Yankees 3, White Sox 0: Two hits against the 27th man
Bullet-point recap:
*Randy Vásquez was the Yankees’ emergency starter, but the White Sox lineup experienced the crisis. Stepping in for Nestor Cortes, Vásquez allowed just four baserunners over 5⅔ innings for his first MLB win in his second career start.
*Vásquez walked Clint Frazier to start the game, then allowed a single to Eloy Jiménez with two outs in the first, and then he retired 15 in a row, mostly by mundane outs.
*The only other White Sox threat came after two outs in the sixth, when Gavin Sheets singled and Luis Robert Jr. was plunked. That’s when Aaron Boone pulled Vásquez for Ron Marinaccio, and Marinaccio carried the game through eighth without a hit.
*On the other side, Mike Clevionger gave up a pair of homers for the three runs on his tab — a two-run shot by Gleyber Torres in the fourth, and a solo shot by Billy McKinney in the fifth.
*The Torres homer was especially painful, because it looked like Sheets cut down Willie Calhoun trying to stretch a leadoff single into a double. Sheets made a great throw, but the replay showed Elvis Andrus whiffing on the tag, so Calhoun was reinstated at second, and Torres homered on the next pitch.
*Clevinger looked like Clevinger otherwise, throwing 5⅔ innings while only striking out two.
*Aaron Bummer stranded two runners while going four up and four down, and Garrett Crochet worked a clean eighth on 15 pitches.
*Adding injury to insult, Jiménez left the game in the ninth inning after tweaking his leg grounding into what should’ve been an easy double play, except Torres fired the turn into the dugout to keep the inning alive. Temporarily.
*The White Sox split the doubleheader after winning the opener and can claim they took the series, but it would’ve been more satisfying if they reversed the order.
Record: 28-36 | Box score | Statcast
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I realize I’m commenting on the wrong game of the DH but … Sox should seriously consider signing Plesac now that he was DFA by Cleveland. 1. It will give Clevenger another buddy and 2) how can he be worse than Lance Lynn moving forward?
So your idea is to reunite Clevinger and Pleasac? And yes, he is worse than Lance Lynn.
Yup. He is Lynn without the strikeouts.
wtf Plesac is DFAed? What happened? He looked like a solid mid rotation piece only a couple seasons ago?
You answered your own question: “a couple of seasons ago”.
We should not worry about whether Clevinger has a buddy. We should look forward to when Clevinger is not on the roster. Plesac would only increase the number of distasteful White Sox players.
Well it didn’t take long to resolve the issue of finding at-bats for Burger. Yesterday we forgot about the real Plan A: wait a day and someone will come up injured.
7 days ago, the Sox were 12 under and 7.5 games out of first. Today, they are 8 under and 3.5 games out of 1st. The division is so bad that a .500 record could very well win this thing. They really need to do something about Lance Lynn. The rest of the pitching staff looks pretty solid, especially the bullpen. And Timmy and Moncada need to start hitting. If they do, the division is there for the taking.
At this point I might call them the Central favorites. What an awful division. Since April 30th and against a lot of AL Central opponents, the Sox are 21-15 (~95 win pace). If they want to be an actual good team, they need TA and Moncada to hit. But even the status quo might win them the central.
Legit forgot Crochet was on the roster. Thanks for the reminder.
In the last 6 games, the bullpen’s line is:
20IP 9H 2ER 5BB 19K
And they are getting contributions from everyone. The only 2 runs were off Kelly and Liam in the first Yankees game. And they actually should get better as Hendriks and Crochet continue to ramp up and everyone has their set roles. It’s time to get the offense on a roll.
I’m pumping the brakes on 2023 Crochet hype, and I hope the organization does too. Almost all pitchers not named Verlander seem to take about a year to regain their command, either walking more batters or giving up more contact in the meantime. So far Crochet is doing a lot of both.