ERA lead vanishes with a pair of homers as Kansas City steals series
MLB.tv would not cooperate tonight, so after about 15 stops and starts, I figured maybe it was trying to tell me there was nothing to see here tonight.
Here's what I did see:
*Chris Sale giving up a seeing-eye single, a chopper single (by Nori Aoki, of course) and a three-run homer by Lorenzo Cain that gave the Royals a 3-1 lead in the second.
*Josh Willingham scoring from first on a bloop single that fell between an extremely deep-playing Avisail Garcia, Adam Eaton and Marcus Semien. The ball got kicked around long enough to allow Willingham to score from first and extend Kansas City's lead to 4-1.
*The White Sox's first run scoring in the second inning on a bases-loaded sac fly by Eaton, after Marcus Semien took a Yordano Ventura fastball off the logo of his helmet for his first HBP. But Alexei Ramirez and Jose Abreu both struck out to miss out on a bigger inning.
*The Sox losing a challenge to end the first inning, as Abreu beat Sal Perez's throw to second on a pitch in the dirt, but lost contact with the bag between his front leg and his back leg while Escobar kept the tag applied.
Here's what I didn't see:
*Alcides Escobar tacking on a solo homer off Sale in the fourth inning.
*Aoki adding a single to go 3-for-3 off Sale. He grounded out in his final at-bat to finish the series a mere 11-for-13.
*The Sox scoring a single run in the eighth on a roped Ramirez single to left, which scored Tyler Flowers.
*The Sox's 3-4-5-6 hitters going 0-for-15 with two walks and seven strikeouts.
*Sale's word of the start: "Sagacious."
Record: 69-83 | Box score | Play-by-play | Highlights
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