Adam Engel raced into foul territory, making an attempt to trace down the ultimate out Thursday in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles.
But the Chicago White Sox left fielder, who entered as a defensive substitute within the eighth with the Sox main by a run, couldn’t dangle on to the ball as he neared the facet wall.
“My job is to come in and play solid defense, especially late in games,” Engel mentioned. “That’s a play I count on to make.
“Just got to squeeze that one.”
Kyle Stowers’ at-bat with two outs within the ninth continued. And he made the Sox pay two pitches later, hitting a game-tying solo dwelling run off nearer Liam Hendriks.
The recreation went to further innings, and Anthony Santander drove in Cedric Mullins with a single within the eleventh in opposition to reliever Jake Diekman to present the Orioles a 4-3 victory in entrance of 13,905 at Camden Yards.
It was a devastating defeat for the Sox, who misplaced two of three within the sequence.
“That was completely on me with the pitch selection,” Hendriks mentioned. “It was a pitch that I very hardly ever throw within the zone and sadly hung that one and he received it. It’s by no means a superb feeling, however particularly in a recreation like (Thursday) the place we have been grinding by way of.
“We’re down and we were able to take that lead late. My job is to come in and close the door, and I wasn’t able to do that.”
The Sox remained tied for second with the Minnesota Twins within the American League Central, 4 video games behind the division-leading Cleveland Guardians.
“Wasn’t anything wrong with the way we played today,” Sox supervisor Tony La Russa mentioned. “Just got beat.”
And in a season stuffed with accidents, the Sox completed Thursday with out beginning third baseman Yoán Moncada, who left within the backside of the fifth with left hamstring tightness. The Sox mentioned he’s day after day.
Moncada acquired a go to from the coaching employees after making a fantastic fielding play on a Terrin Vavra bunt to start the second inning. Moncada singled within the fourth for his second hit of the sport however seemed to be favoring his leg as he made his method to first base.
Romy Gonzalez entered within the fifth to play second whereas Josh Harrison shifted from second to 3rd.
The Sox knotted the sport at 2 within the seventh when Gonzalez singled and later scored on a throwing error. They went forward an inning later when José Abreu drove in Gavin Sheets with a two-out single to left.
Hendriks retired the primary two within the ninth, and Stowers hit the foul down the left-field line on the primary pitch of his at-bat.
“I just think it was amazing that he got that far,” La Russa mentioned of Engel. “He had a long way to run, and the ball popped out. But it wasn’t an easy play.”
It was the third error of the sport for the Sox. The first, when Abreu didn’t cleanly discipline an Adley Rutschman grounder within the first inning, preceded Santander’s two-run homer that gave the Orioles a 2-1 lead.
Hendriks received forward 0-2, getting a swinging strike. He went with a curveball, and Stowers related for the house run.
Hendriks put the sequence on himself.
“At the end of the day, it was just a foul ball,” he mentioned. “I need to make a pitch and I had him exactly where I wanted to and I didn’t execute, and that’s on me. That’s not on anybody else. It’s on me.”
The Sox have been retired so as within the tenth and eleventh. In the eleventh, Luis Robert, who had one-handed swings the final couple of video games, had one other throughout his at-bat that ended with a strikeout.
“It hurts a lot every time that I have a bad swing,” mentioned Robert by way of an interpreter. He had missed time from Aug. 13-19, restricted to pinch-running duties in a single recreation due to a sprained left wrist.
Asked if he thought-about taking Robert out in some unspecified time in the future within the recreation, La Russa mentioned: “You see the three days when he gets one on the nose he still belts it. Hit a long fly ball. A lot has to do with the pitching he was facing.”
Joe Kelly received the Sox out of a jam within the tenth, holding the Orioles from scoring after that they had runners on the corners and no outs.
Rutschman singled to start the eleventh in opposition to Diekman, with the automated runner, Mullins, advancing to 3rd. Santander adopted with the game-winning hit to middle.
“Show up (Friday) and get after it again,” mentioned Sox starter Lance Lynn, who allowed one earned run on three hits in six innings. “Just come from a (2-4) highway journey, form of a bizarre one with the make-up recreation in the midst of it (Monday at Kansas City, Mo.).
“Go home, regroup and we have a three-series homestand (against Arizona, Kansas City and Minnesota), so we’ve got to make a run here when we get home.”
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