The White Sox owe the Guardians a fruit basket because after another Bronx beatdown, Chicago is barely clinging to first. The Sox got thumped, dropping to 38-34 and torching their positive run differential on the way out.<\/p>\n
The night started with some promise. Miguel Vargas, still glowing from his MLB Network cameo with Mark DeRosa, ripped a two-out double in the first.<\/p>\n
Then Colson Montgomery battled for 12 pitches, only to pop out. Cue the Yankees: Anthony Kay got two quick outs, then Amed Rosario doubled, and Cody Bellinger smashed a two-run shot to right-center. Just like that, 2-0 hole.<\/p>\n
The Sox had their shots, but the clutch hits never came. In the second, Everson Pereira drew a leadoff walk and Edgar Quero singled, only to watch Braden Montgomery bounce into a rally-killing double play. Meanwhile, Kay continued struggling with his command. Jos\u00e9 Caballero reached after being hit by a pitch in the second, Anthony Volpe tripled him home, and Ali S\u00e1nchez added an RBI single, and suddenly it\u2019s 4-0 Yankees. Kay burned through 52 pitches just to escape two innings.<\/p>\n
Finally, some life in the third. Chase Meidroth and Randal Grichuk singled, then Colson yanked a pitch from Carlos Rod\u00f3n into the short porch for a three-run bomb. Suddenly it\u2019s 4-3.<\/p>\n
Kay battled in the bottom half, managing to strand Bellinger at third after a leadoff double, getting a groundout, a strikeout, and a popped-up bunt to escape.<\/p>\n
But missed chances for the South Siders were the story. Quero singled in the fourth and got left. Meidroth doubled to start the fifth and went nowhere. Five innings in, plenty of hits, nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n
Then everything unraveled.<\/p>\n
Sean Newcomb took over in the fifth and immediately lit the fuse. Bellinger singled, Jasson Dom\u00ednguez doubled, and Caballero drove in two. Then Volpe smoked a liner off Newcomb\u2019s chest at 98.6 mph, sending him to the showers with a contusion. Tyler Davis came in and poured gasoline on the fire: single to S\u00e1nchez, then veteran Paul Goldschmidt obliterated a three-run homer. Suddenly it\u2019s 9-3, and the game is toast.<\/p>\n
Brandon Eisert finally put up a zero in the sixth, but Trevor Richards coughed up a solo shot to Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the seventh, pushing the Yankees into double digits. The inning also brought another scare when Everson Pereira made a highlight-reel catch in center, then hit the wall before crumpling to the ground. He ended up leaving the game, though he walked off on his own.<\/p>\n
Chicago kept swinging, even down big. Braden picked up a two-out single in the sixth, then Colson notched his first career multi-homer game in the eighth with his 19th of the year.<\/p>\n
Tristan Peters kept the line moving by drawing a pinch-hit walk, Quero slapped his third hit, but again, no dice. Sam Antonacci led off the ninth with a homer for some window dressing.<\/p>\n
The maddening part is that the offense actually showed up. Eleven hits, three from Quero, two bombs from Colson. But the Good Guys went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left a small village on base. The bullpen blowup didn\u2019t help, but when you rack up 11 hits and five for extra bases and still trail all night, that\u2019s a special kind of aggravating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox owe the Guardians a fruit basket because after another Bronx beatdown, Chicago is barely clinging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,104359,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-270448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-chicago-white-sox-scores-standings","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}