Wise and Kuroda Help Yankees Beat White Sox Dewayne Wise walked into the Yankees clubhouse Saturday morning bearing an especially large grin. "Arm's feeling good," he said. On Friday night, Wise accomplished what he considered one of his lifelong dreams, becoming the first Yankees position player to appear on the mound since Nick Swisher in 2009. On Saturday, Wise hit a single, a double and a home run to help the Yankees snap a two-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory over the White Sox at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees did not need Wise, a left fielder, as they did Friday, when Manager Joe Girardi looked down his bench in the ninth inning of a 14-7 drubbing and tabbed Wise - who hadn't pitched since high school - to do what he could. Practically giggling on the mound, Wise retired the only two batters he faced and gave the Yankees a moment of levity that allowed them to relax and move forward into Saturday's game. Hiroki Kuroda took it from there, shutting down the White Sox for three hits and a season-high 11 strikeouts in seven innings. After giving up two singles and a walk in the first inning, Kuroda retired 15 in a row, six by strikeout. He did not allow a hit for 19 consecutive batters and struck out the side in the fourth. He threw 26 pitches in the first inning and then a total of 45 over his next four. The performance was Kuroda's finest since he shut down the Oakland Athletics for eight scoreless innings on May 27, the beginning of what has been an impressive stretch for him. After losing six of his first nine starts with the Yankees, the right-handed Kuroda has been found his groove, going 4-1 with a 1.93 earned run average (9 runs in 42 innings) since that game. Helping him during that streak has been his work in the first inning. After allowing 12 first-inning runs in his first nine outings, he has yet to allow one in his last seven. He is also holding hitters to a .130 average with runners in scoring position since May 21. The result has been the reliability and consistency the Yankees have desperately needed in their rotation. Kuroda, after the injuries to Andy Pettitte and C. C. Sabathia, has been thrust into the No. 2 spot in the rotation and will be counted on to devour innings. On Saturday, the Yankees were without long relievers David Phelps (who will start Wednesday) and Cory Wade (who pitched Friday). Girardi said before the game his biggest hope was that Kuroda could pitch deep in the game. "We need some distance," Girardi said. Be nice to get six, seven innings out of him today and be able to get to our bullpen. Kuroda did just that. David Robertson, Boone Logan and Rafael Soriano kept the White Sox off the scoreboard in the eighth and ninth innings. The Yankees" Curtis Granderson again homered in the first inning - the second consecutive game he has done that. It was his 23rd homer of the season. Wise doubled in a run with a line drive to center field in the second, then homered to right field in the fifth and singled in the seventh. Robinson Cano added a solo homer in the sixth to give the Yankees a 4-0 lead. It was his eighth home run in 13 games. The Yankees sent down pitcher Adam Warren to Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre on Saturday after he allowed six runs in two and a third innings in his major league debut Friday night. In his place, the team recalled the right-handed reliever D. J. Mitchell from Scranton. ... Manager Joe Girardi announced David Phelps will start Wednesday against Tampa Bay.