It was again to baseball Sunday for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Guardians.
Only a couple of hours after a prolonged brawl within the sixth inning of Saturday’s recreation, the groups returned to Progressive Field to conclude the weekend — and season — sequence.
The Sox staged a ninth-inning rally, scoring three runs with two outs for a 5-3 victory in entrance of 27,305.
The Sox benefited from two throwing errors by third baseman Brayan Rocchio, the second of which introduced house the tying run. Elvis Andrus adopted with a two-run single up the center in opposition to Emmanuel Clase, one of many six individuals ejected Saturday.
“A lot of guts. They fought to the very end,” Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol mentioned. “They ran hard, they played hard. Overall it was a great team win.”
Andrus had a giant day with three hits and a pleasant play at shortstop within the ninth on a grounder by Oscar Gonzalez. The Sox obtained six stable innings from Jesse Scholtens (two earned runs on six hits) to take two of three within the sequence.
Sammy Peralta earned his first major-league win and Jimmy Lambert obtained his first major-league save.
“Obviously what happened yesterday happened,” Scholtens mentioned. “I went on the market understanding everyone on this clubhouse goes to have one another’s again it doesn’t matter what occurs.
“We kind of united around that. You saw the fight (from the team Sunday). It reassures us, ‘Hey, we’re all in this together.’”
There had been no extracurricular actions like those on Saturday that includes Sox shortstop Tim Anderson and Guardians third baseman José Ramírez.
Ramírez doubled to proper with one out within the sixth Saturday and made a headfirst slide into second, the place Anderson utilized the tag. Words had been exchanged earlier than Anderson and Ramírez squared off close to second base and traded swings.
Ramírez landed a proper haymaker that leveled Anderson. The benches cleared. It took 14 minutes to revive order.
Anderson was not within the lineup Sunday; Grifol mentioned it was a scheduled break day. Ramírez was the Guardians designated hitter.
The theme Sunday morning for the Sox was pushing forward.
“We’ve got to move forward from it,” mentioned first baseman Andrew Vaughn, one of many gamers restraining Anderson throughout a portion of the scuffle. “It’s baseball. Guys have high tempers sometimes, both sides, and things got a little heated. Maybe got away from us a little bit.”
Grifol known as Saturday’s 7-4 victory “an emotional win.”
“Everybody was out there fighting for each other and protecting each other,” he mentioned earlier than Sunday’s recreation. “It was a much-needed win. Could it have been the best win of the year? Possibly. They’re all really good, no matter what. But there were a lot of emotions. If you’re basing it on emotions, yeah, it was the best win of the year.”
Injury-wise, Grifol mentioned the Sox got here out of the brawl “in a good spot.” He mentioned Anderson, who was unavailable to the media earlier than and after Sunday’s recreation, was “doing good.”
“He was going to get a day off today like (Andrew Benintendi) and Vaughn,” Grifol mentioned. “It just so happens it might not look that way, but it is what it is.”
Grifol didn’t wish to talk about any of the particulars from Saturday’s incident.
“I’ve had my conversations with Tim, but I’m not going to get into anything that happened last night,” he mentioned. “I’ll let MLB handle all that stuff. I’m not going to talk about the fight.”
Everyone is awaiting phrase from Major League Baseball on doable self-discipline for anybody concerned. In addition to Anderson, Ramírez and Clase, Guardians supervisor Terry Francona and third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh and Grifol had been ejected.
“Until they come in and tell us who’s getting suspended — if somebody’s getting suspended — it’s business as usual,” Grifol mentioned. “They’ve got some things they have to take care of, videos they have to look at and people they have to talk to. They’ll come up with the right thing.”
Seby Zavala positioned on IL
Before Sunday’s recreation, the Sox positioned catcher Seby Zavala on the 10-day injured listing with a strained left indirect and recalled catcher Carlos Pérez from Triple-A Charlotte.
“We don’t think it’s too serious, but it’s definitely enough to bring Carlos in,” Grifol mentioned. “Hopefully it begins getting higher rapidly and we are able to get him again.
“We’re going to give (Pérez) some (playing) time. As an organization we need to see him play. He can swing the bat a little bit, he did some good things behind the plate. We’re going to test him a little bit and see what he’s got.”
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