Dylan Cease started his begin Friday with a strikeout of Brandon Lowe.
The Chicago White Sox right-hander’s outing wrapped up after he struck out Randy Arozarena for the second out of the sixth inning.
Cease was fairly good in between too.
He allowed one run on three hits with eight strikeouts and two walks in 5⅔ innings, pitching the Sox to a 3-2 win towards the Tampa Bay Rays in entrance of 19,009 at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“I felt great about this one,” Cease stated. “I thought my command and feel was a lot better (than my first start). I was executing more consistently and I felt like I was able to drive the ball where I wanted to, whereas my first start was a little bit erratic at times.”
Cease (2-0) recorded eight strikeouts for the second straight begin because the Sox took the opener of a three-game sequence between two 2021 division winners.
“He was outstanding,” Sox supervisor Tony La Russa stated. “He made so many good pitches, ranging from the primary inning proper to the sixth.
“Everything is sharper. It’s hard to imagine. He’s just making better pitches with everything.”
Third baseman Jake Burger cleared the path offensively with a solo dwelling run and an RBI single.
With the Sox main 1-0 after Gavin Sheets scored on a wild pitch within the second, Burger led off the third with the homer to left. He knocked in Leury García with a single to proper within the fifth.
Burger has 5 hits and 4 RBIs within the final three video games.
“Scouting reports, they are going to have a tough time figuring out how to pitch him,” La Russa stated. “The first fastball was neck excessive (for the house run) and the slider down and away he punched it (for the one).
“He does a lot of good things at the plate, and one of them is he can handle a lot of different pitches. He’s a tough scouting report, which is good.”
Burger gave his dad credit score for serving to with the plate protection, encouraging him to swing when he would pitch to him throughout batting follow.
“He’s like, ‘I’ve only got so many bullets in this arm,’ ” Burger stated with amusing. “I attribute it to my dad. It’s definitely part of the game that I really like.”
And he stated teammate Tim Anderson offered an awesome tip throughout the fifth-inning at-bat.
“I swung at the slider in the dirt, and TA is just like, ‘Hey, slow it down, slow it down’ from the on-deck circle,” Burger stated. “It’s really cool to have him in my ear and it helped me get that RBI.”
Burger’s scorching bat helped the Sox to a 3-0 lead.
Cease struck out two within the first, third and fifth innings. He walked Lowe to start the sixth however bought a fly out and a strikeout earlier than being taken out of the sport.
Cease exited after throwing 91 pitches. La Russa wasn’t tempted to go away him in to attempt to end the inning.
“No chance,” La Russa stated. “I imply, all people has totally different opinions, however he was on the level the place any form of stress in that sixth inning he was going to achieve again for additional. Pitch rely was only one issue. He needed to work quite a bit, it was a detailed sport.
“Err on the side of caution. You don’t push him. This is his second start of the season. You want him to be able to stay healthy strong right through. The question was just how far into the sixth would he pitch.”
Cease left with the runner on first and two outs. Back-to-back doubles off Aaron Bummer introduced the Rays inside a run.
Bummer bought the ultimate out after which struck out two in a scoreless seventh.
Kendall Graveman had two strikeouts in an ideal eighth and Liam Hendriks retired the facet so as within the ninth for his third save.
“It was a very, very tough assignment for all three of them,” La Russa stated. “Liam got the save, but Kendall, what he did, and Aaron, that’s just no room for error, and they all made a lot of great pitches.”
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