Lance Lynn alternated between strikes and balls within the first 4 pitches of his outing, dealing with J.P. Crawford.
The Seattle Mariners shortstop fouled off the fifth pitch. Lynn then went to a changeup for a strikeout.
The sequence set the tone for a record-tying day for the Chicago White Sox starter.
Lynn matched the franchise report for strikeouts in a recreation, ending with 16 in seven-plus innings in a 5-1 loss to the Mariners in entrance of 44,772 on Sunday at T-Mobile Park.
“All in all my stuff was good today, but we lost,” Lynn stated. “It doesn’t matter how many you strike out, you have to win the game. It was a series loss for us and we need to win as many series as we can, and today we weren’t able to do that.”
The right-hander allowed three runs on 4 hits with two walks in seven-plus innings. The Mariners broke the sport open within the eighth with a three-run triple by Jarred Kelenic towards reliever Reynaldo López.
Lynn’s 16 strikeouts tied Jack Harshman, who established the mark on July 25, 1954, in Boston in Game 1 of a doubleheader. Lynn’s sixteenth got here within the seventh when he fanned Mike Ford to finish the inning.
“You just want to pitch well, to be honest,” Lynn stated. “You don’t actually begin fascinated by data or something, particularly like that in a single-game scenario. I didn’t know what number of I had, to be sincere with you.
“(Pitching coach) Ethan (Katz) at one point said, ‘Hey, you have a career high,’ and I said, ‘Of what.’ After that I said maybe I’ll go for a career-high pitches too.”
Lynn’s earlier excessive for strikeouts was 12, which he had completed thrice.
He had 33 swing and misses Sunday, probably the most by any pitcher in a recreation this season.
“Command was great, his sweeper was good, he was feeling his sweeper,” supervisor Pedro Grifol stated. “Pitched in, pitched away, pitched up in the zone, back-doored lefties, used his changeup. He had everything going today. Thirty-three swings and misses, that’s unheard of.”
He struck out two batters within the first, second, third, fifth and seventh. And he struck out three within the fourth and sixth.
Lynn’s outing got here when the Sox desperately wanted size. The bullpen has been taxed throughout a six-game journey that included two 11-inning video games and a shortened begin by Mike Clevinger on Wednesday due to damage.
“My goal was to make sure nobody was used,” Lynn stated. “Came just a little in need of that, however all in all I had good things. But they have been in a position to scratch out sufficient to win a recreation.
“That opportunity there is why you come to the ballpark and play the game and make sure you give everything you can and give it all. Today was all in all not bad but it was a loss.”
Lynn threw 114 pitches. He exited after Kolten Wong reached on a bunt single to start the eighth.
“He knew we needed him and that’s what makes him great,” Grifol stated. “It doesn’t matter what he’s achieved or his ERA or something like that, it’s what he’s achieved in his profession and who he’s. He knew that this membership wanted him at the moment and he took the ball into the eighth and he needed to return out.
“I can’t say enough about what he did today and what he showed in character.”
He got here in with a 6.75 ERA for the season and was 0-2 with a ten.93 ERA in his earlier three begins. It clicked Sunday.
“I threw the ball well and was mixing up pitches well and keeping them off balance,” Lynn stated. “It was working.”
While Lynn had all of it engaged on the mound, the offense couldn’t put a lot collectively.
The lone Sox run got here within the sixth on an RBI single by Andrew Benintendi. They hit the ball onerous however couldn’t discover gaps. The Sox have been lacking Tim Anderson, who was recovering from proper shoulder soreness that led to an early exit Saturday.
“You’re positive with Lance’s performance, but as an offense we understand we need to get more results and get more runs,” third baseman Jake Burger stated. “It was a great pitching performance, positive there, but frustrating offensively.”
The Sox trailed 2-1 as López pitched with one on and two outs within the eighth. He walked two and Kelenic cleared the bases with the triple.
Despite Lynn’s historic efficiency, the Sox dropped two of three within the collection and went 2-4 on the journey.
“We have to continue to work and grind this thing out until we figure some things out at the plate,” Grifol stated. “We’ve got to put the ball in the air, we’ve got to hit homers and we’ve got to get on base prior to those homers. I have confidence in these guys. Just got to continue to work.”
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