Because he could. His fastball has teeth on a warm day; good luck against it in cold temperatures, with wind and occasional snow.
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Gray admitted he wasn’t as “on” as he would have liked, but knew the A’s needed a clutch pitching effort to help stop the early-season bleeding.
Sonny Gray pitched seven strong innings, Mark Canha homered and the Oakland Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 2-1 Wednesday night. Latos represents the first right handed starter the A’s face, as he follows three quality lefties the White Sox rolled out in games 1-3 of the series. First-pitch temperature was 39 degrees.
Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura isn’t too concerned about the quick turnaround his team must endure in returning to the midwest for an afternoon home opener against the Cleveland Indians on Friday. The Indians only got in two of their four scheduled games in against Boston, going 1-1 into the weekend three-game set. “I don’t think you can put a dollar figure on that”. The White Sox were able to tack on four runs in the the ninth to secure the 6-1 win.
Eugenio Suarez hit his first career grand slam and Bruce connected for a three-run shot as the Reds scored eight times in the fourth inning, ruining the big league debut of reliever Daniel Stumpf. With one out, Todd Frazier hit an 0-2 pitch (94) at the thighs to left for a homer to make it 5-1.
After the South-Siders piled on, handing the A’s bullpen its first rough inning – four runs on six hits against Liam Hendriks – in the eighth, the green and gold got on the board.
Chris Coughlan had two hits and drove in a run for the A’s. He allowed four runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
“I wouldn’t wish it on anyone”, he said. “I definitely pictured it going a lot different in my head”. The series brought back memories of a 2015 filled with close contests, as three of the four games were decided by one run. In 185 IP he allowed 79 runs, 71 earned, struck out 195 and walked 53.
The Indians added to it in the second when Jose Ramirez doubled with one out and Davis tripled to right-centre.
Bad move: Ventura chalked up Avisail Garcia getting picked off first base in the second inning partly to “being young”.
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Redesigning the Chicago White Sox’s hats reportedly won’t be Chance the Rapper’s only job with the Major League Baseball club. “He hadn’t seen that from me, so it was available”. It would seem like it was all cloudy and grey. I just looked up and it happened to be in the blue sky. “I was very happy to get back out there and get into a rhythm”.
