Then Wright’s knuckleball came alive, Sale had his worst start since April, and Chicago’s seven-game winning streak came to a surprising end. Our job is to keep everybody together and that’s when we play well. On Sale’s wild pitch, Bogaerts to third. The White Sox are trying to sweep consecutive four-game series for the third time in club history after sweeping the Indians over the weekend.
Advertisement
Quintana (6-9) allowed two runs and six hits, striking out three and walking one. Teddy Stankiewicz still projects as a future major-league starter, there’s 2013 first-round pick Trey Ball – there are all kinds of options, all without even dipping into the players the A’s might be intrigued by at the Rookie- and Summer-league levels. “I should have been better for them”. The over is also 7-3 in the Red Sox’ last 10 games overall and is 12-5 in the White Sox’ last 17 games as a road underdog. 500 for the first time since they were 18-18 on May 19. Sale is 1-0 with a 0.89 ERA and 22 strikeouts in his career against the Red Sox.
But Sale struggled with his location, while Wright (4-4) struck out a career-high eight after a suspect start. “It slowed them down”.
Chicago?s starting pitchers are 6-0 with a 2.57 ERA in the last eight games, and only John Danks on Monday failed to go at least six innings.
But the rain did let up, resulting in just a 51-minute delay, and as it turned out the Red Sox were glad it did.
Let’s say the Sox send Johnson (as much as that pains me), Owens, Bradley Jr., Rafael Devers and Manuel Margot to the A’s for Gray – sure, a huge dent would be left in that system, but look at it this way: Boston would still have three bright spot players who are just 22-years-old in Blake Swihart, Xander Bogaerts and Eduardo Rodriguez. 162 against left-handers, pulled a 98 miles per hour fastball to right for an RBI double in the first. The White Sox scored one more run on an Abreu RBI single in the eighth, for the 9-2 lead.
Holt chased Sale with his hit in the sixth.
It’s unclear if he’ll face Pablo Sandoval in this start after the third baseman left Wednesday’s game due to dehydration. It was a scary moment.
A night after retiring newly inducted Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez’s uniform number 45, the Red Sox held a ceremony retiring it again in Spanish.
Red Sox: CF Mookie Betts was placed on the seven-day DL with a concussion after tumbling backward over the bullpen wall Tuesday when he made a catch on the field but had the ball fall out of his glove for an overturned, replay-reviewed homer when he landed.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura is giving right fielder Avisail Garcia the night off in order to work on his hitting.
Advertisement
Much of the damage done against Sale was surprisingly from some of the Red Sox’ lefty bats, including David Ortiz, who finished with three hits.
