For the second consecutive recreation, the Chicago White Sox had been three outs away from a win.
And for the second straight day, the often dependable bullpen couldn’t maintain the lead.
The Miami Marlins scored three within the ninth in opposition to reliever Kendall Graveman to beat the Sox 6-5 in entrance of 20,888 on Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“This one hurts,” Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol stated. “Heartbreaker.”
Saturday, the Marlins scored 5 within the ninth to show a one-run deficit right into a four-run lead and beat the Sox 5-1.
The Sox constructed a 5-1 lead Sunday behind seven sturdy innings from Lucas Giolito (one run on six hits and eight strikeouts) and large hits by Romy Gonzalez (two-run double within the sixth) and Luis Robert Jr. (two-run homer within the seventh).
Keynan Middleton entered within the eighth with a 14-game scoreless streak. The right-hander surrendered solo dwelling runs to Jorge Soler (his second of the sport) and Garrett Cooper because the Marlins lower the Sox result in 5-3.
Jean Segura homered off the left-field foul pole to start out the ninth in opposition to Graveman, making it a one-run recreation.
Graveman, who was working his third recreation in 4 days, entered Sunday permitting no runs and three hits in his 16 earlier outings.
“The bullpen has been tremendous for us for six, seven weeks,” Grifol stated. “Graveman has been unbelievable for that period of time. So has Middleton. Those guys are human. They came in, made some good pitches. Also left some over the plate. These guys didn’t miss them.”
With one out, Jonathan Davis reached on catcher’s interference. And with two outs, Soler walked.
Bryan De La Cruz ripped a double simply previous a diving third baseman Yoán Moncada and down the third-base line. Davis scored simply and pinch runner Jon Berti slid dwelling safely simply forward of the relay throw to provide the Marlins the 6-5 lead.
“I didn’t execute,” Graveman stated. “I inform individuals on a regular basis, I’ll be ready, I knew the pitches to throw. I’ll offer you as a lot effort as humanly attainable and right now I simply didn’t suppose I executed as effectively. I can dwell with that as a result of I knew I used to be ready. There was no lack of effort there.
“Get back to executing and I think that’s why I pitched well for the past month and a half. I just didn’t do it today. They did a good job when I didn’t execute of putting the ball in play and scoring runs.”
The Sox bullpen had a 2.31 ERA in 26 video games since May 13 coming into Sunday.
“It’s a tough league, you’ve got to keep making pitches,” Graveman stated. “(Facing) the very best hitters on the earth. Thankful we went on that run, however now we’ve got to start out a brand new one.
“Tough, we’ve done some good things this year, (Middleton) and I, but today nobody feels worse than him and I. I know that to be a fact. We both feel like we could have been better and help the team win.”
The Sox acquired powerful bullpen information earlier than the sport, Liam Hendriks was positioned on the 15-day injured record with proper elbow irritation.
After taking two of three in opposition to the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium, the Sox (29-38) returned dwelling and noticed an opportunity at one other high quality collection win slip away. They stay 4½ video games out of first place within the American League Central heading again on the highway to face the Los Angeles Dodgers and Seattle Mariners.
“(Flushing it is) the only thing you can do,” Grifol stated. “The one (Saturday) took me a short while. The one right now I’m assuming goes to take me some time. But as soon as I received right here right now, (Saturday’s recreation) was over, we’re making ready for right now.
“We’ve simply received to maintain plugging alongside, we’ve received to maintain doing what we’re doing, we’re taking part in good baseball. We’ve received good pitching, good beginning pitching.
“We just need to continue to work on the things we need to work on offensively. Shrink the strike zone, get good pitches to hit. We played good defense today, Elvis (Andrus) made a hell of a play (for the first out in the ninth inning) at shortstop. We ran the bases well. We’re playing good baseball. So we just got to continue to do that as a team.”
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