If you spent the $20-$30 needed to attend today\u2019s game as a spectator, you would\u2019ve walked away having gotten your money\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n
It was a back and forth battle at Hohokam Stadium! The White Sox got to A\u2019s starter Jeffrey Springs early, in the first inning Edgar Quero and Lenyn Sosa would do some damage. A run scoring single and a double between the two would give the South Siders a 3-0 lead before the A\u2019s even picked up a bat.<\/p>\n
That 3-0 lead would be short lived though. In the bottom half of the first, the A\u2019s answered right back with a an RBI double and single of their own – – thanks to Brent Rooker and Jeff McNeil. <\/p>\n
After a quiet second inning for both clubs, the White Sox would strike – – three times – – all off of one swing by Korey Lee. Miguel Vargas and Jarred Kelenic both scored on the dinger. Springs would not return for the fourth inning. His day ends with the troubling line of 2.2 IP, 4H, 6ER, 3 BB, and 3K :\/<\/p>\n
Tough day for the A\u2019s southpaw but us fans have grown custom to poor pitching performances by our starting pitchers this spring.<\/p>\n
Thankfully the offense has been cartoonishly hot. Three solo home runs by Brent Rooker, Nick Kurtz, and Shea Langeliers had the game all tied up by the end of the fourth inning. That lead, however, would be short lived thanks to a Derek Hill RBI single off of Mark Leiter Jr. in the top of the fifth.<\/p>\n
That would be the last of the offensive damage for the White Sox. They\u2019d carry that 7-6 lead up until the bottom of the seventh, where the Non-roster trio of Tommy White, Michael Stefanic, and Cade Marlowe tied it all up, leading to a Jared Dickey single that brought Stefanic and Marlowe home, making it 9-7 A\u2019s.<\/p>\n
For good measure, the A\u2019s tacked on two more runs in the bottom of the eighth. Tommy White\u2019s single scored Leo De Vries, who just missed a home run. White would then be brought in on a Cade Marlowe fielder\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n
Final score sits 11-7, A\u2019s over the White Sox. They\u2019ll be back at it against the Arizona Diamondbacks tomorrow. Right now, the pitching matchup is scheduled to be Luis Morales vs. Ryne Nelson. This\u2019ll be Morales\u2019 fourth outing so far this spring. Let\u2019s hope he can build off of the small flashes of success he experienced last week against the Angels.<\/p>\n
For those of you tuning in to tonight\u2019s USA vs. Team Italy WBC game, feel free to keep the conversation going below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you spent the $20-$30 needed to attend today\u2019s game as a spectator, you would\u2019ve walked away having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[264466,264467,64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-532694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-as-game-recaps","tag-athletics-scores-and-standings","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}