Then the Chicago third baseman suggested a scuffle with teammate Adam Eaton.
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“We haven’t had a whole bunch of games like this when I haven’t had to manage much”, Baker said. “They’ll say, ‘What are you doing?’ Well, Fraze is trying to shake things up”. The problem is that offense is an immediate need for the White Sox.
Meanwhile, the White Sox are 0-5 in their last five home games, and 1-8 in their last nine interleague home games.
With all of that said though, it’s not time to panic yet. He played in just 49 games last season with the Rockies. The veteran right-hander punched out five and didn’t walk a batter in the contest.
The White Sox designated starting pitcher Mat Latos for assignment. That said, the other Gonzalez (Gio) has been trending down lately.
Washington had scored 31 runs in its last three games, including 10-5 and 11-4 victories in the first two contests against sputtering Chicago. “We wanted a great one”. All three homers were no-foolin’ no-doubters, with Ryan Zimmerman creaming a (slow) fastball into the left-field seats, while Stephen Drew and Danny Espinosa pulled full-count, off-speed pitches into the right-field seats.
Walker earned his first win since April 25 after throwing eight innings of scoreless, three-hit ball. Murphy hoped his game-ending liner to left would fall. “Here you go. I’m going to rear back and just throw, ‘” Gonzalez told reporters, including Washington Post writer James Wagner. It makes for a distinction between his situation and Rose’s: Somebody else has to say whether he can play, even if it has to be with a semiserious carnival franchise like the Marlins. If it works they’ve got a strong front three in the rotation rounded out by Carlos Rodon and Gonzalez.
On Thursday, the White Sox announced that they have signed veteran free agent first baseman Justin Morneau to a one-year contract worth $1 million.
He worked out of a sixth-inning jam with the help of shortstop Tyler Saladino, who threw out Jose Lobaton at the plate on a grounder.
“Maybe he came in here pressing to try to impress”, Chicago Manager Robin Ventura said. It’s what we needed.
Nationals: OF Ben Revere and C Wilson Ramos had scheduled days off.
Morneau is just two seasons removed from winning the national league batting title with Colorado.
Whereas he felt elbow pain with every swing in 2015, Morneau feels good this season.
Okay. I don’t actually want to die, but this seems pretty bad.
Kansas City (30-29) also is reeling.
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The struggles have renewed questions about Ventura’s job security, something GM Rick Hahn was asked about.
