Eloy Jiménez had a message for Chicago White Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol.
“He texted me when he had the surgery: ‘I’ll be back soon,’” Grifol mentioned Sunday.
Jiménez underwent an appendectomy May 6 in Cincinnati. He returned Sunday and helped put the Sox in place to separate their four-game sequence towards the Detroit Tigers.
Jiménez was a key determine throughout a four-run seventh, driving in two with a double and scoring a run to present the Sox the lead.
But the Tigers tied it within the ninth and received it an inning later as Spencer Torkelson scored on a Eric Haase’s sacrifice fly to middle handy the Sox a troublesome 6-5 loss in entrance of twenty-two,644 at Comerica Park.
The Sox couldn’t maintain a late lead for the second consecutive sport and misplaced three of 4 within the sequence.
“Tough game,” Grifol mentioned. “We did a great job hanging in there the last two games. We felt we had the right matchups out there and we did some good things, just didn’t happen.”
For some time, it regarded like Jiménez would play an enormous function in a win. He went 1-for-3 with two RBIs and two walks.
His authentic projected return was 4 to 6 weeks. He was again in a little bit greater than three weeks.
“Every time I got hurt, I come back earlier than what people think,” Jiménez mentioned earlier than Sunday’s sport. “I always have the mentality, every time that I say this is going to happen quick, I put the effort and I’m here.”
Jiménez made outstanding progress in a brief period of time.
“I know for a fact his mindset was coming back sooner rather than later,” Grifol mentioned Sunday morning. “From being around guys that have that mindset going into the rehab, they seem to be able to get it done. The mind is an unbelievable thing. It doesn’t surprise me.”
Jiménez batted with the bases loaded, one out and the Sox trailing 4-1 within the seventh. He blooped a double to left and two runs scored to chop the deficit to at least one.
Luis Robert Jr. hit a grounder to 3rd and Tim Anderson bought an ideal break from third and scored forward of the throw to the plate to tie the sport.
Jiménez superior to 3rd on the play and scored on Andrew Vaughn’s sacrifice fly to left — full with a headfirst slide house — to present the Sox a 5-4 lead.
The Sox took a one-run lead within the seventh Saturday solely to see the Tigers rally for a 7-3 win.
Sunday, Kendall Graveman adopted a robust aid effort by Keynan Middleton with a 1-2-3 eighth, needing simply six pitches.
The Sox turned to Joe Kelly within the ninth.
“We talked about that early and we liked the pocket in the eighth,” Grifol mentioned. “We liked the pocket in the ninth. Kelly’s been one of the best pitchers in baseball the last three, four weeks, if not the best. I’m certainly not going to shy away from Kelly in that situation.”
With one out, Riley Greene hit a liner to middle. Robert slid to attempt to cease the ball, but it surely bought previous him and Greene reached third on a triple.
“I think originally he broke to catch it,” Grifol mentioned. “He makes plays like that. That ball was sinking in hard and he tried his best to keep it in front of him and he couldn’t.”
The Sox introduced within the infield and Javier Báez hit a grounder to Anderson at shortstop. He bobbled it briefly and made the play at first. Greene, occurring contact, scored to tie the sport.
“Those are tough plays,” Grifol mentioned. ”It’s contact, the ball’s coming at you.”
The Tigers manufactured the successful run towards Reynaldo López within the tenth because the Sox (22-33) noticed an opportunity to realize floor on the first-place Minnesota Twins slip away and stay six video games again within the American League Central.
“We’ve won games, but we still have to do a lot of the little things right,” Kelly mentioned. “It’s baseball and you get a chance to come do it again tomorrow.”
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