One has to return some time to discover a worse begin to a Chicago White Sox season.
As in 1986.
The Sox dropped their sixth straight recreation Tuesday, getting blanked by the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 in entrance of 28,917 at Rogers Centre.
The Sox are 10 video games beneath .500. At 7-17, they’ve matched their begin in 1986.
“It hurts to lose a major-league game,” supervisor Pedro Grifol mentioned. “It hurts to lose six in a row. It hurts. There’s loads of care in right here. People care about successful.
“We’ve just got to work. We’ve got to continue to work. We can’t let this thing break us and it won’t.”
The loss assured the Sox received’t win the sequence. They are 0-7-1 in sequence this season.
Tuesday’s recreation started to slide away within the second. Sox starter Mike Clevinger walked the primary two batters. With one out, Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer.
“Got excited after the first inning, felt I was getting back to where I was pre-Tommy John,” Clevinger mentioned. “And I think I let that excitement get the best of me (in the second). I went out there and put myself behind in the count and started overthrowing balls, and by the time I tried to climb back, it was kind of too late.”
A leadoff stroll led to the primary of three extra runs within the fourth.
“Walks will kill you, man,” Grifol mentioned. “We’ve just got to attack the strike zone with the stuff that we have. We’ve got good stuff. We have good pitchers and we’ve just got to do a really good job of attacking the strike zone and let it fall where it falls. It’s mano-a-mano, attack the strike zone and see what happens.”
Clevinger allowed six runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and three walks in 5 innings.
Jansen hit a solo homer off reliever Tanner Banks within the sixth. He was additionally behind the plate as José Berríos and two relievers mixed for the shutout.
“We just didn’t get pitches to hit, and if we did, we didn’t do anything with them,” Grifol mentioned. “From my view, (Berríos) mixed it up pretty good. The pitches we did get to hit, we either fouled them off or hit them on the ground. We didn’t square them up the way we’re capable of doing.”
Berríos allowed 4 hits, struck out 9 and walked one in seven innings.
“He was spotting up pretty well,” mentioned Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi, who was 1-for-4. “He had good stuff for sure.”
After being held to 3 hits Sunday towards the Tampa Bay Rays and once more in Monday’s sequence opener towards the Blue Jays, the Sox collected simply 4 Tuesday — all singles.
“(Berríos) had a pretty good fastball,” Grifol mentioned. “His changeup, he threw right-on-right, which was a fairly good pitch for him. He’s usually fastball-slider. He combined in his changeup towards right-handers (Tuesday), which was a very good pitch.
“I don’t think we chased that much (Tuesday). It’s just one of those days where we got good pitches to hit and weren’t able to square them up.”
The Sox completed the sport with out catcher Yasmani Grandal, who exited after his seventh-inning at-bat with what Grifol mentioned “seems like a little of a (back) spasm.”
“He’s going to be day to day,” Grifol mentioned. “Right now we think he’s going to be all right, but we’ll see how he comes in (Wednesday).”
The Sox had been shut out for the second time this season. They’ve misplaced eight of 9 and 11 of 13.
“Just got to keep working,” Benintendi mentioned. “We’re going through a tough part of the schedule. Stuff is not going our way, we’re not executing, A lot of things not going our way, but it’s a long season. We can turn it around.”
Benintendi mentioned that mindset is necessary.
“Once you start getting negative, you might as well just go home,” he mentioned. “If you’re negative you’re not going to win games. Have to look forward to doing what you can to help the team win.”
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