On Saturday, Frazier’s regular bat carried plenty of power. Frazier enters Chicago’s home contest Sunday against the Atlanta Braves having homered in each of the first two games of the series, after hitting only two in his previous 13 contests.Frazier is among the major league leaders with 25 homers, but is hitting just.
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After Saturday’s 5-4 win against the Braves, the White Sox (45-42) have won five of their last seven games and eight of their last 12. “He’s realizing maybe you can shorten it up somewhat and still get it over there”. “I think it can help him”.
Jeff Francoeur finished 1-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs to lead the Braves.
Despite all that, Atlanta easily handled the usually unbeatable Chris Sale, clubbing three home runs and scoring eight runs through five innings en route to an 11-8 win.
Quintana went six innings and yielded four runs on five hits with one walk and five strikeouts.
The escape job made a victor out of Quintana, who said afterward he will take the win without concerning himself with numbers, that like with Frazier, might suggest he hasn’t been as effective as his teammates believe he has. I say this all the time, if I’m swinging outside the zone, I’m going to have some trouble.
“He’s a guy where it’s a work in progress, working with his mentality, trying to get him to grow in that area to allow his talent to come out and work for him”.
White Sox right-hander Nate Jones recorded the final four outs for his third save. Closer David Robertson was unavailable because of a strained muscle in his upper left leg.
A Colombian flag hung outside a suite down the left field line to celebrate the pitching matchup. Things unraveled further in the third, as a sequence of single-single-pop out-balk, single, single, double tallied three more runs for the Southsiders. “Had ’em right where I wanted them – first and second, nobody out”. “Inciarte is an athletic person. I know he’s done it before, so for me I’m just glad I got it over, got us back on the board and back in the lead”. The White Sox allowed a season-high tying 11 runs. Jose Abreu and Cabrera drove in runs with back-to-back singles, and Frazier doubled to right-center field to score Abreu.
The Braves scored four runs in the fifth on three straight doubles to the wall to break a 4-all tie.
Braves: C Tyler Flowers is day to day after he left with a left hand injury in the second inning. Flowers was replaced by A.J. Pierzynski, who received a warm ovation from fans of his former White Sox.
“I think I deserve the All-Star, (but) I don’t have control with that”, Quintana said.
The game marked the first time in big-league history with two Colombian-born starting pitchers.
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“Teheran is my friend and we have a good relationship”, Quintana said. “That’s awesome for us”. – Sox manager Robin Ventura on Carlos Rodon, who went on the disabled list Saturday with a sprained left wrist after slipping and falling prior to Friday night’s game. “If he keeps doing that I know he’s going to (be) an All-Star for sure, eventually”.
