Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez hit a routine grounder to shortstop Tim Anderson, however first baseman José Abreu dropped the low throw and was charged with an error.
The fourth-inning miscue acquired the ball rolling on a two-run rally for the Royals.
That sums up how the final week has gone for the Chicago White Sox, who dropped their eighth straight in a 6-0 loss Tuesday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“You’ve got to hang in,” Sox supervisor Tony La Russa mentioned. “There have been a pair misplays right here and there. Then we made a few nice performs later to indicate we’re nonetheless taking part in. It reveals you what we’re able to.
“The biggest problem was not throwing the ball over the plate. Wind blowing in, there were some balls that weren’t going anywhere. We walked 11 guys. It was just a night where we didn’t have command, and their pitchers did.”
The Sox have struggled defensively and on the plate throughout the slide. Both points popped up once more in Tuesday’s collection opener together with an lack of ability to persistently throw strikes.
The Sox have been blanked for the primary time in 2022. They have scored three or fewer runs in 10 of their final 11 video games.
Abreu and Anderson dedicated errors, giving the Sox a major-league-high 20 this season. They’ve dedicated an error in 15 of 16 video games and 9 straight, their longest streak of sloppiness since making an error in 10 consecutive video games from June 24 to July 3, 2017.
The 11 walks have been a season excessive and matched their most since Sept. 20, 2020, in Cincinnati.
That mixture led to their first eight-game shedding streak since June 14-22, 2018.
“I see it in the dugout, they’re getting upset when they should be upset,” La Russa mentioned. “They’re making an attempt to power issues as a result of they don’t like the best way it’s going. They get annoyed once they don’t play nearly as good as they need to. All that’s a part of it, the guts and the center are intact. It’s not enjoyable. It’s robust to take.
“I’m sure the fans are not happy, but neither is the club. Everything else about the way we’re going about it — the caring, the pressing — if you have talent like this and you have to get after guys to get started or they’re walking around smiling or not working, then you’ve got the wrong people. We’ve got the right people. So we’ll be all right. The sooner the better, though, because we’re not having any fun.”
Sox starter Dallas Keuchel allowed two unearned runs on two hits with 5 walks and two strikeouts in four-plus innings.
“Tonight it started with me,” Keuchel mentioned. “I’d like to have a little bit better efficiency.”
Both unearned runs got here within the fourth. Perez scored on an infield hit by Bobby Witt Jr. when third baseman Jake Burger couldn’t subject the ball cleanly.
“I think out of peripheral I saw Witt pretty far down the line, and it probably was what caused the miscue a little bit,” Burger mentioned. “I have to be better there. My only play there is at home plate with (Perez) running. Obviously a tough play, but I have to do better.”
Carlos Santana, who reached on a stroll, scored on a grounder to first.
The Royals broke the sport open with 4 runs within the sixth. The Sox surrendered three hits, together with a two-run single by Santana, and walked 4 within the inning.
The wildness carried over from Sunday, when the Sox walked 9 in a 6-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins in 10 innings. The Sox have allowed not less than 9 walks in consecutive video games for the primary time since June 22-23, 1996, once they walked 10 Seattle Mariners the primary day and 9 the subsequent day.
Meanwhile, the Sox as soon as once more couldn’t get a lot going offensively. They have been restricted to 5 hits, two by Burger, and went 0 for five with runners in scoring place.
Royals starter Daniel Lynch allowed two hits and struck out seven in six innings.
“We win and lose as a team,” Burger mentioned. “All we can do is show up again (Wednesday) and get going. That’s the name of the game. There’s a reason why there’s 162 of them.”
The Sox are hitting .171 (12 for 70) with runners in scoring place throughout their final 13 video games and have a .194 common (37 for 191) with runners on base this season.
“Stretches like this happen during the season, more often than not, even for clubs that finish in first place,” La Russa mentioned. “I can attest to that. The actuality is it’s an actual tremendous edge within the competitors. It’s not prefer it’s actual lopsided and also you get a bit funky and it’s tremendous. You get on the incorrect aspect of it and it’s exhausting to win a recreation.
“I don’t query the expertise, don’t query the caring. We simply need to execute higher. Not get annoyed and get away from the ABCs of what now we have to do. And maintain pulling collectively, as corny because it sounds — win collectively, lose collectively, by no means give in, by no means quit. All that stuff, that’s the way you get via six months.
“Same thing if we were winning eight in a row right now. Start walking around like we got it made, the game will slap you. At this level it’s mostly between the ears. The ears, the heart, the guts. And we need to have some success to get it rolling. Like (Wednesday) afternoon.”
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