The Chicago White Sox have been keen to point out 2022 was an aberration.
Instead, they took an enormous step again.
Friday’s 12-4 loss towards the Oakland Athletics at Guaranteed Rate Field was the newest instance on the sector in a season gone improper.
Starter Dylan Cease allowed eight earned runs and walked 5 in 4 1/3 innings. The workforce made two errors within the second inning and one other within the fifth. After surrendering 5 residence runs in Thursday’s loss to the A’s, the Sox allowed two extra Friday as they fell a season-worst 29 video games below .500.
Asked afterward in regards to the errors, supervisor Pedro Grifol went past saying, “the whole thing is frustrating.”
“We’ve got to get better,” he mentioned. “That’s plain and easy. It’s not for lack of attempting. These guys are on the market doing their work. We’ve simply received to get higher.
“There’s no excuses.”
Even with Saturday’s 6-2 victory, which featured solo homers from Lenyn Sosa and Andrew Benintendi, a three-run homer by Yoán Moncada and 5 scoreless innings from starter Touki Toussaint, the Sox will lose the season sequence to the A’s, who’ve the worst file in baseball.
Expected to contend, the Sox discover themselves with the third-worst file within the American League, leading to a significant sell-off on the commerce deadline.
More modifications got here with the workforce firing govt vice chairman Ken Williams and basic supervisor Rick Hahn on Tuesday.
“Ultimately, the well-worn cliché that professional sports is results-oriented is correct,” Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf mentioned as a part of Tuesday’s assertion.
Here are three sequence that illustrate the workforce’s struggles this season.
April 21-23 at Tampa Bay
The Sox have been three outs from a momentum-turning victory within the April 21 sequence opener at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla.
But three large swings from the Rays turned the sport right into a crushing defeat. The Rays scored three within the ninth towards reliever Reynaldo López to beat the Sox 8-7.
With the Sox main 7-5, the Rays’ Christian Bethancourt homered to proper to steer off the underside of the ninth. Yandy Díaz singled. And Brandon Lowe ended the sport with a two-run blast to proper.
The subsequent evening, the Sox twice fought again from deficits earlier than struggling one other walk-off loss. Randy Arozarena did within the Sox, driving in pinch runner Vidal Bruján with a single to proper to present the Rays a 4-3 victory in 10 innings.
Rays starter Zach Eflin and relievers Yonny Chirinos and Pete Fairbanks retired the ultimate 17 batters within the sequence finale because the Sox fell 4-1.
They dropped the following three in Toronto — getting outscored 20-2 — as a part of a 10-game shedding streak from which the workforce would by no means get better.
May 8-11 at Kansas City
The Sox had received two of three towards the Minnesota Twins, their first sequence victory of the season, and on the Cincinnati Reds after they traveled to Kansas City.
Any hopes of continuous the momentum stopped when the Royals scored eight runs within the sixth at Kauffman Stadium and throttled the Sox 12-5 within the sequence opener to spoil Grifol’s return to the place he was a coach the earlier 10 seasons.
The Sox received the following evening 4-2 however dropped the ultimate two of the sequence by scores of 9-1 and 4-3.
In the May 11 sequence finale, the Sox scored twice within the eighth to tie sport at 3.
But López walked Nick Pratto main off the ninth. Pratto moved to 3rd on a one-out single from Matt Duffy. Freddy Fermin squared round on the following pitch and positioned an ideal bunt in entrance of the plate. Pratto scored handy the Sox the walk-off defeat.
“We got outplayed in the series,” Grifol mentioned after the loss. “Flat out.”
June 30-July 2 at Oakland
Thanks partially to a subpar division, the Sox have been solely 4 1/2 video games out of first as they visited the lowly A’s at Oakland Coliseum for his or her last highway sequence of the primary half.
The Sox dropped the opener 7-4 after which suffered maybe their most brutal defeat of the season, falling 7-6 in 10 innings on July 1.
The Sox held a two-run lead within the eighth.
The A’s tied it on a balk and an infield hit and received it within the tenth when Tyler Wade scored from second on a fielding error by second baseman Elvis Andrus.
The Sox salvaged the sequence finale however dropped 5 of six after they returned residence to play the Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals.
A 3-6 begin after the All-Star break left them 12 video games out of first and left little doubt the Sox have been going to be sellers on the commerce deadline.
And Tuesday signified a good bigger shakeup.
“Obviously at the end of the day, we didn’t do our job on the field,” reliever Aaron Bummer mentioned Tuesday. “Forever grateful for those two men.”
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