeared in danger of permitting his first earned run of the season.

Chapman issued a leadoff walk to Yerm¨ªn Mercedes and committed an error fielding a sacrifice-bunt attempt, with pinch-runner Billy Hamilton advancing to second base as Leury Garc¨ªa reached safely.

Urshela¡¯s quick thinking helped turn three, reacting instinctively on Andrew Vaughn¡¯s hard grounder to the left side of the infield. Urshela gloved the ball, stepped on third and fired to Rougned Odor at second base. Odor completed the turn with a strike to first baseman Voit.

¡°It was so exciting,¡± Chapman said through an interpreter. ¡°That¡¯s one of those plays that you don¡¯t see every day, a triple play. [Urshela] got me out of that hole -- runners at first and second, nobody out and Hamilton at second base. We fought until the end.¡±

Before Friday, the Yanks¡¯ most recent triple play came on April 17, 2014, in a 10-2 win over the Rays at Tropicana Field: third baseman Yangervis Solarte to second baseman Brian Roberts to first baseman Scott Sizemore.

The Jordan rules
Continuing a string of terrific pitching performances that featured Kluber¡¯s no-hitter over the Rangers earlier in the week, Montgomery tossed seven dazzling frames, settling for a no-decision as the lefty extended the Bombers¡¯ scoreless streak to 29 consecutive innings.

"He pitched,¡± White Sox manager Tony La Russa said. ¡°He took advantage of our aggressiveness a couple of times with chasing pitches. He didn't throw much in the middle. I give him credit.¡±

According to STATS, it marked the first time in the modern era that both starting pitchers had 10 or more strikeouts while allowing no walks and no runs.

¡°We¡¯re playing good baseball right now,¡± Montgomery said. ¡°I¡¯m just kind of relieved to get the job done. I believed in myself fully and I executed pitches.¡±