The Chicago White Sox wanted to discover a solution to maintain Jake Burger within the lineup when third baseman Yoán Moncada returned from the injured checklist Tuesday.
So the crew moved him to second base.
Regardless of the place, Burger continues to do injury on the plate.
He homered twice in Thursday’s 6-3 loss to the Cleveland Guardians in entrance of 20,893 at Guaranteed Rate Field.
“Burger (hit) the two homers, but that wasn’t enough to do what we came here to do today,” supervisor Pedro Grifol stated.
The Sox misplaced their sixth straight, which is their second-longest slide of the season. They are a season-worst 22 video games beneath .500 at 41-63.
“A lot of it is development and trying to get better in areas where you can improve,” Burger stated of the main focus transferring ahead. “Trying to stick to that and work as hard as we can and get as many wins and results as we can.”
Burger made an affect on the plate with the second multihomer recreation of his profession.
He homered in back-to-back video games for the sixth time this season. Burger is certainly one of three gamers to homer in consecutive video games six instances this season, becoming a member of Shohei Ohtani (eight) and Pete Alonso (six).
Burger has 24 residence runs, rating fifth within the American League.
“When I get my pitch in the zone, it’s when I tend to do some damage,” Burger stated. “That’s the foresight going into the final two months, making an attempt to get my pitch as a lot as I can and never chasing as a lot.
“That’s the key for most power guys, get it in the zone and get a pitch you can do something with.”
With the Sox trailing 4-0, Burger led off the third with a house run to proper discipline.
Yasmani Grandal singled to start the fifth, and Burger adopted with a house run to left-center on a first-pitch slider from Tanner Bibee to carry the Sox inside one run.
Burger is tied for third within the majors with 16 residence runs at residence.
“I just love the energy and love the fans,” Burger stated. “I feel like I see the ball really well here and it must be something to do with backgrounds at different stadiums and what not. I like the background here.”
Grifol stated the Sox wish to proceed to see Burger elevate the ball and management the strike zone.
“There’s hit-ability there,” Grifol stated. “We know the power-ability, but there is hit-ability in his tool box and we need to get that out of him. If anybody can do it, he can because his work ethic is off the charts. He’s going to work relentlessly to get that done. We’re going to see a lot of improvements from Jake Burger.”
Burger offered all of the offense. The Guardians scored one run every within the seventh and eight to drag away. The Sox have allowed no less than 5 runs in every of their final 4 video games.
Starter Dylan Cease allowed 4 runs on 9 hits with 5 strikeouts and two walks in 5 2/3 innings.
“They had a good approach and I wasn’t really getting my fastball over,” Cease stated. “As soon as I got my fastball over it changed a little bit so the main thing was not commanding the fastball well enough.”
Josh Naylor had three RBIs whereas Steven Kwan had two hits and scored twice for the Guardians, who despatched the Sox to their 14th loss of their final 18 video games.
With commerce rumors surrounding the crew and Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez dealt to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday, Cease harassed “being professional and taking the job seriously” over the last two months of the season.
“There isn’t really anything in Major League Baseball that isn’t meaningful,” Cease stated. “Just being professional.”
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