As if baseball wasn’t doing enough to rejuvenate the current product, the Chicago White Sox are working on a unique deal that could bring in a whole new audience to a team that desperately needs better attendance numbers. This one had an awfully familiar feel, though.
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Salazar improved to 3-1 with a 2.34 ERA in his last four starts against the White Sox.
“I’ve been excited about this start for a couple weeks now”, Danks said. “I definitely pictured it going a lot different in my head”.
The digital age has given young people a desire for instant gratification, so a slower-paced and more statistics driven sport like baseball no longer gets the respect it deserves. He still wasn’t feeling his best before the game, but he was able to keep the White Sox off the board through five innings despite two Oakland errors.
The Indians have the edge in the season series, 1-0. The strategy nearly worked, with Frazier grounding into what might have been a 6-4-3 double play, but Frazier beat the throw to first, batting in Jackson to tie the score, 3 – 3. Danks ranks seventh in White Sox history with 1,086 strikeouts and sits 11th with 243 starts.
“The very first time I came here, just being back, that was pretty special”, Rollins said. Games like this happen. Latos left after six innings, having given up just the one hit while walking one and striking out two. Countering for the Indians should be right-handers Danny Salazar, Cody Anderson, and Josh Tomlin.
It was 39 degrees at first pitch and snow and rain fell during the day, but the Indians were in their element.
Will the Cleveland Indians or Chicago White Sox walk away with the weekend series when the two meet in a rubber match today at 2:10PM ET?
Dioner Navarro, Tyler Saladino and Melky Cabrera added RBI singles in the ninth. Jose Quintana followed with a no-decision, lasting 5 2/3 innings and surrendering a pair of runs and seven strikeouts. Mike Napoli scored twice. Down 5-0 in the second inning, Avisail Garcia was picked off first base for Chicago, which looked more like the team that lost 86 games last season than one that hopes to contend in the AL Central this year. Carlos Santana (.400 ) went 1 for 4 yesterday with two RBIs. The only hits were a second-inning triple from Davis that eventually turned into a run thanks to a sacrifice fly from Jason Kipnis and a double from Byrd. Tomlin was very effective in just ten starts in 2015 with a 7-2 record and 3.02 ERA.
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There were very few positives for the White Sox in their home opener.
