CHICAGO — Forget the American League’s top wild-card spot.

The AL East title suddenly is very much in play for the Yankees.

On a night when their red-hot offense was mostly held in check, the Yankees — behind opposite-field RBI hits by Cody Bellinger, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Anthony Volpe in the 11th inning — beat the White Sox, 5-3, to win their seventh straight game and pull within two games of the first-place Blue Jays.

The Yankees (76-60), who trailed the Blue Jays by 6 ½ games as recently as Aug. 23, have won 14 of their last 18 games. Both the Blue Jays and Red Sox, whom the Yankees lead by 1 1/2 games for the first wild-card slot, lost on Saturday.

David Bednar pitched a scoreless ninth and then worked out of a runner-on-third, one-out jam in the 10th. With his team employing a f

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