And it was all in good fun.
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“When a pitcher gets a hit and gets on base, it gets fun”, Ventura said. Personally, I think he should be the starting shortstop over Jimmy Rollins.
“It was a nice job by those guys and you’ve got to stick with them”, Ventura said.
The White Sox ran out of position players first, leading to relief pitcher Matt Albers batting for himself in the top of the 13th against Mets’ reliever Logan Verrett.
Albers, who was brought in as the seventh White Sox pitcher in the 12th, had drilled Verrett’s pitch into the left-center-field gap for a double. He went into second standing up on a close play, nearly losing his balance on the base. Albers was then able to advance to third on a wild pitch and score on a deep sacrifice fly from Jose Abreu to put the White Sox in front for the first time all day at 2-1. “He was backing out of the box, so I was very surprised that he hit a ball that well”.
Verrett threw a 91 miles per hour belt-high fastball, and the pudgy pitcher sent the ball soaring the opposite way, deep beyond the drawn-in outfielders. This was his first at-bat since 2009.
“Navarro was like, ‘You have the wrong helmet, ‘ and I was like, ‘I’m allegedly left-handed, ‘” Albers said.
In the first extra-inning game at Citi Field since Kansas City won Game 5 of last year’s World Series to take the title, Verrett (3-3) thought he could blow a fastball by Albers (2-4). Closer David Robertson – who pitched two scoreless innings ahead of Albers and almost batted in the top of the 12th – said he has seen Albers take healthy hacks in spring training.
“That hit means nothing if I don’t go out there and get those next three outs”, Albers said. We needed a win, so I went with them down. The 32-year-old faced Kansas City in each of those contests, taking a hard-luck loss on May 21 before limiting the Royals to three runs in 6 1/3 innings in a no-decision Friday.
A fan interferes with Chicago White Sox Melky Cabrera’s (53) catch of James Loney’s foul out during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in New York.
It wasn’t all grand and glorious for Sox pitchers, who, remarkably issued 13 walks. Only the 1953 Reds allowed 13 walks and allowed one or fewer runs since 1913.
Following a seven-inning, one-run effort in his previous start, deGrom (3-1) struck out five of the first nine batters and faced the minimum number of batters through four innings.
Zach Putnam, Dan Jennings (2-1), Nate Jones and David Robertson each worked a spotless inning in relief of White Sox starter Mat Latos, charged with two earned runs and four hits in five innings.
Todd Frazier provided the team’s only other offense with a game-tying solo homer, his 17th, in the seventh inning off Jacob deGrom.
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“We’re not driving anybody in”, Terry Collins said.
