The Guaranteed Rate Field crowd knew the magnitude of the second as José Abreu confronted Emmanuel Clase with the tying run on second within the tenth inning Tuesday.
Abreu singled to right-center, scoring Elvis Andrus to offer the Chicago White Sox hope in a must-win scenario towards the Cleveland Guardians.
The recreation went to the eleventh, the place all of it fell aside for the Sox. The Guardians scored 5 runs within the inning and received 10-7 in entrance of 23,242.
“We played, we fought, just didn’t get it done,” Sox outfielder AJ Pollock mentioned. “It’s frustrating, but it’s baseball and get back at it (Wednesday).”
Myles Straw broke the 5-5 tie with a two-run double towards Jake Diekman. Steven Kwan adopted with an RBI single, José Ramírez introduced in a run with a sacrifice fly and the fifth run scored on a stolen base/throwing error because the Guardians handed the Sox a devastating defeat within the American League Central race.
The Sox path the Guardians by 5 video games.
“The whole game, that’s on me,” performing supervisor Miguel Cairo mentioned. “We lost so that’s on me. Our players fought really hard and they did their job. I didn’t do my job.”
When requested, Cairo didn’t provide specifics.
“I should have made better moves,” he mentioned. “We lost the game so it’s on me.”
Pollock didn’t agree with that evaluation.
“We had a bunch of stuff,” Pollock mentioned. “I had a cool (defensive) play within the (second). Trying to make an aggressive play and obtained caught in a bizarre spot, and it was most likely a double and it ended up being a triple, and the run that ended up scoring was a giant run.
“A couple missed opportunities throughout the game. A couple defensive miscues. It was execution on our end for sure. (Cairo), I thought he did a good job of getting the guys out there and putting guys in the right spots. We just didn’t win.”
The evening started after a 40-minute rain delay with AL Cy Young Award candidate Dylan Cease on the mound for the Sox. He obtained by some early bumps and allowed one run on 4 hits with three strikeouts and three walks in six innings.
“I feel like we were ready,” Cease mentioned. “I think if anything me not being efficient, if I’m efficient maybe I go seven or eight and save some arms. I would say that’s as big of a reason as why we lost as anything.”
He obtained defensive assist from second baseman Josh Harrison, who made spectacular performs — one on a grounder and the opposite a mushy liner — to rob Amed Rosario of two hits.
The run Cease allowed got here within the second. Andrés Giménez started the inning with a slicer to left. Pollock tripped whereas working for the ball, and Giménez reached third for a triple. He scored on a sacrifice fly to proper by Austin Hedges.
Pollock performed a job in serving to the Sox take the lead within the sixth.
Andrus led off the inning with a single. He stole second, a name that was upheld after a video problem by the Guardians. Yoán Moncada walked and the Guardians changed starter Aaron Civale with reliever Nick Sandlin.
Abreu obtained hit by Sandlin’s first pitch, loading the bases for Eloy Jiménez, who tied the sport with a single to middle.
Andrew Vaughn struck out, bringing Pollock to the plate with the bases loaded and one out. Pollock hit a grounder to second that seemed like it will be an inning-ending double play.
Giménez tossed the ball to Rosario for the pressure at second, however Rosario’s throw to first skipped previous Owen Miller. Two runs scored in the course of the sequence to make it 3-1.
The Guardians took benefit of consecutive walks to begin the seventh by reliever Jimmy Lambert to tie the sport.
Kwan drove in a run with a single towards reliever Aaron Bummer, and with two outs and runners on the corners, Ramírez hit a grounder deep within the gap at quick and simply beat Andrus’ throw to first. A run scored on the infield hit, tying the sport at 3.
Rosario tried to interrupt the tie by scoring from second on Josh Naylor’s infield hit. Andrus made a diving cease within the outfield grass and threw to the plate. Catcher Seby Zavala utilized the tag, and Rosario was known as out to finish the inning.
He appeared to beat the tag, however the Guardians couldn’t problem, having misplaced the sixth-inning assessment.
Naylor’s RBI single and a sacrifice fly to middle by Oscar Gonzalez gave the Guardians a 5-3 lead in tenth.
The Sox obtained inside a run when Zavala scored on a fielder’s alternative. Andrus reached first on the play and stole second. Abreu drove him in with the hit on a 1-2 pitch to tie the sport at 5.
“It wasn’t lack of effort,” Pollock mentioned. “I think we went out there and gave it everything. Definitely had a chance to make up some ground and we didn’t.”
Pollock hit a two-run homer within the backside of the eleventh — the 1,000th hit of his profession — however the Sox didn’t get nearer and now discover themselves in an enormous gap with 14 video games remaining within the common season.
In addition to the five-game lead, the Guardians secured the tiebreaker towards the Sox. They have a 10-7 edge with two conferences remaining.
“We know where we’re at,” Pollock mentioned. “We know the scenario. The objective was to win the primary recreation. I’ve been in conditions the place the maths doesn’t appear proper. The secret is to simply win that subsequent recreation. The staff above you feels that.
“If we can get them to feel that, it’s a fundamentally sound ballclub but let’s see what they feel like when you get a little closer and feel us. That’s the goal. We’ve got to win the series, got to win (Wednesday) in order to have a chance of that, and just keep fighting.”
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