It was a homestand to neglect for the Chicago White Sox.
Six video games. Six losses.
And to prime it off, the staff’s pursuit of the American League Central title is formally over after Sunday’s 4-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers in entrance of 33,549 at Guaranteed Rate Field.
The Cleveland Guardians, who started the Sox’s slide Tuesday, are division champions.
“It’s obviously very disappointing,” Sox starter Dylan Cease stated.
The Sox started the season as the favored decide not solely to win the division, but additionally to compete for a shot on the World Series. Now they’re on the verge of lacking the playoffs fully, trailing the Seattle Mariners for the ultimate wild-card spot by 7½ video games with 9 to go.
“We definitely didn’t play up to our ability,” Cease stated.
Asked concerning the week, which featured three losses to the Guardians and three to the Tigers, appearing supervisor Miguel Cairo described Sunday as “the worst.”
“That’s not acceptable,” Cairo stated. “That’s not baseball. That’s not what the Chicago White Sox are about. It was terrible.”
Asked if it was about execution or effort, Cairo stated: “You can put it either way. Execution. Effort. Everything.”
The Sox squandered a powerful outing from AL Cy Young Award candidate Cease, who allowed 4 hits in six scoreless innings.
The Tigers tied the sport with a run within the seventh and scored three extra within the eighth to finish the sweep.
“You’ve got to come back Tuesday (in Minnesota),” Cairo stated. “So they higher convey some effort. It was form of embarrassing.
“You saw for six series the way you are supposed to play the game. And you saw (Sunday), it was a totally different team. There’s nine more games. Got to finish strong and hard.”
The Sox have been outscored 16-6 within the Tigers sequence.
“If you watch (Sunday’s) game, that was bad besides Cease,” Cairo stated. “(He) pitched really good and kept us in the game.”
Cease described his outing as “all right.”
“I want my fastball command to be better, but I did a good job grinding,” stated Cease, who had 5 strikeouts and three walks. “It was one of those grind games. It was good enough.”
Cease started the day second within the majors in ERA and opponents common, fourth in strikeouts per 9 innings and fifth in strikeouts.
He acquired defensive assist in the second with a leaping catch by left fielder AJ Pollock on the wall to rob the Tigers’ Kerry Carpenter. Cease made a giant pitch in a giant spot within the fifth, getting Javier Báez to come out to catcher Seby Zavala with the bases loaded for the ultimate out.
The Tigers loaded the bases with no outs within the sixth. Cease induced a double play as Jonathan Schoop grounded to 3rd. Yoán Moncada threw to the plate to get the lead runner and Zavala fired to first to get Schoop.
Jeimer Candelario flied out to middle because the Sox maintained a 1-0 lead.
“He’s been pitching like that all year round, and it was good to see him give us a chance to win,” Cairo stated.
The Tigers tied the sport on an RBI double by Victor Reyes in opposition to Reynaldo López. They scored three runs within the eighth in opposition to Kendall Graveman.
After the disastrous week, the Sox are left to ponder what went flawed in a misplaced season.
“It was tough,” Cease stated. “After a disappointing season, for it to be form of capped off by this, it’s robust. I nonetheless like us to complete robust with our final 9.
“We’re definitely disappointed. We take the game serious. We compete, so when you compete and it doesn’t work out, it’s frustrating. We’re disappointed, but we’ve got a lot of professional guys here, a lot of guys with a lot of big-league time. We’re not sulking. We’re showing up to play the rest of the games.”
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