Chicago White Sox starter Dylan Cease struck out Mickey Moniak swinging on 5 pitches to start the sixth inning Monday at Angel Stadium.
Cease then struck out Mike Trout, additionally swinging and in addition on 5 pitches.
Cease wrapped up the inning by putting out Shohei Ohtani swinging in a seven-pitch at-bat.
Cease struck out 10 Los Angeles Angels batters in six-plus innings. But he left with the rating tied and runners on first and second after consecutive singles to start the seventh.
The Sox obtained out of that jam, with Joe Kelly getting a strikeout and an inning-ending double play.
But sadly for the Sox, they couldn’t repeat the feat within the ninth. Instead, they discovered one other robust option to lose, falling 2-1 to the Angels in entrance of 28,554.
The Sox misplaced and not using a ball being put into play within the ninth. Reynaldo López started the inning strolling Trout. Aaron Bummer entered and walked Ohtani. Each moved up a base on a double steal.
And with one out, Trout scored the successful run on a wild pitch.
“That is tough but at the same time one run is not going to cut it,” Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol mentioned. “We should put factors on the board and that’s simply the best way it’s. It’s robust on this league to win 1-0. What occurred, occurred, that ninth inning will get magnified however we have now to push some runs throughout the board.
“I’m not going to magnify that ninth inning. We had opportunities. We have to get back to work tomorrow.”
The beginning pitchers held each offenses in verify.
Cease allowed one run on 5 hits with 10 strikeouts and no walks in his six-plus innings.
“(I) felt good,” Cease mentioned. “Not having any walks, I had good command of multiple pitches. Definitely a good night.”
Cease mentioned the important thing was executing.
“It’s just good to attack and be aggressive and get outs in the zone and strikeouts are great as well,” Cease mentioned. “I just had to work on some mechanical adjustments. I was opening up a little bit. I had to figure out how to train myself to stay closed and it took a little bit, but I feel like I’m in a really good spot.”
Angels starter Reid Detmers allowed one run on two hits with 10 strikeouts and two walks in seven innings.
The one run got here within the first on a house run by Luis Robert Jr. It was his twenty second of the season, and third in 4 at-bats stretching again to the 2 he hit in Sunday’s 4-1 win in opposition to the Boston Red Sox.
Robert had two of the group’s three hits Monday.
Cease solely made one mistake, surrendering a house run to Ohtani within the fourth. It was Ohtani’s fourth homer in opposition to the Sox this season.
“(Cease) had everything going,” Grifol mentioned. “He was strong, he had a good slider, tunneled it well, left one pitch over the plate and Ohtani did what he normally does with those mistakes. Other than that, he was mistake-free the rest of the game.”
Both groups had rallies fizzle out.
The Sox had an opportunity within the fifth when Andrew Vaughn singled and Jake Burger walked to start the inning. Clint Frazier, Elvis Andrus and Seby Zavala struck out to finish the risk.
“We had opportunities today,” Grifol mentioned.
The Angels had the chance within the seventh, however Kelly struck out Taylor Ward and the second baseman Andrus made a pleasant backhanded play to begin a 4-6-3 double play on a grounder by Matt Thaiss to maintain the rating tied at 1.
It remained that method till the wild ninth.
“Obviously losing is always tough,” Cease mentioned. “But, I’m proud of how we fought. It was a close game and sometimes that’s just the way they end.”
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