The gap between the best in the American League and the best the White Sox can offer continued to be painfully obvious in the Kansas City Royals’ 3-2 victory Friday night.
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White Sox: RHP Jeff Samardzija, who served a five-game suspension for his part in an April 23 brawl with the Royals, starts Saturday.
In their last game, the White Sox lost by a margin of one run.
The Royals had grabbed a 3-2 lead, but the White Sox were battling back in the fifth inning. 298 while limiting left-handers to a. 198 average. 460 (29-for-63) with eight doubles, two triples, three home runs and 24 runs scored in the first inning.
Meanwhile, the White Sox are back to their old ways, dropping their first two games to the Tampa Bay Rays and losing 5 out of the last 6 after running off 7 straight wins. Perez is 20-for-54 (.370) with two outs and runners in scoring position after knocking in two runs in that situation Saturday.2. Danks walked Kendrys Morales but survived the sixth inning without further damage, stranding two. “You’ve got five days and you start again, so we’ll go back to work and be ready next time”.
The game remained scoreless until the fifth inning, when former White Sox Alex Rios doubled down the left field line off John Danks, which scored Mike Moustakas from first base on a terrific slide that just barely beat the tag by Tyler Flowers. The Royals have won four of their last six games when scoring more than three runs.
Jeff Samardzija, who gave up 9 runs in 4.2 innings in his last start against the New York Yankees.
The Royals are 9-3 against the White Sox this season.
“We had the big one there in the eighth and had a chance to move it along and score and probably tie it up if it goes right and didn’t get it done”, Ventura said. Hochevar pitched his way out of a major jam, with some help from the White Sox hitters.
“It’s something I’ve been dealing with, ” said the left-handed Eaton, who originally hurt the shoulder on a dive in the outfield in Cleveland two weeks ago.
Franchise History: All-Time Chicago leads 366-344, however Kansas City hold an advantage of games played in the Show Me State of 185-162 including 163-151 at the K.
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Reverting back to the little things and small ball is what the White Sox need to do in order to break out of their latest slump. He is 0-4 with a 5.95 ERA in four games against the Royals. One of the three home runs hit by White Sox rookie Tyler Saladino since he was called up in July came off Royals starter Danny Duffy during the three-game series at Chicago to open the second half….
