Dylan Cease didn’t make it out of the second inning. Pedro Grifol was ejected within the third.
The Chicago White Sox offense, in the meantime, put up zero after zero for the third straight sport.
It was one other robust night time for the Sox, who have been blown out by the Texas Rangers 11-1 on Wednesday in entrance of 28,735 at Globe Life Field.
“It was a rough one,” Cease stated of his begin. “Not enough strikes, not enough execution and they did a good job of hitting it.”
The Sox misplaced for the ninth time in 11 video games and are a season-high 23 video games beneath .500 at 43-66.
The tough occasions continued for the Sox offensively as they noticed a scoreless streak prolong to 26 innings earlier than Seby Zavala hit a house run with two outs within the eighth.
“We’re hitting too many groundballs,” supervisor Pedro Grifol stated. “They’re pitching us down in the zone and we’re hitting too many groundballs. We chased quite a bit today, too. We’re not putting good swings on hittable pitches and we’re chasing pitches that are not in the strike zone.”
Zavala’s residence run was the workforce’s first run for the reason that seventh inning of Saturday’s 7-2 win in opposition to the Cleveland Guardians. They misplaced 5-0 to the Guardians on Sunday and 2-0 to the Rangers on Tuesday, the second time that they had been blanked in consecutive video games this season.
The residence run additionally snapped a streak of 21 straight retired by former Sox Dane Dunning. The Rangers right-hander allowed one run on three hits with 11 strikeouts and one stroll in 7 2/3 innings.
The Sox have struck out 18 occasions within the first two video games of the sequence (16 on Tuesday and 12 on Wednesday). They have seven hits (three Tuesday and 4 Wednesday).
“Things aren’t going great for us right now, so we are going to have to figure out how to get out of it and have some fun because if you don’t have fun, it’s going to be miserable for a few months,” Zavala stated.
By the time Zavala hit his residence run, the Rangers have been effectively in command.
Cease surrendered a two-run residence run to Corey Seager within the first. He threw 45 pitches throughout a five-run second inning for the Rangers, exiting with two outs.
“(His) stuff seemed to be OK, but it’s hard to tell when you don’t have command,” Grifol stated. “You have to command your fastball. It’s tough to pitch off your offspeed pitches. That’s the biggest thing for me. Every time he’s had really good outings, he’s commanded his fastball. And that’s a really important thing for every pitcher. Just got to get back to work and command the fastball.”
Cease threw 79 pitches in his outing, permitting seven runs on seven hits with three walks and one strikeout in 1 2/3 innings.
“(My stuff) was pretty good,” Cease stated. “It wasn’t super consistent with the slider but the other stuff was pretty sharp.”
It’s been a busy week for Cease, whose identify was talked about in commerce hypothesis.
“I felt focused today so I don’t think that affected me in any way,” he stated.
Grifol argued calls throughout the center of the third inning and was ejected by Adam Hamari. It was Grifol’s fourth time getting tossed from a sport this season.
“The (second) inning he missed a couple of pitches,” Grifol stated. “He missed one essential one in opposition to (Adolis) García, that I believed was a strike, that I do know was a strike. And I believed he missed one other one off (Luis) Robert (Jr.). Missed just a few extra off different hitters and I simply wished to ensure that he knew that I do know he was lacking pitches.
“I wanted him to just make adjustments. Obviously they have to do a job, too. And he feels he was calling a good game and I felt he was calling a bad game. Pretty simple. His opinion, my opinion.”
As the slide continues, the workforce is engaged on methods to get out of the rut.
“We’ve had fun at points, but we just have to do it more consistently because coming to the field when you are losing every day, it really sucks,” Zavala stated. “We have to figure it out.”
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