The Chicago White Sox performed their a hundredth sport of the season Saturday.
Add the 3-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins to the lengthy listing of how they’ve come up quick in 2023.
A stroll and an infield hit sparked a two-run rally that put the Twins forward within the seventh inning. The Sox couldn’t capitalize on alternatives the ultimate two innings on the best way to falling a season-high 18 video games below .500 at 41-59.
“We did some good things except win a game,” supervisor Pedro Grifol stated. “And at this level, the bottom line is to win baseball games.”
The Sox acquired six sturdy innings from starter Dylan Cease. They used their legs to generate two runs, together with Tim Anderson swiping house on a double steal.
But the large hits eluded them late, dropping in entrance of 30,894 at Target Field.
“Disappointing loss,” Cease stated. “We stayed in it to the end, we battled and, unfortunately, we didn’t come away with it.”
The Sox led 2-1 coming into the seventh. With one out, reliever Keynan Middleton walked Byron Buxton, who stole second. Kyle Farmer reached on an infield hit on a sluggish tapper to 3rd.
Christian Vázquez tied the rating on a double towards reliever Gregory Santos. The Sox introduced the infield in and Michael A. Taylor singled sharply up the center on a 3-2 pitch to provide the Twins the 3-2 lead.
“Buxton is in scoring position right at home plate,” Grifol stated. “He can hit the ball out of the ballpark at any time. He was careful and just ended up walking him. We had a chance to throw him out as well. It was a good throw by (catcher) Seby (Zavala), I think he would have been out. Maybe not out on the stolen base, but out on the overslide where he came off the bag. We didn’t make that play right there. And Vázquez and Taylor put together good at-bats.”
The rally meant one other no resolution for Cease, who allowed one run on three hits with 9 strikeouts and two walks in six innings.
“I had a pretty good feel for three of my pitches,” Cease stated. “Decent fastball command, just being able to throw pitches in the zone and put away pitches when I needed to.”
Cease has not factored in a call in 9 of his final 10 begins.
“Cease pitched a hell of a game today,” Grifol stated.
Both Sox runs got here within the third.
Anderson stood at third and Luis Robert Jr. at first after singles. Robert tried a stolen base. As quickly as Anderson noticed the catcher Vázquez’s throw head towards second, he took off for house.
Robert was secure at second and Anderson simply accomplished the double steal.
Anderson grew to become the primary Sox participant to be credited with stealing house since Billy Hamilton on Sept. 26, 2021, in Cleveland. In that double-steal sequence, Anderson acquired in a rundown between first and second, permitting Hamilton to make it house.
Robert scored on an RBI single to proper by Yasmani Grandal. It was Grandal’s eighth RBI in his final 5 video games.
Carlos Correa’s RBI double within the third reduce the Sox result in 2-1.
The Twins made probably the most of their possibilities within the seventh. The Sox simply couldn’t get the large hit within the ultimate two innings.
They had runners on second and third with one out within the eighth. Griffin Jax broke Jake Burger’s bat whereas getting him to line out softly to first. Jax struck out Gavin Sheets to finish the inning.
Oscar Colás reached on an infield hit to start the ninth. With two outs, Anderson additionally collected an infield hit.
That arrange the terrific matchup of Robert towards Jhoan Duran. The nearer gained that spherical, placing out Robert on a 102.5-mph fastball to finish the sport.
The Sox trial the first-place Twins by 11 video games within the American League Central. And they’re 18 below .500 for the primary time since Sept. 28, 2019 (71-89).
“The top five guys in the order got on base 11 times,” Grifol stated. “We have been 1-for-(9) with runners in scoring place. It’s laborious to win that manner, particularly on the street.
“We’ve got to be able to knock those guys in. (Did some) good things, but we didn’t win. All that matters is that ‘W’ in the win column.”
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